The environmentalist Sierra Club announced today that they would be hiring Al Armendariz as a top official for their Beyond Coal campaign, which aims to get people to stop using the black, lumpy stuff.

If the name rings a slight bell for political junkies, that’s because Armendariz was the star of a recent controversy back at his previous job with the Environmental Protection Agency.

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