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==CEO Murray, 2010 election donations, and climate denial==
In February 2010, as California Watch reported, Murray Energy’s political committee and executives, including CEO [[Robert Murray]], combined to contribute nearly $25,000 to California GOP Senate candidate [[Carly Fiorina]]’s campaign against [[Barbara Boxer]], the incumbent Democrat. (At the same Ohio fundraiser, Fiorina obtained an additional $39,000 from Midwestern companies that sell coal mining equipment and supplies.)<ref name=lw>Lance Williams, [http://californiawatch.org/watchblog/1-ohio-coal-company-donated-fiorina-also-gave-prop-23 "Ohio coal company that backed Fiorina also gave to Prop. 23"] CA Watch Blog, July 27, 2010.</ref>
In May 2010, Murray Energy donated $30,000 to California’s [[Suspend AB 32 (2010)|Proposition 23]], which would suspend the state’s [[AB 32]] anti-global warming measure until the state economy rebounds from the recession. Another donor, the [[American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity]], a Washington, D.C.-[[lobbying]] group, gave $5,000. Prop. 23 is sponsored by the energy industry, and its biggest booster is the [[Valero Energy]] from San Antonio, Texas.<ref name=lw/>
