Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music)
Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.
Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business
American University's public affairs program is under fire after publicly thanking a controversial grassroots lobbyist, according to the National Jour...
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business
The House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming has expanded its investigation into the lobbying activities of the American Coali...
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
The National Journal examines the growing but controversial practice of so-called grassroots lobbying -- a segment of the industry that remains unregu...
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business
The Associated Press reports a coal group and two lobbying contractors knew that letters sent to lawmakers were fraudulent before the vote on climate...
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.13.2009 | Home
The House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming will investigate a string of fraudulent letters addressed to lawmakers that criti...
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 09.24.2009 | 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.
Jenna Staul | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business
Another forged letter criticizing the House's climate change bill can be traced to the lobbying firm working for the American Coalition for Clean 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...
Brendan DeMelle | Posted 10.18.2009 | Green
Duke Energy announced today that it has left the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, the dirty coal front group lobbying against Congressional action on climate change.
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 10.16.2009 | Green
This latest evidence of insincerity and misinformation adds to a growing heap of scandals plaguing the coal industry's attempts to weaken action on climate and energy security.
Brendan DeMelle | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green
The clear solution: end the astroturf loophole in the Lobby Disclosure Act
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.
John DeCock | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green
A prolonged, determined effort is going to be necessary to end the life of King Coal.
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...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 09.13.2009 | Green
In Today's Audio Report: Another win for coal companies; of green roofs & red tomatoes...PLUS: Town Hall Follies, now with Clean Coal!
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 01.09.2009 | Green
Nothing like a Christmassy marketing campaign from the coal lobby to get you in the holiday spirit.
Kevin Grandia | Posted 11.24.2008 | Green
The coal industry accounts for 25% of greenhouse gases in the US. If they don't clean up, coal will be one of the biggest industries penalized under a new cap and trade program proposed by both presidential candidates.
Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green