Brown and stealth pollutution?

The Charleston City Paper's Will Moredock offers a hard-hitting column against our challenged Congressman, Henry Brown, by suggesting he is aiding and abetting polluters of various ilk. He chastises Brown for encouraging drilling of oil off the South Carolina coast in his April 12 column:

"The oil and gas industries and their allies are working night and day — and very undercover — to lift this moratorium and open our coast to oil and gas exploration. And in doing so, they could be aided and abetted by none other than Charleston's own 1st District Congressman, Henry Brown (R-S.C.).

"As Brown told the Chicago Tribune last October, "If [oil and gas drilling] is OK for Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas, it should be OK for other states ... We are in an energy crisis and we should do everything we can to become more energy-independent — including offshore drilling."

"Curiously, he did not say that to any local media."

What in the world is poor Henry thinking? (Or is that an oxymoron?)