Global Warming

Glover Park Group Fights for (and Against) Climate Protection

by John Stauber — March 31, 2008 - 4:30pm

"Former vice president Al Gore (through his Alliance for Climate Protection) will launch a three-year, $300 million campaign aimed at mobilizing Americans to push for aggressive reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, a move that ranks as one of the most ambitious and costly public advocacy campaigns in U.S. history. ...

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Washington Post, March 31, 2008

EPA's Glacial-Speed Approach to Global Warming

by Anne Landman — March 28, 2008 - 2:18pm

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen L. Johnson dismissed his own agency's findings that greenhouse gases threaten the public.

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Los Angeles Times, March 28, 2008

BP Greenwashes Tar Sands Exploitation

by John Stauber — March 27, 2008 - 8:13am

The oil giant BP has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on PR, greenwashing its image to be perceived as better than Exxon, Shell and others. But "a recent change in corporate policy threatens that green-friendly image," reports Michael Moreci.

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In These Times, March 19, 2008

It's Not Your Grandfather's Oil Industry

by Diane Farsetta — March 24, 2008 - 3:04pm

The oil industry's "nationwide publicity drive to clear up what it calls 'common and surprising misperceptions'" about its record-breaking profits continues.

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Rocky Mountain News (Colorado), March 22, 2008

Introducing the coalSwarm

by Judith Siers-Poisson — March 21, 2008 - 4:19pm

Topics: Activism, Front Groups, Global Warming, Corporations, Democracy, Environment, Lobbying, Politics, Public Relations, Science, Social Justice, U.S. Government

In the spring of 2007, when author Ted Nace set out to profile the emerging No New Coal Plants movement for Orion magazine, he had no idea that the assignment would turn into more than just a single article.

Global Warming Hurts Our Feelings

by Sheldon Rampton — March 16, 2008 - 5:05pm

"A pair of agriculture groups has temporarily suspended about $1.5 million in grants to the University of Minnesota to protest a controversial study by U scientists earlier this month about biofuels and global warming," reports Tom Meersman.

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Minnesota Star Tribune, February 25, 2008

Featured Participatory Project: Who Sponsored and Spoke at Heartland's Climate Conference?

by Bob Burton — March 11, 2008 - 9:00pm

A week ago the Exxon-funded think tank, the Heartland Institute, hosted what it dubbed The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change. In his opening remarks, Heartland's President Joseph L.

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SourceWatch

Fighting Global Warming on the Fly

by Judith Siers-Poisson — March 11, 2008 - 5:20pm

Less than a year ago, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was being lauded as the cover boy for NewsWeek's issue about how to battle global warming. But critics are calling attention to the governator's daily commute -- Sacramento to Los Angeles and back -- by airplane.

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Los Angeles Times, March 7, 2008

The Money Behind the Climate Change Skeptics Conference

by Anne Landman — March 6, 2008 - 1:56pm

An article in the Independent links funding for the "2008 International Conference on Climate Change" held in New York earlier this month to tobacco and oil companies.

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The Independent (UK), March 3, 2008

Picking Losers

by Bob Burton — March 6, 2008 - 3:19am

The American Enterprise Institute, one of the premier U.S. think tanks, has presented former Australian Prime Minister John Howard with the Irving Kristol Award for 2008.

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American Enterprise Institute Media Release, March 5, 2008