This story keeps getting better and better. Greenpeace seems to have evidence that all of this was in violation of Senate rules. Their Executive Director Phil Radford has fired off a letter to Senator Schumer to this effect.

Here is the letter:

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Here is the sign on the front door of the event, which prominently displayed API and Newsweek logos:

Here is the flyer the American Petroleum Institute distributed at the event, claiming the oil industry is responsible for 9.2 million jobs:

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Here is the event’s program:

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Associated Press:

A Democratic senator is calling on the Obama administration to reject an expected request for economic stimulus money for a $1.5 billion West Texas wind energy project.

The joint venture between U.S. and Chinese energy companies will be financed largely by China’s export-import bank.

But Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., says the project organizers reportedly are planning to ask for 30 percent financing — or $450 million — from the federal stimulus program designed to produce U.S. jobs.

Yet, all of the 240 wind turbines on 36,000 acres in West Texas will be made in a plant in China, producing Chinese jobs. So, Schumer is writing Energy Secretary Steven Chu, urging the administration to reject a request for a federal grant should one arrive.

Senator Schumer’s letter to Secretary Chu is below.

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