As predicted, the British government has launched a post-election push for more nuclear power stations. The Director-General of Energy Policy advised incoming ministers to raise the issue now, as "it is generally easier to push ahead on controversial issues early in a new parliament." The Nuclear Industry Association is lobbying for ten new reactors, "to combat climate change." The Independent reports that one-third of the members of the British Committee on Radioactive Waste Management "have serious conflicts of interest." Four of 12 members are paid consultants to firms employed by the committee. Yet, "Ministers recognise that to gain public support for a pro-nuclear policy, they first have to resolve the problem of what to do with existing nuclear waste." The New York Times reports that nuclear energy will not reduce oil imports, as President Bush has claimed, because less than three percent of oil consumed in the United States goes towards electricity production.

Concerned at rising rates of soldiers' non-combat deaths, the U.S. Army Combat Readiness Center hired two PR firms, Pario and Reingold, to "sell" safety measures. The three-year, $800,000 campaign will include "brochures, web teasers, and movie trailers to play in the Army theater," as well as messages for "the Army's news and television services." In its research, Pario found that "safety messages don't resonate with young people who believe they are invincible, but they are still concerned about the safety of their peers." Pario's CEO said, "Don't let your unit down - that's what resonates. It's safety, but we do it without saying safety." From fiscal year 2004 to 2005, "aviation and off-duty ground accidents in the Army have risen more than 17%."

Former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency head Christine Todd Whitman has opened a consulting firm, the Whitman Strategy Group, "whose first client is a chemical company negotiating with the EPA over the cleanup of arsenic-contaminated soil at a factory near Buffalo, N.Y." The company, FMC Corporation, "is responsible for 136 Superfund sites across the country," "has been subject to 47 EPA enforcement actions," and has, over the past seven years, "spent more than $16.5 million on lobbying." Whitman hasn't worked directly with FMC, but said she would probably help them "improve their image" and gain "access to the people they need to speak to." Eileen McGinnis, formerly "Whitman's chief of staff at the EPA," is "the only partner at Whitman's firm who has worked with FMC" to date. McGinnis called FMC "a good corporate citizen."