You might imagine there was some culture clash between Pomerance, a Friends of the Earth lobbyist, and MacDonald, a secret military scientist, but they made a powerful team.

你可以想象，地球之友的说客Pomerance和秘密军事科学家麦克唐纳之间会有一些文化冲突，但他们是一个强大的团队。

As Nathaniel Rich describes in his book Losing Earth, an obscure 1978 US Environmental Protection Agency report on coal ended up on the desk of Rafe Pomerance, a lobbyist at the DC offices of Friends of the Earth.

正如纳撒尼尔-里奇在他的《失去地球》一书中所描述的那样，一份不起眼的1978年美国环境保护局关于煤炭的报告最终出现在地球之友华盛顿办事处的说客雷夫-波梅兰斯的桌上。