Nicole Allen of The Atlantic covered the Toomey/Sestak race in her post yesterday on “climate on the campaign trial.” In writing on the race and the implications of the candidates’ stances on energy, a true gem of a quote slipped in, attributed to Heather Taylor-Miesle of the “Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Action Fund“:

“You couldn’t have a better story to tell here,” added Taylor-Miesle. “In Pennsylvania, they’re really benefitting from lots of green jobs. My dad’s working on a natural gas pipeline there as we speak.” [emphasis added]

Really? The new natural-gas pipelines in Pennsylvania will be taking gas from the Marcellus Shale — recently under attack by the NRDC itself for supposedly polluting water supplies! So I’m curious how, exactly, a natural-gas pipeline counts as a “green job” or, for that matter, has anything to do with government, instead of new technologies developed by the vilified oil and gas industry.