How the oil and gas industry is trying to hold US public schools hostage
by Leanna First-Arai from Environment | The Guardian on (#5YVQB)
Fossil fuel interest groups are telling New Mexicans: let us keep drilling or the state's education system will collapse
The oil and gas industry wants to play a word-and-picture association game with you. Think of four images: a brightly colored backpack stuffed with pencils, a smiling teacher with a tablet tucked under her arm, a pair of glasses resting on a stack of pastel notebooks, and a gleaming school bus welcoming a young student onboard.
What do all of these have in common?" a 6 April Facebook post by the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association (NMOGA), asked. They are powered by oil and natural gas!"
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