The percentage of organizations not employing PR firms ranged from 0% for the Gas & Oil Sector to a high of 33% for Renewable Energy Sector. Overall, on average, organizations engaged a PR firm 13.4 times over the entire study period. This ranged from a low of an average of 3 PR firms engaged by the Renewable Energy Sector organizations to a high of an average of 23.22 PR firms engaged by Utilities Sector organizations. An analysis of variance showed that the Utilities Sector had a significantly higher frequency of engaging PR firms than any of the other sectors.Footnote7 The high use of PR firms in the Utilities Sector was driven by the exceptional use of PR firms by General Electric and Siemens. These are highly visible corporations, and they clearly make a large investment in hiring PR firms. The public nature of most other utilities did not impact their levels of PR firm hiring in a manner at all comparable to GE and Siemens. Additionally, while the Gas & Oil Sector has an overall higher frequency of PR firm hiring than any of the other sectors in absolute terms, there is no statistically significant difference between the Coal/Steel/Rail Sector, the Gas & Oil Sector, and the Environmental Movement in terms of their PR firm use at the organizational level. Due to the small number of cases, an analysis of the Renewable Energy Sector was not conducted.

The role of public relations firms in climate change politics | Climatic Change
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-021-03244-4

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it becomes clear that the energy source with the highest mining burden is coal. Generating one gigawatt-hour of electricity with coal requires 20 times the mining footprint as generating the same electricity with low-carbon power sources like wind and solar. Producing the same electricity with natural gas requires moving about twice as much rock.


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The Playbook: How to Deny Science, Sell Lies, and Make a Killing in the Corporate World Hardcover – July 12, 2022
by Jennifer Jacquet (Author)
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From an astute observer of business behavior and expert in climate denial comes a thought-provoking explanation of how corporations delay, distract, and deflect blame and spread disinformation surrounding health issues, pollution, and climate change.

“Brilliantly subversive and witty. If you want to be a vile, greedy capitalist, this how-to book will be a great help. And if you want to identify vile, greedy capitalists, it will show you how to recognize them. A landmark book.” —Brian Eno

Are you a corporation out to make your fortune at any cost? Are you worried about “facts” and “experts” getting in the way of your profits? Do you wish you could make scientists, journalists, and anyone who asks questions about your suspect business practices disappear? Now you can.

Whether you are selling tobacco, dealing in oil, or pushing pharmaceuticals, denying climate change or exploiting workers, The Playbook is here to help you obfuscate your way to what you want.

Including how to:
Massage the statistics to suit your needs. Or, even better, fund studies to make up some new ones
Attract and cultivate university professors who have an axe to grind and are short of cash
Make your problem somebody else’s problem—ideally the government’s
Remember: Tame journalists, PR firms, think tanks, lawyers, and threats of physical violence are your friends!

Follow these rules and you are guaranteed to make a killing. It’s economic sense, after all.

TUHO: Despite Advertising Carbon Capture, ExxonMobil Saw Marginal Role for It in Fighting Climate Change
Internal documents unearthed by a U.S. Senate panel show the oil giant modeled up to 500 CCS sites operating globally by 2050, far fewer than rival Shell.

Now, Jacques is digging into the root political reasons for their involvement. We talked to Jacques, whose research specialty is the politics of sustainability and global environmental change, about his work and its implications for the planet.

When did this climate change denial begin in earnest?
The conservative climate countermovement began in 1992 in opposition to the global environmentalism that was on display at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, also known as the Rio Earth Summit.

There was a fear that global environmentalism was the new “communism” taking over after the demise of the Soviet Union the year before. Leading conservatives from the United States attended the summit on a reconnaissance mission, as later revealed in an interview with conservative leader and former governor of Washington state Dixy Lee Ray. Ray said that she and political writer and founder of Washington, D.C.-based libertarian think tank Competitive Enterprise Institute Fred Smith were sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich.

https://www.monmouth.edu/magazine/from-red-scare-to-green-scare/

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