Coalition of the Drilling
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"The [pro-Arctic National Wildlife Refuge drilling] coalition was industry-driven. That was the exact opposite of how to do it," said Dutko Group lobbyist Stephen Brown.
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Corporations
Excited to Put Lives on the (Bottom) Line
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"Blackwater USA, one of the government's top private [military] contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, leads its 'Blackwater Tactical Weekly' email newsletter this week with an all-caps, all-bold exultation: 'Bush Wins, Four More Years!! Hooyah!!'" reports The Hill.
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Wal-Mart: Low Pay, but Open Communications
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The United Food and Commercial Workers Union is trying to unionize employees at seven Canadian Wal-Mart stores.
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We're Here, We're Peers, Get Used to It
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"More than 20 chemical companies," including Monsanto and Dow Chemical, "have taken the unusual step of issuing subpoenas to five peer reviewers of a scholarly book." The book, "Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution," presents evidence that, "in the late 1960s and early '70s, chemical-industry leaders failed to inform the government about a link that had been found in experiments with rats between e
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Renewables Defeat Fossils in Colorado
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While voters in Colorado backed George W. Bush for president, a ballot initiative requiring the state's power utilities to source 3% of their electricity from renewable energy resources by 2007 and 10% by 2015 was successful.
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Those without Sinclair Casting the First Stone
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The Sinclair Broadcast Group is "the poster child for abuse of the public airwaves," said the director of the media issues organization Free Press. Free Press is challenging the license renewal applications for four Sinclair stations in North and South Carolina, in a petition before the Federal Communications Commission.
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Always Fair and Balanced, Always
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One group isn't too happy about the predicted high voter turnout: retailers. "Election Day is a lousy shopping day," notes USA Today. But "retailers are searching for ways to nudge folks out. ...
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Trying to Buy a Little Extra Insurance
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The insurance giant American International Group fired Qorvis Communications, the PR firm it had hired to help address New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's probe of the insurance industry.
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Chemical Industry Helps Fund EPA Study
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The American Chemistry Council is giving the Environmental Protection Agency $2 million for a study to explore the impact of pesticides and household chemicals on young children. The trade association, which represents nearly 150 chemical and plastics manufacturers and has a $100 million budget, spent more than $2 million on lobbying in 2003.
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Fast Food Companies Are Bad for Your Health Care
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"California's initiative laws, initially passed to thwart corporate influence in politics, now facilitate just the opposite," writes Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser. Proposition 72, "an initiative that would require large and medium-sized business owners to give health benefits to their workers," is opposed by McDonald's, Burger King, Best Buy, Target and other fast food and big box companies.
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