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Why Do the Same Groups Oppose Health Care and Energy Reform?
Health care reform seems a long way from climate change but they share something very important in common: well funded interest groups that want to keep things just the way they are.Take the Manhattan...
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Manhattan Institute Op-ed Exemplifies Why NY Times Should Require Disclosure...
The New York Times ran an op-ed last week by Robert Bryce of the Manhattan Institute, a group funded by Koch Industries, ExxonMobil and other polluters to confuse the public about climate change and...
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40th Anniversary of the Lewis Powell Memo Launching Corporate Propaganda...
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Lewis Powell Memo, a document that set the stage for the creation of the echo chamber that protects corporate interests ahead of the public interest. A...
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Journalists Ask NYTimes To Set Disclosure of Conflicts Policy For Op-Ed...
Back in June, I wrote about my effort to seek answers from The New York Times public editor’s office regarding the paper’s lack of a policy for disclosure of possible conflicts of interest among op-ed...
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Robert Bryce – The Media’s Industry-Funded Go-To Guy
Robert Bryce, a fellow at the dirty industry-funded Manhattan Institute, is under increasing scrutiny as media outlets continue to use him as an “expert” on energy issues without disclosing his ties to...
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Robert Bryce from the fossil fuel industry-funded Manhattan Institute just can't bring himself to answer a simple question about the fossil fuel industry funding flowing into his group. Readers of...
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Robert Bryce
Robert Bryce Credentials B.F.A., University of Texas at Austin (1986). [1] BackgroundRobert Bryce is an American author and journalist based in Austin, Texas.He has regularly been cited as an "expert"...
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New Shill Gas Study Published by SUNY Buffalo Institute With Heavy Industry Ties
When does a study on the unconventional shale gas industry become a "shill gas study"? The quick answer: when nearly everyone writing and peer reviewing it has close ties to the industry they're...
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Public Accountability Initiative Produces New Report on SUNY Buffalo's "Shill...
The Public Accountability Initiative (PAI) has upped the ante on DeSmogBlog's reporting on what we coined a "Shill Gas Study" recently conducted by SUNY Buffalo.In our critique of the "study" we...
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Frackademia: Controversial SUNY Buffalo Shale Institute's Reputation Unraveling
A storm is brewing in Buffalo and it's not the record snow storm typically associated with upstate New York. Rather, it's taking place in the ivory tower of academia and revolves around hydraulic...
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Shameful: Keystone XL Proponent Using Deadly Lac-Megantic, Quebec Oil Train...
Five people are confirmed dead and 40 people remain missing in the small hamlet of Lac-Megantic, Quebec, where a train with 73 carloads full of Bakken shale oil derailed explosively, incinerating 30...
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Republican Senators Push Manhattan Institute's Dirty Energy Propaganda Paper
Two Republican members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will be releasing a white paper later this week that will allegedly make the case that “regulations” and legislation that...
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Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research BackgroundThe Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, originally known as the International Center for Economic Policy Studies, was founded in 1978 by Anthony...
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ExxonMobil: New Disclosures Show Oil Giant Still Funding Climate Science...
ExxonMobil and the climate science denial machinery that it has helped to build over the years are now under more scrutiny than ever before.At its most recent AGM, the oil and gas giant faced a barrage...
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Why Do the Same Groups Oppose Health Care and Energy Reform?
Health care reform seems a long way from climate change but they share something very important in common: well funded interest groups that want to keep things just the way they are.Take the Manhattan...
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Manhattan Institute Op-ed Exemplifies Why NY Times Should Require Disclosure...
The New York Times ran an op-ed last week by Robert Bryce of the Manhattan Institute, a group funded by Koch Industries, ExxonMobil and other polluters to confuse the public about climate change and...
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40th Anniversary of the Lewis Powell Memo Launching Corporate Propaganda...
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Lewis Powell Memo, a document that set the stage for the creation of the echo chamber that protects corporate interests ahead of the public interest. A...
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Journalists Ask NYTimes To Set Disclosure of Conflicts Policy For Op-Ed...
Back in June, I wrote about my effort to seek answers from The New York Times public editor’s office regarding the paper’s lack of a policy for disclosure of possible conflicts of interest among op-ed...
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Robert Bryce – The Media’s Industry-Funded Go-To Guy
Robert Bryce, a fellow at the dirty industry-funded Manhattan Institute, is under increasing scrutiny as media outlets continue to use him as an “expert” on energy issues without disclosing his ties to...
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Accountability Moment: Manhattan Institute's Robert Bryce Squirms And Evades...
Robert Bryce from the fossil fuel industry-funded Manhattan Institute just can't bring himself to answer a simple question about the fossil fuel industry funding flowing into his group. Readers of...
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