Sep 4, 2009
Another Astroturf Campaign
New York Times, September 3, 2009
It was probably only a matter of time, but the oil lobby has taken a page from the anti-health-care-reform manual in an effort to drum up opposition to climate change legislation in Congress. Behind the overall effort — billed, naturally, as a grass-roots citizen movement — lie the string-pullers at [...]
Sep 4, 2009
DomesticFuel.com covers Operation Free in Florida
Florida Vetrans Denounce Big Oil Front Group
Posted by Joanna Schroeder – August 31st, 2009
Big Oil is out astroturfing once again, this time under the guise of the group “Energy Citizens,” a front group set up by their Washington lobbying arm, the American Petroleum Institute. The goal of this effort is to stage rallies across the [...]
Sep 4, 2009
Truman Project covered in Rebuilding Democracy
The Truman Project Stumps for Climate Change
By Lynn Allen on August 21, 2009
What’s the Truman Project?
The Truman National Security Project, an organization of retired military leaders, has made it very clear that they believe that climate change is a critical national security issue. I was invited to lunch with several Truman Project staffers and a [...]
Sep 4, 2009
Operation Free mentioned in Public News Service
Vets: Fuel National Security with Less Imported Oil and Carbon
August 31, 2009
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Today’s forum on National Security, Energy and Climate at the University of South Florida comes on the heels of a nationwide effort by a group of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans called Operation Free to bring attention to the issue. [...]
