greenwashing
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The polluters' newfound concern for the poor
Oil companies think they will deliver the masses from poverty and the World Bank seems to agree. But do their projects actually support the poor?
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How green was my organic milk? A podcast with author Heather Rogers
Heather RogersThink you’re saving the environment by buying organic or fueling your car with corn oil? Heather Rogers, author of Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental […]
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A quick look back at BP’s pre-spill greenwashing
The BP oil spill in the Gulf is heartbreaking, so is the “It wasn’t our fault” denial. A little walk down memory lane (and not too long of one) should […]
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'Safe' offshore oil rig explodes, 12 missing, 7 critically hurt
The dangers of the fossil fuel industry have sadly come into focus again, after an “explosion and fire on an offshore drilling platform” off the coast of Louisiana left […]
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Coal front group compares mining coal to fighting in a war zone
Talk about bad timing. Just weeks before the most deadly mining disaster in decades, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) — a front group of big utilities and coal […]
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The Perils of ‘Green Watching’
Earth Day is coming, and with it, hours and hours of “green” television programming and print media coverage. People who hardly give the environment a thought all year will be […]
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Is Masters champion Phil Mickelson unwittingly helping ExxonMobil greenwash its anti-science record?
I’m interested in your thoughts on how much greenwashing this is on a scale of 1 to 10. I watch pretty much every major golf tournament. And that means that […]
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Canada's Husky Energy sells 10% ethanol blend as
Americans may not have heard of Husky Energy. But thanks to an eagle-eyed reader up north who snapped this picture, we all get to […]
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Exxon Mobil paid no federal income tax in 2009!
The joke goes, The economy is so bad Exxon Mobil laid off 25 Congressmen. If only. Turns out the economy is never really bad for the oil giant, and the […]
