Friday, December 5, 2014

These Newspapers Are Helping The Oil Industry's Campaign Against Wind Energy

http://mediamatters.org/research/2014/12/02/these-newspapers-are-helping-the-oil-industrys/201743
"Newspapers across the country have been publishing misleading op-eds attacking the federal Production Tax Credit (PTC) for wind energy without disclosing the authors' oil-industry funding. The op-eds, which attack the wind energy policy as "corporate welfare" and "government handouts," ignore the fact that the oil and gas industry currently receives far greater government subsidies and that the PTC brings great economic benefits."