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Few Scientists Warm to Skeptics Conference

by Diane Farsetta — March 5, 2008 - 2:04pm

The Heartland Institute's "2008 International Conference on Climate Change" in New York was "a sort of global warming doppelganger conference, where everything was reversed," reports Juliet Eilperin.

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Washington Post, March 4, 2008

Anti-Taxation with Tobacco Representation

by Anne Landman — March 5, 2008 - 11:56am

R.J. Reynolds (RJR) may be funding a South Carolina anti-tax group to oppose a cigarette tax for health care. The Cover Carolina Collaborative, a group of health care organizations, is proposing that the state's tax be raised to $1.00 a pack, to help cover uninsured employees. South Carolina currently has the lowest cigarette tax in the nation, at seven cents a pack.

Main Source: 
The State (South Carolina), March 3, 2008

Coal Lobby Gets Down and Dirty

by Bob Burton — March 5, 2008 - 5:52am

"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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Salt Lake Tribune, March 1, 2008

Coal on the Ropes: Part One

by Judith Siers-Poisson — February 27, 2008 - 2:49pm

The coal industry is on the ropes, but is working hard to ensure that regardless of who wins in the November elections, coal will come out on top.

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Los Angeles Times, February 27, 2008

Having His Cake and Eating It Too

by Sheldon Rampton — February 25, 2008 - 4:50pm

The February 2008 newsletter of the Obesity Society supports a new rule from the New York City's health commisssioner requiring restaurants to publish information about the number of calories in their food, but apparently the society's president, Dr. David B. Allison, hasn't gotten the word.

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New York Times, February 16, 2008

Fake vs. Fakes

by Sheldon Rampton — February 21, 2008 - 7:48am

In a Youtube video, "Heidi Cee" lamented the loss of her Coach handbag, compared product counterfeiting to ter

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Ben Kessler's blog, February 19, 2008

SourceWatch Key to Inquiries Launched into Canadian Climate Skeptics' Election Activities

by Bob Burton — February 20, 2008 - 4:10am

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.

Main Source: 
Canwest News Service, February 17, 2008

When "Social Values" Means Smoking

by Anne Landman — February 18, 2008 - 12:56pm

When the dangers of smoking first became widely known, cigarette companies secretly hired biomedical scientists to create confusion.

Main Source: 
New Scientist (sub req'd), February 16, 2008
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