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Even when green, politics make for strange bedfellows.


As in the National Wildlife Federation's decision to support General Motors' bid to receive additional federal government bailout funds.


The show of support for GM by the Reston, Virginia-based environmental group with 4 million members came in a March 24 letter that NWF President and Chief Executive Larry Schweiger sent to President Obama's automobile industry task force.


Referring to GM's federal loan "application" in which the automaker pledged to make development of fuel-efficient, low-emission vehicles such as the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid paramount in the future, Schweiger wrote that "when you consider that GM's plan is a critical step in confronting global climate change, then our involvement is not only expected, it is required."


The nation needs "to make investments in companies like GM who will deliver the technologies critical to achieving that clean energy economy," the letter said.




Schweiger reiterated what he said on March 17 when he and GM Chief Executive Rick Wagoner appeared together on behalf of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a coalition of companies and environmental groups that are lobbying Congress to establish a cap-and-trade system for controlling carbon-dioxide emissions.




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Tags: Alternative Fuels, Fuels & Technologies, General Motors, Hybrid, Plug-ins and Electric, Bailout, General Motors Corp

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Stop the Presses: National Wildlife Federation Supports GM Bailout Bid was originally published by Green Car Advisor. Read the full story by clicking here.