Rachel Maddow, Ed Markey Discuss Lobbyist Fraudsters
On last night's Rachel Maddow Show, she focused attention on two lobbying firms that have recently taken a turn in the baleful eye of the spotlight: s...
On last night's Rachel Maddow Show, she focused attention on two lobbying firms that have recently taken a turn in the baleful eye of the spotlight: s...
David Roberts | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
Since the summer, greens have had one good break after another. Unlike after An Inconvenient Truth, the latest dramas are not pop culture events, but political achievements inside the Beltway.
Josh Nelson | Posted 10.13.2009 | Green
Companies should only be members of the Chamber of Commerce if they support hyper-conservative anti-regulatory policies across the board, and aren't afraid to show it.
Brendan DeMelle | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green
America's Power Army, the sister organization to the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, sent an email this week to its Astroturf "army" laying out the coal lobby's plans to barrage key Democratic targets.
Brendan DeMelle | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green
Bravo to Pacific Gas & Electric for taking a stand against the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's head-in-the-sand approach to climate change threats.
Bruce Nilles | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
The defections of Duke Energy and Alstom Power are clear signs that the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity has gone too far--even for energy companies like Duke that are heavily invested in coal.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green
IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: California burning; Killing wolves; Recycling the Great Pacific Garbage Patch... PLUS: A Fracture in the Clean Coal Coalit...
Kevin Grandia | Posted 10.18.2009 | Green
Energy companies are beginning to realize that siding with front groups like the coal lobby put them on the wrong side of the clean energy issue.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green
IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Fires rage across California as Hurricane Jimena bears down on Baja; Lights out for incandescent lightbulbs; The Summer of...
Brendan DeMelle | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green
Where is the rogue temporary employee to defend himself and shed light on the way Bonner's sweat-shop pro-coal lobby operation operates?
Brendan DeMelle | Posted 09.21.2009 | Green
Bonner & Associates has a long record of shady Astroturf work on behalf of many polluting industries, pharmaceutical companies and Big Tobacco.
James Hoggan | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green
If Bonner's clients are that desperate to have a voice on Capitol Hill, Congress should call a hearing, inquiring into just how much influence is being peddled through phony organizations.
nytimes.com | CLIFFORD KRAUSS and JAD MOUAWAD | Posted 09.19.2009 | Green
HOUSTON -- Hard on the heels of the health care protests, another citizen movement seems to have sprung up, this one to oppose Washington's attempts t...
Kevin Grandia | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green
Five new forged letters fraudulently sent to Congressmembers have turned up in an ongoing Congressional investigation into the Astroturf campaign laun...
Josh Dorner | Posted 09.07.2009 | Green
There's considerable evidence that these astroturf corporate lobbying operations are also trying to derail clean energy jobs legislation.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 09.06.2009 | Green
Now available on Apple iTunes! Subscribe for FREE here!... IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: 'Cash for Clunkers' -- now with more cash!; 'Astroturfing' -- no...
Carl Pope | Posted 09.04.2009 | Green
What's an organization whose core mission is to create a false impression supposed to do when its hired agents add an additional, unauthorized layer of falsity to the scheme?
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 09.04.2009 | Green
Now available on Apple iTunes! Subscribe for FREE here!... IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: The Democracy of Lobbyists; The forgeries of 'Clean Coal'... PLU...
Josh Nelson | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green
A burst of developments Monday considerably raised the profile of the latest attempt by polluting industries to thwart environmental legislation through fraudulent mailings to Congress.
Kevin Grandia | Posted 07.02.2009 | Green
A tight knit group of major coal players are all working together with their ad firms and spindoctors to convince us that clean coal (like fat-free doughnuts) actually exists.
David Roberts | Posted 06.14.2009 | Green
There was an online debate between me and Joe Lucas, spokesflack for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity. When he received my questions, he ran off like a pansy.
Josh Dorner | Posted 04.04.2009 | Green
How can an industry that refuses to even acknowledge that it's part of the problem be part of the solution?
Brian Hardwick | Posted 03.29.2009 | Green
Why is the coal industry spending tens of millions of dollars on a marketing campaign trying to convince people they're "clean" rather than actually cleaning up their act?
Justin Callaway | Posted 01.14.2009 | Green
Forget the ghost-written pontifications of Joe-the-Plumber, meet Joe the Deacon. That's Joe Lucas, the VP of Communications at the ACCCE, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Energy.
A. Siegel | Posted 01.10.2009 | Green
I was shocked at the latest parody of a set of Christmas Carols courtesy of the coal industry's mouthpiece, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity: the "Clean Coal Carolers" with a set of lyrics that take their truthiness and deception to a whole new level of depravity.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics