Minorities Targeted with Misinformation on Obama Carbon Plan, Groups Say

The National Black Chamber of Commerce launched a PR campaign against the Clean Power Plan, fueled by ties to oil and gas industry, critics contend.

After the Environmental Protection Agency released its groundbreaking carbon regulations last week, opponents worked to fill the airways and newspaper opinion pages with the message that the Clean Power Plan would cost minority communities millions of jobs and increase their poverty levels by more than 25 percent.

The claims were the resurgence of a campaign put forward two months ago by the National Black Chamber of Commerce.  The Washington, D.C.  group describes itself as a "nonprofit, nonpartisan, nonsectarian organization dedicated to the economic empowerment of African American communities," but in fact has strong financial ties to the oil and gas industry.
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"The NBCC claims have been fact-checked and proven inaccurate multiple times," said Dave Anderson, energy campaign organizer for the Union of Concerned Scientists, a scientific and environmental advocacy group.  "Most journalists see that, but the group is using newspapers' opinion sections to get around the fact-checking of reporters."

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