Fenton Communications is helping the Rainforest Action Network respond to a conservative non-profit group's claims that RAN illegally uses tax-deductible donations to fund its advocacy campaigns. In a move that could begin what the Wall Street Journal called a "war of the non-profits," Washington, D.C.-based Frontiers of Freedom, which bills itself the "antithesis" of the green movement, has urged the Internal Revenue Service to revoke RAN's tax-exempt status.

Former vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro is back in the news as a celebrity spokesperson for thalidomide, the infamous drug that was taken off the market after causing more than 10,000 severe deformities in children whose mothers took it for morning sickness. Thalidomide is now being prescribed to combat multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer from which Ferraro suffers. Dan Klores Communications handled the PR for Ferraro and the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.

President Bush's roster of nominees for key environmental policy jobs is brimming with lawyers and lobbyists for the very industries these officials will oversee in their government posts.