Exxon: Still Fronting After All These Years
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
An old advertisement for Exxon (then Esso)
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Environment
Deleting (or Defeating?) Climate Change Language
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U.S. representatives "are trying to soften the message" of a climate change declaration to be issued at the June summit of the Group of Eight (G-8) industrial countries. G-8 draft documents obtained by the Washington Post show that the U.S.
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Greenwashing, or "Positioning Environmentalism"
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
In public relations, "the most striking single thing is the rapid growth in which companies are positioning or repositioning their environmentalism," said Burson-Marsteller's managing director of corporate responsibility.
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Herr Stauber In Der Spiegel
CMD Founder and Executive Director John Stauber has been in Germany, Austria and Belgium for the past two weeks speaking in major cities and discussing the publication of "Toxic Sludge Is Good For You" in German. On May 16 Vienna's daily paper Der Standard ran an interview with Herr Stauber that can be read in German by searching his name on their website. He was previously interviewed by Nils Klawitter for the German magazine Der Spiegel, and a translated portion of the interview is below. (Thanks to Orange-Press, publishers of the German edition of Toxic Sludge Is Good for You, for the translation.) If you would like to read the German interview in its entirety, please go to: http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,481658,00.html
Shell Drills for Support in Virginia
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As part of its crisis management strategy, in response to public anger over high gas prices and record-breaking profits for the oil industry, Shell Oil president John Hofmeister recently spoke to a small invite-only group in Richmond, Virginia.
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Shut Up and Heat
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A new media policy restricting U.S. government scientists from speaking to the media is drawing fire from the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Government Accountability Project.
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Alaska Government Drills for ANWR Lobbyists
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Not-So-Revolutionary PR
Submitted by Bob Burton on
In an interview with LobbyWatch, British journalist George Monbiot reviews the network of the key players from Living Marxism.
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Another Filthy Front Group
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
A faux environmental ad campaign is ending. The ads "featured a series of somber models with smudged faces peering over a headline that said 'Face It, Coal is Filthy.' The ads ran in The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and several newspapers serving Capitol Hill, as well as on local buses and in the subway system," reports John Fialka.
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Nuclear Industry Pins Hopes on Subsidies
Submitted by Bob Burton on
Around the world there are consultants, PR advisers and industry associations hyping nuclear power as a "solution" to global warming. However, they rarely mention the hidden costs. In a recent briefing for Wall Street analysts, the major U.S.
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