CLIPPED: The cover-story of the Jan. 21 issue of Rolling Stone, headlined, “You Idiots: Meet the Planet’s Worst Enemies,” profiles “the 17 polluters and deniers who are derailing the efforts to curb global warming.” Among them, dubbed “the arm-twister,” is Dick Gephardt, who is blasted for his work” as a lobbyist for Peabody Energy, the world’s largest private-sector coal company” and specifically for pushing the notion of “clean coal.” (Al Gore‘s rebuttal: “Clean coal is like healthy cigarettes. It does not exist.”) The publication’s Tim Dickenson says Peabody and the Peabody-promoted FutureGen Industrial Alliance have “invested $1.7 million in the Gephardt Group’s services since 2007.”

The article also cites Gephardt’s lobbying for Ameren, “the nation’s fourth-dirtiest utility.”