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Why Don't Journalists Ask Fossil Fuel CEOs Whether THEIR Industry Can "Stand On Its Own Two Feet" Without Subsidies?
Yesterday, we posted on two recent interviews with Vestas CEO Anders Runevad. One of the questions, by a CNBC on-air correspondent, really jumped out at us:
Continue ReadingQ: "Why doesn't ocean acidification get the same attention as climate change?"
A: "Too many syllables. It's not a good hashtag."
This was the tongue-in-cheek...
Continue ReadingBy Bridgette Borst
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Continue ReadingBob Pickard has worked for dirty energy public relations firms in the past, but he's dead on correct and exhaustive in this piece ("The Climate Change PR...
Continue ReadingBy Ross Chanin & Emilee Pierce
Continue ReadingWe recently hosted Politico senior energy & environment reporter Darren Goode for a Scaling Green Communicating Energy talk. Our first post discussed Goode's...
Continue ReadingAnalysis: Media Coverage of Keystone XL Has Been Wildly Biased in Favor of the Pipeline
MediaMatters for America has looked at coverage of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, and not surprisingly (but sadly), they find that "the media continue to...
Continue ReadingIt's Time for the Media to Crank UP Its Energy and Climate Coverage, Not Cut It Back
For a number of important reasons - economic, environmental, strategic - it's clear that energy is one of the most important, urgent topics of the day. It's...
Continue ReadingAccording to a recent TechCrunch story, "when untruthful information is immediately corrected in a news story," it doesn't fix the effect. In fact, a new study...
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