Issue Area: Environment


Extra Articles and Studies
The Polluted Cap-and-Trade Debate: Media amplify climate change skeptics (September 2009) By Candice O'Grady

Overlooking Evidence: Media ignore environmental connections to breast cancer (February 2009) By Miranda Spencer

Unsafe as Milk: How journalism failed to protect babies against BPA (February 2009) By Candice O'Grady

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Money Is the Real Green Power:: The hoax of eco-friendly nuclear energy (January/February 2008) By Karl Grossman

Rachel Carson, Mass Murderer?: The creation of an anti-environmental myth (September/ October 2007) By Aaron Swartz

The Climate Change Gap: U.S. media fiddle while Earth burns (July/August 2007) By Neil deMause

In Denial on Climate Change: Leading pundits reject science on global warming (May/June 2007) By Peter Hart

Gullibility Begins at Home: NYT accepted false reassurances on Ground Zero safety (November/December 2006) By Julie Hollar

Meet the Oil Executives: Industry-friendly panels on NBC’s Meet the Press (July/August 2006) By Peter Hart

Sidebar: Prepackaged News: Straight From the Source, No Journalism Required (March/April 2006) By Janine Jackson

World’s Worst Disasters Overlooked: Survey identifies biggest “forgotten” crises (May/June 2005) By Carole J.L. Collins

Journalistic Balance as Global Warming Bias: Creating controversy where science finds consensus (November/December 2004) By Jules Boykoff and Maxwell Boykoff

Destroying the Forests to Save Them: Media myths fuel Bush wildfire plan (November/December 2002) By Karen Charman

The Washington Times’ Hair-Raising Tall Tale: Lynx fur 'hoax' story shows the power of right-wing media (May/June 2002) By Paul Tolme

Report from Porto Alegre: Is another media world possible? (May/June 2002) By Jeff Cohen

Rare, Not Well-Done: U.S. coverage of climate change talks (March/April 2001) By Rachel Coen

West Nile Attack: Media foment fear of virus and obscure pesticide concerns (November /December 2000) By Karen Charman

Fronting for Big Coal: Halting global warming would be racist, PR insists (September/October 2000) By Robert Weissman and Russell Mokhiber

Genetic Gambling: Media fail to present real issues of bioengineering (May/June 2000) By Karen Charman

Have Media Warmed Up to Climate Change?: Despite growing coverage, solutions still aren't on agenda (November/December 1999) By Jim Gordon

Brill's Content: Sweet on Sugar: Media magazine can't admit flaws in its attack on Time (November/December 1999) By Jim Naureckas

"Terrorists" Attack Ski Lodges, Not Doctors (Update December 1998)

Road to Ruin: Sports Utility Vehicles and the Greening of Environmental Destruction (September/October 1998) By Robin Andersen

Global Smokescreen (Update August 1998)

Atoning for Environmentalism: To PBS Frontline Producer, Scientists Critical of Nuclear Power Are 'Flat Earthers' (July/August 1997) By Karl Grossman

Exploding ABC's Unabomber Hoax (Update June 1996)

20 Reasons Not to Trust the Journal Editorial Page (September/October 1995) By Jim Naureckas and Steve Rendall

TV Lets Corporations Pull Green Wool Over Viewers' Eyes (July/August 1995) By Jay Letto

Limbaughesque Science: 'Eco-Realism' Vs. Eco-Reality (July/August 1995) By Ron Nixon

Milking a Story: How the Makers of Bovine Growth Hormone Manipulate the Media (May/June 1995) By Amy Poe

ABC's Junk Science: Victor Neufeld's Anti-Environmental Spin Continues (Update June 1994) By Karl Grossman

A Nuclear Conflict of Interest?: 20/20 Blurs the Lines (January/February 1994) By Karl Grossman

The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh Debates Reality (July/August 1994)

Toxic Times (November/December 1991)

Polluters' PBS Penance (May/June 1990) By Peter Dykstra

Holes in Ozone Coverage (May/June 1990)

Cronkite for Hire (October/November 1989)

Action Alerts and Advisories
NPR Touts Pro-Nuke 'Environmentalists': Network's own nuclear links undisclosed (8/22/07)

Time's Green Century Advice: Less Environmental Activism (8/27/02)

U.S. Coverage of Global Warming Talks: Rare, Not Well-Done (11/22/00)