This news back home — Philip Cooney has a new job. On Friday Cooney resigned as chief of staff for President Bush’s environmental policy council just two days after it was revealed that he had edited government scientific reports in order to downplay the effects of global warming. Cooney came under intense criticism because of his ties to the oil industry — before coming to the White House, Cooney worked as a lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute. Now, Cooney is going back to his roots. The New York Times reports today that he has been hired by oil giant ExxonMobil. A recent investigation by Mother Jones magazine found that ExxonMobil has spent at least $8 million funding a network of groups to challenge the existence of global warming.