The coal barons who control the National Rural Cooperative Electric Association [2] have fallen out [3] with the climate quibblers at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) [4] over the think tank's most recent round of ads that challenge the fight against global warming.
Rural electric co-ops are populated overwhelmingly by companies running coal-fired electrical plants and in the past, they were more likely to be part of the problem [5] when it came to climate change disinformation. But now they're trying to rein in CEI - still something of a laughingstock for its earlier "We Call if Life [6] " ad campaign.
Likely as not, this dispute arose because of copyright challenges that the NRCEA itself faces for using footage of Nobel laureate Al Gore without permission. But in a civilized world, you would have thought that the coal kings and CEI would have settled the issue quietly, as between friends.
Increasingly, it appears, CEI doesn't have any friends.