Environment

ALEC Applauds While Bush Dreams

by Bob Burton — August 5, 2005 - 1:48am

This week George W. Bush spoke at annual conference of the American Legislative Exchange Council which serves as a meeting point for conservative legislators. Bush praised ALEC because of its "results-oriented nature".

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White House, August 3, 2005

EPA's Inconvenient Report

by Sheldon Rampton — August 4, 2005 - 3:09am

"With Congress poised for a final vote on the energy bill, the Environmental Protection Agency made an 11th-hour decision Tuesday to delay the planned release of an annual report on fuel economy," reports Danny Hakim.

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New York Times, July 28, 2005

Exxon Wants To Save the Tigers

by Laura Miller — July 19, 2005 - 7:48pm

Recognizing Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Washington, ExxonMobil ran a quarter-page ad on the op-ed page of Monday's New York Times headlined "Saving Tigers." According to Exxon's website, the company has given more than $9 million since 1995 to efforts to save endangered tigers.

EPA Seeks to Protect Its Own Image

by Laura Miller — July 18, 2005 - 7:02pm

"The Office of Research and Development at the Environmental Protection Agency is seeking outside public relations consultants, to be paid up to $5 million over five years, to polish its Web site, organize focus groups on how to buff the office's image and ghostwrite articles 'for publication in scholarly journals and magazines,'" the New York Times reports.

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New York Times, July 18, 2005

Judge Says Loggers SLAPP Suit "Embarrassing"

by Bob Burton — July 18, 2005 - 5:15am

Australian forestry giant Gunns has suffered a major setback in its $A6.3 million SLAPP suit against 20 environmentalists and environmental groups. Last December Gunns filed a 216-page statement of claim against the environmentalists and then, earlier this month, submitted a redrafted 360-page version.

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The Age July 18, 2005

Sierra Club: Is Selling Ford Selling Out?

by John Stauber — July 12, 2005 - 11:15pm

Readers of the Sierra Club's magazine know it runs glossy full-page ads from car companies selling hybrids.

Greasing the Wheels of Government

by Diane Farsetta — July 11, 2005 - 11:57am

"Consultants paid by the oil and gas industry have been volunteering to work for the Bureau of Land Management's Vernal [Utah] office for the past five months, expediting environmental studies to keep pace with a glut of drilling requests in the region," reports the Salt Lake Tribune.

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The Salt Lake Tribune (Utah), July 9, 2005

Unions' And Bosses' Lawyers Unite

by Bob Burton — July 8, 2005 - 5:36am

Australian Financial Review legal editor Marcus Priest notes that in "what some unionists are calling an unholy alliance," the giant Australian forestry company Gunns is "using industrial tort avenues employers have traditionally used against workers engaged in industrial action" against 20 environmentalists and environmental groups.

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Australian Financial Review (sub. req'd.), July 8, 2005

Jeepers, Creepers, What'd You Do to NEPA?

by Diane Farsetta — July 7, 2005 - 11:31am

The 35 year-old National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which allows public input on environmental reviews of federal actions, "is facing strong challenges from the Bush administration, Congress and business interests who say the law has been holding up progress." The energy bill passed by the U.S.

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Los Angeles Times, July 7, 2005

Ethics Adviser Dumps On Shell

by Bob Burton — July 6, 2005 - 4:04am

Following the execution of Nigerian environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa and its attempt to dump the Brent Spar oil platform in the ocean, Shell appointed a dozen people to oversee its image overhaul. A decade later, Simon Longstaff, one of Shell's twelve and the director of Sydney's St. James Ethical Centre, lashed out at Shell. "The process we went through was thorough and exhaustive, but what concerned me was seeing the marketing arm of the company turn it into a PR exercise as soon as we had finished," he said.

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Australian Financial Review (sub. req'd.), July 6, 2005
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