PR Flack Randal Simonetti Sells Conflict to Corporations
Randal Simonetti. This isn't a joke - image via TalkZone.com
In the public relations world, there exists a subset known as crisis communications, or crisis management.
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#UnKoch Campus! U.S. Students Resist the Corporitization of Education
Five Questions on Climate Change for Lisa Nelson, ALEC CEO
From Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes. Universal Press Syndicate, 1993, via Circle Squared.
Written by Kert Davies - former Research Director of Greenpeace USA - crossposted with permission from Climate Investigations Center: Five Questions on Climate Change for Lisa Nelson, ALEC CEO.
Five questions reporters might ask Lisa Nelson, ALEC CEO on climate change and energy:
1. YOUR PERSONAL UNDERSTANDING OF CLIMATE SCIENCE?
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ALEC's Lisa Nelson Doesn't Know ALEC's Climate Change Position
Lisa Nelson, the new CEO of the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, doesn't know her organization's position on climate change.
In a segment on WAMU's Diane Rehm Show, ALEC's Lisa Nelson claimed to not understand the science of climate change, and said, "We as an organization, specifically do not comment on climate change."
Coal Lobbyist Jeff Holmstead Disqualified by Federal Judge in Ameren Pollution Lawsuit
Jeff Holmstead, confronted for interfering with climate change solutions, while trying to catch a cab.
Jeff Holmstead, perhaps the nation's prime example of a revolving door lobbyist, was dismissed by a federal judge as an expert witness in a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency against Ameren Missouri, a coal burning utility.
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Dominion: Dump ALEC! Protesters Confront Polluters on ALEC's Home Turf
Yesterday, about 80 clean energy advocates visited the Arlington, Virginia office of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to protest its dirtywork for polluting companies like Dominion Resources, a major utility in Virginia.
Click here to add your voice: tell Dominion to Dump ALEC!
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Man Who Defrauded EPA calls EPA "Fraudulent" on FOX
If you're John Stossel and you want to host a segment to rail against the US Environmental Protection Agency, who ought you call?
It turns out, a man who was convicted and sentenced to six months in prison for defrauding the EPA!
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PHOTOS: Famed Photographer Alex MacLean’s New Photos of Canada’s Oilsands are Shocking
Photos by Alex Maclean, posted with permission from DeSmog Canada.
Crossposted from DeSmog Canada, written by Carol Linnitt: PHOTOS: Famed Photographer Alex MacLean’s New Photos of Canada’s Oilsands are Shocking
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Coal Lobbyist Jeff Holmstead Confronted for Blocking Global Warming Solutions (VIDEO)
Bracewell & Giuliani's Jeff Holmstead, hailing the escape cab that never showed up.
If you're a coal lobbyist like Jeff Holmstead, getting stuck in an elevator with Greenpeace activists is an inconvenient occupational hazard, especially if you then can't find a cab and cars are honking at your during an uncomfortable conversation about your work to attack pollution laws. See this K Street confrontation for yourself.
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Heartland Institute Climate Change Denier James Taylor PWND on TV
James Taylor, lawyer for The Heartland Institute who claims he's "a scientist by training" because he took college science classes, despite having no degree in science.
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