Environment

Anger Management

by Sheldon Rampton — March 21, 2009 - 3:00pm

Harvard Law School is hosting seminars in April and November to teach "Public Relations, Communications and Media Strategies for Dealing With an Angry Public." They'll be teaching techniques for dealing with people who "are angry because you've let them down" or who "want to embarrass you publicly," as well as "environmental groups threatening you" over issues such as "the use and disposal of toxic materials." You can visit their website for details.

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Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School, March 2, 2010

It's All Just Business to the Chamber

by Diane Farsetta — March 5, 2009 - 4:32pm

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- along with other industry-funded groups, such as the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace -- is fighting the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), a bill that would make it easier for employees to join labor unions.

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O'Dwyer's PR Daily (sub req'd), March 4, 2009

Patrick Moore on Drugs

by Diane Farsetta — January 21, 2009 - 1:22pm

It is "inevitable that a small amount of ingested pharmaceuticals will eventually show up at trace levels in wastewater," Greenpeace activist turned industry PR consultant Patrick Moore writes in an op/ed.

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The Seattle Times (Washington), January 20, 2009

Industry Promotes Oilsands, but Who Believes Them?

by Diane Farsetta — January 15, 2009 - 8:27am

Canada's oilsands require a much greater use of water and emit roughly three times the amount of greenhouse gases than extraction from "normal" oil fields.

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Edmonton Journal (Canada), January 9, 2009

Influential Energy Agency Blows off Wind Power

by Diane Farsetta — January 14, 2009 - 2:05pm

The International Energy Agency (IEA), which "advises most major governments across the world on energy policy," has systematically underestimated the potential of renewable energy sources like wind and solar, "because of its ties to the oil, gas and nuclear sectors," charges Energy Watch, a group of scientists and politicians. Swiss parliamentarian Rudolf Rechsteiner, a member of Energy Watch, said that IEA was "delaying the change to a renewable world.

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Guardian (UK), January 9, 2009

CORE Shills Still Pushing for Drill, Baby, Drill

by Diane Farsetta — January 6, 2009 - 1:19pm

The industry-funded former civil rights group Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) continues to bash environmentalists, to the benefit of the energy industry.

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Deseret News (Utah), December 31, 2008

Croakwashing?

by Sheldon Rampton — December 11, 2008 - 11:10am

Consumer Reports WebWatch's Beau Brendler is questioning SaveTheFrog.com, a new Web site by the Discovery Channel's Animal Planet and the Clorox bleach company. The site purports to educate people about environmental concerns related to the planetwide disappearance of frogs.

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The Unsponsored Link, December 2, 2008

No Science for You!

by Sheldon Rampton — December 6, 2008 - 9:34pm

CNN has announced that it will cut its entire science, technology, and environment news staff, a move that Christy George of the Society of Environmental Journalists called "disheartening." Other networks have also been slashing science and environmental jobs, including NBC Universal's The Weather Chan

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Columbia Journalism Review, December 4, 2008
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