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Newsweek's Take on Greenwash

Blog by claudette | September 29, 2009 1 comment

As you might have noticed, Newsweek ran a special issue this week with the cover story, "The Greenest Big Companies in America." The feature ranks the S&P 500 according to each company's environmental impact, policies and...

Chevron's "Will You Join Us" Greenwash Campaign

Blog by claudette | September 26, 2008

On its website and advertisements, Chevron uses its slogan, " Human Energy ," to tout its use of innovation and efficiency for its altruistic goal to "power human progress."  With its newest greenwashing campaign, " Will You Join Us?

Chevron guilty of polluting the Amazon

Blog by Phil Radford | February 22, 2011 2 comments

Last week a judge in Ecuador found Chevron guilty of polluting the Amazon rainforest and ordered the company to pay $9 billion in damages. Chevron plans to challenge the ruling. One top Chevron official has been quoted as saying that...

Beyond Oil Homage to Gandhi and Cousteau

Blog by Kert Davies | September 22, 2010 3 comments

First some markers. Yesterday was the autumnal equinox and we say goodbye to a very hot-ozone air pollution alert filled-summer. My kids' lungs thank you  American Petroleum Institute (not)... This week marks my 10th anniversary at...

Chevron looks better when it does its own reporting

Blog by claudette | May 14, 2009 1 comment

In response to the 60 Minutes report about contamination of the Amazon rain forest in Ecuador, Chevron apparently hired its own reporter to create its own version of the report.  According to the New York Times : Both videos...

Going Beyond Oil

Blog by Philip_Radford | September 21, 2010 2 comments

© Will Rose / Greenpeace Despite the overwhelming evidence that Big Oil's reckless pursuit of the last remaining oil reserves (and ever-more exorbitant profits) is disastrous for the planet, governments of the world are still...

Polluting your mind

Blog by Joe Smyth | December 23, 2009 1 comment

Anne Mulkern wrote an interesting article in today's New York Times/Greenwire about Big Oil's efforts to greenwash their dirty image with misleading advertisements.  As the article details, giant oil companies like BP, Shell,...

Behind the Image

Blog by claudette | September 21, 2009

This week, Planet Green's Focus Earth program airs an episode on greenwash. In the episode Bob Woodruff interviews environmental and corporate watchdog expert Kenny Bruno, author of Greenwash and Corporate Environmentalism, and...

Mock commercial undermines new Vote 4 Energy oil advertisement

Blog by cgibson | January 4, 2012

Crossposted from PolluterWatch Today, the American Petroleum Institute unveiled its 2012 Vote 4 Energy astroturf campaign, centered around a major election-linked CNN advertising package that PolluterWatch helped expose ...

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