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On the front page of the Seattle Times today, reporter Brian M. Rosenthal has a first-rate investigative look at the supposedly green lobbying firms that are on the payroll of the coal industry. The Seattle Times article is based on two recent reports from Sightline: Look Who’s Taking Coal Money Look Who’s Taking Coal Money, Part 2 Rosenthal’s piece is scrupulously even-handed. Yet the bare facts make for a devastating...

This is great: the redoubtable Joel Connelly, over at the Seattle P-I, is on the case. Take a look at his story: Seattle PR firms are doing “coal’s dirty work.” If ever an industry needed good PR, it’s coal. The industry can’t hope to promote its own coal export schemes in the Northwest so instead it buys support from local consulting and PR firms willing to do coal’s dirty work. By...

Well, that was satisfying. Yesterday, DeSmogBlog caught coal PR flak Lauri Hennessey laughing about people worried about climate change. After that, I publicly asked whether we should begin a targeted divestment campaign that would encourage Northwest clients to stop working with her private consulting firm. Today, all that’s left of the Hennessey PR website is smoking rubble. The subpages are 404 errors, and this is all that’s left of the...