Coal Lobby Gets Down and Dirty
Submitted by Bob Burton on
"It's our job to keep coal at the table. It's not there now," said Bob Henrie, a principal in the Salt Lake-based advertising and public relations firm R&R Partners.
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GE Plans European Greenwashing Blitz
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General Electric's power industry division, GE Energy, is set to launch a greenwashing blitz in five European countries, including the United Kingdom.
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Up, Up and Away with Greenwashing
Submitted by Judith Siers-Poisson on
Virgin Atlantic has flown a jumbo jet from London to Amsterdam fueled by bio fuel derived from a mixture of Brazilian babassu nuts and coconuts. But is this really green progress, or just greenwashing? Virgin Atlantic's head, Richard Branson, called the flight a "vital breakthrough" for the airline industry.
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Coal on the Ropes: Part Two
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David Roberts of Grist.org writes in the Nation, "So there you have it: just in the past week, elite opinion against coal has accelerated, two major coal projects have run into embarrassments, and an independent report has confirmed that things are only going to get worse." Power consulting firm Wood MacKensie says that "the rate of coal plant cancellations accelerated during 2007 to the point that more than 50% of the new coal capacity announced since 2000 has now been canceled." On to
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Coal on the Ropes: Part One
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The Truth About Lying
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
Gawker.com, the media gossip blog, recently had a testy exchange with Richard Edelman, CEO of the giant Edelman public relations firm, after Gawker published an item which quoted an unnamed Edelman employee who reportedly advised a client, "Sometimes, you just have to stand up there and lie.
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Great Lakes Study Suppressed
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"For more than seven months, the nation's top public health agency has blocked the publication of an exhaustive federal study of environmental hazards in the eight Great Lakes states, reportedly because it contains such potentially 'alarming information' as evidence of elevated infant mortality and cancer rates," reports Sheila Kaplan.
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Controversy Grows over Canadian Skeptics Ad Campaign
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The fallout from the SourceWatch profile on the Canadian global warming skeptics group, Friends of Science (FoS), continues to grow.
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SourceWatch Key to Inquiries Launched into Canadian Climate Skeptics' Election Activities
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A Canadian global warming skeptics group, Friends of Science (FoS), is facing several investigations into a radio advertising blitz it ran in the 2006 election campaign, which criticized the then-Liberal government's support for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Funding for FoS came in part from a University of Calgary trust account.
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Are Hybrids Putting the Brakes on Greener Options?
Submitted by Judith Siers-Poisson on
French researchers are concerned that consumer demand for hybrid cars, fueled by advertising and PR, is slowing down the development of genuinely sustainable green auto technologies.
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