Oil-Friendly Bloggers Get MSM-Type Attention
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
Concerned that the U.S.
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Featured Participatory Project: GlaxoSmithKline, the Diabetes Drug Avandia and Dr. John Buse
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The United States Senate Committee on Finance has released a damning staff report titled The Intimidation of Dr. John Buse and the Diabetes Drug Avandia.
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Olympic Sponsors Go for the Green (Forget Darfur and Tibet)
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
Human rights, environmental, health and labor campaigns around the Beijing 2008 Olympics that seek to change China's behavior are increasingly targeting Olympic sponsors.
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Wal-Mart's Fish Tales
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
"Two years ago, Wal-Mart chief executive H. Lee Scott Jr. outlined ambitious goals to turn the world's largest retailer into a more environmentally friendly company," reports the Washington Post.
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Betting Bigger Bucks on Buzz
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
Spending on word-of-mouth marketing "has increased from $76 million in 2001 to $981 million in 2006 and is expected to grow to approximately $3.7 billion by 2011," according to a report by PQ Media.
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Unlocking One Think Tank's Oily Secrets
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
Why would the John Locke Foundation, a "conservative North Carolina-based think tank" launch a "series of scathing attacks" against the Center for Climate Strategies (CCS), a Pennsylvania-based "nonprofit group of scientists, engineers, business strategists and policy experts who guide states in figuring out how to best reduce greenhouse gas pollution"?
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P&G: Black Is Beautiful, But Buy Beauty Products
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Procter & Gamble, the largest U.S.
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Shell Oil's Flower Claims Wilt Upon Examination
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
The British government's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that an advertisement by Royal Dutch Shell promoting its waste recycling breaks rules with regards to "truthfulness" and "environmental claims." The print ad claimed that Shell has "creative ways to recycle.
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Fire-Safe Cigarette Laws Don't Light Any Fires Under Tobacco Companies
Submitted by Anne Landman on
Most people don't know it, but cigarettes sold in some states are now more dangerous than ones sold in other states. Deaths and damage from cigarette-caused fires have motivated New York, Vermont, California and other states to enact laws in recent years requiring that only fire-safe cigarettes be sold in their states.
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Berman Attacks Teachers
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Corporate-funded attack dog Rick Berman, who has previously atta
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