Newsweek And Oil Lobby Team Up To Host Climate Change Event With Lawmakers

Talking Points Memo by Zachary Roth | Nov. 4, 2009 (Opinion)

Newsweek magazine is teaming up with an oil-industry lobbying group to host an event on climate-change and energy issues involving lawmakers, just as the Senate gets set to take up legislation on the subject. Full Story »

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by Derek Hawkins - Nov. 18, 2009

Solid report from TPMMuckraker, though I don't believe they were the ones to break it a couple weeks ago. Other news outlets have released more detailed reports.

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by Kaizar Campwala - Nov. 17, 2009

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by Randy Morrow - Nov. 20, 2009

It is a bit disappointing that Newsweek would be involved in what appears to be an (industry) biased event.

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Greenpeace Seeks Newsweek Disclosure of API Revenue

New York Times by Anne C. Mulkern | Nov. 9, 2009 (News Report)

Greenpeace is demanding that Newsweek disclose how much money it has made selling the oil industry's biggest lobbying group advertising deals that included the ability to ...

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API's Partnership With Newsweek Raises Ad Cash and Ethics Questions

New York Times by Anne C. Mulkern | Nov. 5, 2009 (News Analysis)

Newsweek and API have teamed on four forums so far and are planning another -- "Climate and Energy Policy: Moving?" -- for Dec. 1, when the Senate could be holding a floor ...

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In Senate, coal fuels climate deals

The Politico by Lisa Lerer | Nov. 17, 2009 (News Report)

Forget the debate over green jobs, wind farms and solar power. In the Senate, all deals on climate change run through coal country. Black gold has maintained a tight hold ...

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High stakes in Appalachia as greens battle Big Coal

Toronto Star by Mitch Potter | Nov. 17, 2009 (News Report)

The plan was painfully simple: save a mountain, turn a country, cool the Earth. And for the longest time, it seemed to be working here on Coal River Mountain, ground zero in ...

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Vets join front lines of climate fight

The Politico by Jen Dimascio | Nov. 10, 2009 (News Report)

Veterans groups have become a key weapon for environmentalists in their bid to win over swing votes on California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer’s climate change bill. But ...

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General Electric Pursues Pot of Government Stimulus Gold

Wall Street Journal by Elizabeth Williamson, Paul Glader | Nov. 18, 2009 (News Report)

The financial crisis hasn't been kind to General Electric Co. Its stock has lost almost half its value, the government has stepped in to prop up its enormous financial arm, ...

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