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Unreliable Sources 2: How the Media Help the Kochs & ExxonMobil Spread Climate Disinformation

Elliott Negin | Posted 05.15.2013 | Media
Read More: Pharmaceutical Industry, Union of Concerned Scientists, Koch Brothers, Drug Industry, Exxon Mobil, Koch Industries, Climate Change, Tobacco, Global Climate Coalition, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Green News, Green Energy, Media News
Elliott Negin

Part 2: To understand just how the fossil fuel industry has been laundering climate disinformation, there are few better places to start than with the Washington, D.C.-based Competitive Enterprise Institute.

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The Reagan Fetish

Betsy Rosenberg | Posted 08.29.2012 | Green
Read More: Mark Levin, Koch Brothers, Rush Limbaugh, Ronald Reagan, Exxonmobil, Anne Gorsuch, : Michael Moore, Angie Dickinson, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Cap-and-Trade, Paul Ehrlich, James Watt, Margaret Thatcher, Jimmy Carter, Glenn Beck, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Green News
Betsy Rosenberg

I've learned from fifteen years in the eco-trenches that the fight to protect our planet from pollution is more than just a fight against ExxonMobil or Charles and David Koch; it's ultimately a fight against the Reagan legacy.

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'Oh, She's a Porn Star, OK!' My Night at a Mad Men-Themed Gala for Libertarians

Death Race | Posted 08.18.2012 | Politics
Read More: Cei Mad Men Party, Wisconsin Recall, Fred Smith, Libertarians, Washington Think Tanks, CEI Party, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Politics News
Death Race

It's about an hour into the after-party when someone in the middle of the room, near a giant projector screen playing vintage television ads, begins banging his glass and yelling for everyone to be quiet.

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Corporate Hyperbole

Edward Flattau | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Spruce Coal Mine, Green News, Alternative Energy, Mining, Alternative Fuels, Spruce Mine, Epa, Cei, Mountaintop Mining, Perry Yeatman, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Green News
Edward Flattau

A guilty verdict should be rendered against the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) for misleading hyperbole associated with its defense of destructive mountaintop-removal mining.

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Consider Externalities When Discussing Alternative Energy

Edward Flattau | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Energy, Lieberman, Energy Industry, Wind Energy, Alternative Energy, Cei, Joe Lieberman, Fossile-Fuels, Coal, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Green News
Edward Flattau

The price of an energy source should reflect not just its production costs but its impact on health, natural resources, and aesthetics. Without those inclusions, fossil fuels will be enjoying an economic advantage they don't deserve.

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The Diseased Security of Denial

Shan Wells | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Pat Michaels, Climategate, Cato Institute, University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, Michael Mann, Green News, Wall Street Journal Climategate, New York Times Climategate, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Denver News
Shan Wells

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New York Times 'Climategate' Editorial a Reminder That Media Have Failed Miserably Covering Climate Science

James Hoggan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Pat Michaels, Climategate, Michael Mann, Cato Institute, University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Wall Street Journal Climategate, New York Times Climategate, Green News
James Hoggan

Why did the media that covered Climategate not question the fact that the allegations about the integrity of climate science was coming from a network of climate deniers and oil-industry funded skeptic groups?

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Green News Report -- April 1, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Fracking, Epa, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Climategate, Coal, Clean Air Act, Climate Change Legislation, Barack Obama, Mcdonalds, Offshore Drilling, Phil Jones, Senate, BRAD BLOG, Green News, Oil, Natural Gas, Extreme Weather, Global Warming, China, Solar Power, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Clean Energy Legislation, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Another reco...

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Green News Report -- March 30, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Epa, West Virginia, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Whales, Climategate, Coal, Obama Health Care, Mountaintop Removal, Clean Energy Race, Earth Hour, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Tea Party, Coal Mining, Solar Power, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Rio Tinto, Toxic Water, Ipcc, Carbon Emissions, Green Building, World Meterological Organization, Energy Policy, Rajendra Pachauri, Toxic Chemicals, BRAD BLOG, Pew Research Center, Sarah Palin, Green News, Koch Industries, Black Lung, China, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: China beats ...

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President Obama Says "Let's Go," Special Interests Conjure Up New Distortions to Say No

Sen. John Kerry | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Climate Change, National Security, Barack Obama, John Kerry, Truthfightsback, Pentagon, Congress, World Bank, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Politics News
Sen. John Kerry

On the biggest issue we can deal with in this Congress, President Obama just weighed in big-time, pounding the bully pulpit to pass comprehensive climate and energy legislation. But, ahh, Washington.

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New Poll Results Reveal the Impact of Decades-Long Climate Confusion Campaign

James Hoggan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Climategate, Climate Change, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Climate Deniers, Ipcc, Green News, Sustainability, American Petroleum Institute, Yale Project on Climate Change, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), Competitive Enterprise Institute, Himalayan Glaciers, Global Warming, George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication, Glaciergate, Green News
James Hoggan

Fifty-seven percent of Americans polled believe climate change is happening, compared with a figure of 71 percent in October 2008, a 14 point drop.

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Treasury Memo Hysteria Shows Media Incapable of Screening Out Junk

David Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Obama Administration, Allowance Auctions, Cap and Trade, Treasury Department, Glenn Beck, Media, Chris Horner, Climate Change, Cei, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Green News
David Roberts

Last week, a CBS blogger reported a completely and utterly misleading figure on cap-and-trade that spread like wildfire from right-wing blogs, to Glenn Beck, and even the Washington Post.

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Why Is CBS Lying About Climate Change?

James Boyce | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: CBS News, Clean Energy, Barack Obama, Exxon Mobil, Obama Administration, Declan McCullagh, Cbs, Wonk Room, Global Warming, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Media News
James Boyce

A CBS News correspondent who can't get his own title right makes up a number in a memo given to him by a group funded by ExxonMobil, and CBS News is wondering where the viewers are going.

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On the Public Dime, a Grating Whine

A. Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Global Warming Denial, Environmental Protection Agency, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Alan Carlin, CBS News, Climate Skeptics, Cei, Epa, Green News
A. Siegel

It is really sad that CBS News allowed itself to be played, so well, by the global warming denier crowd, helping to give legitimacy to an invented story.

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