Organized Campaigns to Cyber-Bully Climate Scientists?
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Progress Energy Dumps Pro-Coal Front Group
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Oil-Funded Gov Joins with Oil-Funded Front Group to Appeal Greenhouse Gas Regs
Although it seems a bit like a dog-bites-man story, the New York Times reported that Texas Governor and 2012 presidential aspirant Rick Perry (R-TX) has joined with the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) in challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to regulate carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. As the Center for Media and Democracy has documented on our SourceWatch site, CEI has been well-funded by Exxon and other oil companies, and is one of the main U.S. corporate front groups fighting efforts to address global warming and regulate the industry that feeds it funding. But, the courts are now stacked in Perry's favor, as noted below.
Oil Money Funds Climate Deniers and Attacks on Climate Scientists
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The multinational energy company ExxonMobil has given hundreds of thousands of British pounds in grants to free-market, anti-climate change think-tanks to wage a coordinated, orchestrated campaign against climate change science, and undermine public acceptance of the idea that global warming has a man-made component. The campaign includes attacks against scientists who support the idea that climate change in man-made.
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The "AB 32 Implementation Group": A Wolf in Green Clothing
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In 2006, the California legislature passed AB 32, the "Global Warming Solutions Act," which requires the state to bring its greenhouse gas emissions down to 1990 levels by the year 2020.
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Reflections on COP15, Looking Ahead to COP16
COP15 was amazing: so many intelligent and soulful characters from all over the world, cooperating shoulder to shoulder, all on the same quest--and on a level of importance never seen before in human history. I felt lucky to be there, and the buzz of history-in-the-making was palpable.
San Francisco's Toxic Sludge - It's Good for You!
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Fifteen years ago, CMD's book Toxic Sludge Is Good for You! first exposed the hidden government and industry PR campaign greenwashing toxic sewage sludge as "biosolids," an invented PR euphe
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Energy Lobbyists Help Draft Polluter-Friendly Amendment
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Juliet Eilperin reports that "two Washington lobbyists, Jeffrey R. Holmstead and Roger R.
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COP15, Ways to Get More Specific for Change
Copenhagen, Out of the Frying Pan, Pt. 6
Deal or No Deal at COP15?
Copenhagen, Out of the Frying Pan, Pt. 5
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