Environment

High-rise Blitz

Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on

Ed McGovern, a Democratic political consultant in the San Francisco Bay area, is helping local developer Glenborough-Pauls as the company fights environmentalists opposed to a controversial condominium project. The PR campaign, calling itself the "Know All the Facts Coalition," is using print advertising and bringing together union representatives, elected officials and government employees in an effort to stymie a petition drive that seeks to halt the project.

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Main Source: 
San Francisco Examiner, July 5, 2004
Topics: 
Crisis Management
Environment

Terrorist Tree-Huggers

Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on

"One of environmentalism's biggest foes - Ron Arnold—is back, peddling the idea that environmentalism breeds terrorism," reports Bill Berkowitz. "Arnold is the same man who once bragged to the New York Times that, 'No one was aware that environmentalism was a problem until we came along.' He's been so successful, says one environmentalist, that he's now 'within striking distance' of checking off every item on his 'wise-use' agenda."

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Main Source: 
TomPaine.com, June 25, 2004
Topics: 
Right Wing
Environment
Rhetoric

Auto Exemption

Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on

"A new series of whimsical public service announcements from the Environmental Protection Agency are lampooning the notion that cars can be made more energy efficient while the ads encourage conservation at home," reports Danny Hakim. The ads depict a wacky home inventor trying to make his car more fuel-efficient by adding a sail and "a helium tank with a bulbous hose ...

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Main Source: 
New York Times, June 25, 2004
Topics: 
Advertising
Environment
U.S. Government

EPA's Election-season Roadshow

Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on

With election season in swing, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Mike Leavitt has taken his show on the road, visiting key swing states to hand out pots of money for environmental projects. "Leavitt's recent wave of swing-state politicking has won his agency the moniker 'Election Protection Agency' in Beltway circles," reports Amanda Griscom.

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Main Source: 
Salon.com, June 25, 2004
Topics: 
Environment
Politics

Toxic Rocket Fuel Is Good for You!

Submitted by Diane Farsetta on

A report for the Urban Water Research Center at the University of California at Irvine (which is "funded in part by contributions from water utilities and other private sources," writes the Wall Street Journal) concluded that the rocket fuel chemical perchlorate is not as dangerous as previously thought.

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Main Source: 
Los Angeles Times, June 12, 2004
Topics: 
Environment

Out on a Limb, Looking for Votes

Submitted by Diane Farsetta on

Bush-Cheney campaign chair Marc Racicot announced "the formation of a natural resources coalition ... to counter environmental groups' grass-roots effort to turn out anti-Bush voters" in Oregon, a swing state. "We believe President Bush has a very strong environmental record," said Racicot.

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Main Source: 
The Oregonian, May 28, 2004
Topics: 
Right Wing
Environment
Rhetoric

Be All That You Can Afford To Be

Submitted by Diane Farsetta on

In a May 11 memo obtained by the Associated Press, the head of the Army's Installation Management Activity command, Major General Anders Aadland, announced that the Army will "take additional risk in environmental programs; terminate environmental contracts and delay all non-statutory enforcement actions" until after October, the start of the 2005 fiscal year.

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Main Source: 
Associated Press, May 27, 2004
Topics: 
Environment
U.S. Government
War / Peace

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