Endangered Science
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
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Environment
Possible Recess Appointments to Henhouse for Three Industry Foxes
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
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Multifaceted PR Campaigns Grow on Trees
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
PR Week gave its "Public Affairs Campaign of the Year 2007" award to the Porter Novelli firm and the Abundant Forests Alliance, a front group for the "wood and paper products industry." The campaign was launched in response to "environmental activist" efforts to "change the foresting industry's procurement practices." The campaign's goal was to convince
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PR Week (print edition), March 12, 2007
David Outsmarts Mining Goliath
Submitted by Bob Burton on
A satirical ad the New South Wales Mining Council wants banned from the web
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Carbon Offsets Challenged
Submitted by Bob Burton on
The marketing of carbon offsets as a 'solution' to global warming is attracting criticism.
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Pombo's Clear-Cut Path to the Revolving Door
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
"Former [U.S.] House Resources Committee Chairman Richard Pombo has joined a lobbying and public relations firm that backed his attempts to rework the Endangered Species Act and open the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve to oil drilling," reports Josh Richman.
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Court Rejects Legal Bid to Block Forest Protest
Submitted by Bob Burton on
Forestry Tasmania, a Tasmanian government-owned forestry agency, lost a bid to get a court order preventing an environmental group from organizing a rally against logging operations.
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Texas Coal Showdown Spawns Multiple Front Groups
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
"The politics of Texas power and pollution have moved suddenly into the living rooms of millions of Texans," over "electric companies' plans to build 16 coal-burning plants using conventional technology that pollutes more than a newer coal system." In addition to lobbying, interested parties are launching ad campaigns and websites and forming new "pressure groups." Campaigning for the coal plants are: Texans for Affordable and Reliable Power, which receives funding from the Dallas-ba
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GE Casts Diesel Cloud Over Own Green Marketing Campaign
Submitted by Jonathan Rosenblum on
General Electric's current "green" marketing campaign ads include a train engine "chugging through pristine rural sett
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Monsanto Mulled PCB "Smokescreen"
Submitted by Jonathan Rosenblum on
The United Kingdom's Environment Agency has opened an investigation into toxic groundwater contamination in south Wales after examining evidence that Monsanto knowingly contracted to dump thousands of tons of waste in British landfill sites. In 1968, a Monsanto committee secretly considered disposal options for Aroclor, a trade name for cancer-causing PCBs, and wrote: "[I]t will be impossible to deny the presence and persistence of Aroclors. ...
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