White House environment adviser's move to ExxonMobil criticized

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WASHINGTON (AFP) — Opposition Democrats criticized the administration of US President George W. Bush after it emerged a former top White House advisor on environmental issues, Philip Cooney, has taken a job with oil giant ExxonMobil Corp.

The news that Cooney had secured a job with the oil giant came days after he resigned as the chief of staff of the White House Council on Environmental Quality on Friday.

Prior to resigning his White House post, Cooney was involved in a controversy over the deletion of dire climate change warnings in US government reports.

"This is just one more example of how the Bush White House is bought and sold by the very industries it is supposed to regulate," Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said in a statement....