Defenders Of Wildlife Scolds Palin On Polar Bears

Get ready, Tina Fey. The Defenders of Wildlife -- the group that made Sarah Palin's support of aerial shooting of wolves infamous -- is working on a follow-up. This time the target is Palin's lawsuit against the labeling of polar...

'Brutal' Group Goes In For The Kill On Palin's Record

An environmental advocacy group is purchasing more airtime for a graphic TV spot that attacks Gov. Sarah Palin for her support of aerial wolf hunting in Alaska. Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund began airing the minute-long ad "Brutal" in Ohio...

Al Gore's Alliance Strikes Back

Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection began flooding the cable news networks Thursday with a TV spot (subscription) that attacks the oil industry for lobbying against renewable energy legislation. “Why are we still stuck on dirty and expensive energy?” the...

Money Pours In After 'Brutal' Anti-Palin Ad

Since the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund began airing "Brutal" (subscription) on Friday -- a TV spot that skewers VP nominee Sarah Palin for her support of aerial hunting -- donations have been pouring into the environmental advocacy group. Senior...

Gore's Plan Gets Another Push During Olympics

Al Gore came to Washington in July to issue a challenge to the country: create a new energy economy that will generate 100 percent of America's electricity from clean sources within 10 years. Now the former vice president’s advocacy group,...

Gore's Army

The Alliance For Climate Protection, former Vice President Al Gore's green advocacy group, has launched the latest TV ad (subscription) in its "We" campaign, a $300 million effort to mobilize public opinion on climate change. While previous ads (subscription) run...

Climate Crusades

In what is shaping up to be one of the year's most intense debates on Capitol Hill, Senate Democrats are pushing climate change legislation that could upend the way the country regulates greenhouse gases. The Climate Security Act (also known...

Greening The GOP In Oregon

For weeks now, Oregon voters have been the target of campaign events and political advertisements from both Democratic candidates. In an effort to remind Oregonians that there's another candidate in the race, John McCain will today reach out to the...

Pelosi And Gingrich Go Green For Gore

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Speaker Newt Gingrich star in the latest "Unlikely Alliance" spot from Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection. A $300 million organizing and advertising effort, the ACP's "We" campaign seeks to translate popular support for...

Sharpton & Robertson Join Gore's Climate Crusade

President Bush's new climate change proposal was greeted with skepticism and scorn on Wednesday, as some pundits believe the proposal is too little, too late from a leader who has largely declined to address global warming. One organization that is...

No Free Ride For McCain

The prolonged Democratic race has given John McCain relative freedom to lay the groundwork for his general election campaign while his opponents are busy bloodying one another. For his media team, that has meant pre-emptively defining his candidacy through a...

Coin Flip For A Swing State

Regardless of which Republican candidate wins the party nomination in the New Mexico Senate primary race, the environment will be in danger, asserts a new ad from advocacy group Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund. "Two Bad For New Mexico" (subscription)...

Gore Campaigns For The Globe, Not The White House

Pundits are busy speculating about Al Gore's role in the increasingly cloudy Democratic primary race, but the former presidential candidate seems to have other things on his mind: namely, the environment. Gore is launching a campaign, but not the one...