Environment

Another Filthy Front Group

by Diane Farsetta — April 27, 2007 - 3:38pm

A faux environmental ad campaign is ending. The ads "featured a series of somber models with smudged faces peering over a headline that said 'Face It, Coal is Filthy.' The ads ran in The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and several newspapers serving Capitol Hill, as well as on local buses and in the subway system," reports John Fialka.

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Wall Street Journal (sub req'd), April 27, 2007

Nuclear Industry Pins Hopes on Subsidies

by Bob Burton — April 23, 2007 - 4:13pm

Around the world there are consultants, PR advisers and industry associations hyping nuclear power as a "solution" to global warming. However, they rarely mention the hidden costs. In a recent briefing for Wall Street analysts, the major U.S.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation, April 22, 2007

Jim Sims Flacks for "Clean Coal"

by Sheldon Rampton — April 20, 2007 - 10:56pm

At the "Utah Energy Summit," Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer called for more federal money to develop "clean coal" as an alternative to petroleum and a solution to global warming.

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Grist, April 17, 2007

Spin Doctor Claims Greenwashing Is Dying

by Bob Burton — April 20, 2007 - 5:10am

E. Bruce Harrison, who began his PR career by helping the pesticide industry attack Rachel Carson and her classic 1962 environmental book "Silent Spring," now proclaims that the era of corporate greenwashing is almost over. In an opinion column, he writes that greenwashing in the 1990's "meant the company was painting over bad stuff with good words.

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O'Dwyer's PR Daily (sub req'd), April 19, 2007

New Participatory Project: Adding Examples of Greenwash to SourceWatch

by Bob Burton — April 18, 2007 - 7:22am

In the last few weeks we have fielded inquiries from journalists around the world seeking recent local examples of greenwashing. Given that the article on greenwashing has ranked up amongst the top 50 articles in terms of the number of readers over the last few months, we figure it is time to add some recent case studies. So, if you have an example that springs to mind, here's your chance to add it to our collection.

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Greenwashing Examples for SourceWatch

Multifaceted PR Campaigns Grow on Trees

by Diane Farsetta — March 20, 2007 - 5:05pm

PR Week gave its "Public Affairs Campaign of the Year 2007" award to the Porter Novelli firm and the Abundant Forests Alliance, a front group for the "wood and paper products industry." The campaign was launched in response to "environmental activist" efforts to "change the foresting industry's procurement practices." The campaign's goal was to convince "col

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PR Week (print edition), March 12, 2007

David Outsmarts Mining Goliath

by Bob Burton — March 10, 2007 - 4:10am

A satirical ad the New South Wales Mining Council wants banned from the web

By invoking Australian copyright law, the New South Wales Minerals Council (NSWMC) twice succeeded in shutting down a website that sat

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Sydney Morning Herald, March 5, 2007

Carbon Offsets Challenged

by Bob Burton — February 28, 2007 - 7:06am

The marketing of carbon offsets as a 'solution' to global warming is attracting criticism.

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BBC News, February 21, 2007
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