January 31, 2012 – 10:07 am
by Mike Mulvihill
As the presidential election season ramps into a full-tilt boogie, energy will be a topic perking toward the top of the national discussion. While the GOP candidates beat up on one another, the incumbent come this November is beating the energy drum.
While perusing Facebook, I was greeted by an online banner ad for [...]
November 1, 2011 – 10:53 am
by Mike Mulvihill
As a House Subcommittee probe into the collapse of Solyndra, Inc. widens (Solyndra received a $535 million federal loan guarantee), a second clean energy company with a $43 million Department of Energy loan guarantee has filed for bankruptcy. Beacon Power, which also received a $26 million in stimulus grant from DOE, was [...]
September 13, 2011 – 7:29 am
In a nationally broadcast speech last week, President Obama announced his $447 billion American Jobs Act plan. Unlike prior speeches, he didn’t mention clean-energy jobs once, but if you read between the lines, there are areas where the sector could gain.
Putting that aside for a moment, it is also worth noting President Obama’s decision to [...]
By Mike Mulvihill
After a week of speculation, by the time this post is viewed BP will have likely announced that Tony Hayward is headed to Siberia. Fitting that Hayward would be sent to Russia, where he will help manage BP’s joint venture there. Perhaps the most deviled person in America, Hayward is the guy who [...]
by Mike Mulvihill
The following article by Robert J. Samuelson appeared in the Washington Post on January 21, 2010. The tone of the article is a bit political for my taste, but the facts address many of the realities about our nation’s “addiction” to traditional energy sources and speaks to the reality that we’re not about to [...]
By Mike Mulvihill
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Posted in Digital Marketing
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Also tagged alternative energy, BP oil spill, carbon tax, China, energy policy, fossil fuels, PR Industry Trends, renewable energy, Robert Bryce, Robert J. Samuelson, Washington Post
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I thought I could just let it go that the great rock-and-roll paper of my youth turned into a slick magazine. But, the editors broke a story about Goldman Sachs profiting from/causing every stock market crash since the 20s - great journalism, even though it was one of those ”do ya think?” stories (who would have guessed this of [...]
by Mike Mulvihill
How much is your company’s reputation worth? In the case of BP, apparently the U.S. government’s estimate is $20 billion. That’s how much the government has told BP it must set aside in an escrow account to restore public trust in BP, and, oh by the way, to expedite payments to help clean [...]
By Mike Mulvihill
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Posted in Digital Marketing
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Also tagged bankruptcy, BP, BP stock dividend, Chevron, crisis communications, gulf clean up costs, Gulf Oil Spill, oil spill reclamation, PR Industry Trends, President Obama, Reputation, The Wall Street Journal, Top Hat maneuver
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By Mike Mulvihill
Young climate activists, who worked to mobilize voters in order to elect President Obama, are expressing great disappointment in the President’s recent announcement to expand oil leasing into large areas off the Atlantic Coast and Gulf of Mexico,
It’s Getting Hot in Here (dispatches from the youth climate movement) dismays their generation is getting screwed [...]
By Mike Mulvihill
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Posted in Digital Marketing, PR Industry Trends
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Also tagged Cap-and-Trade, Climate Change, energy, energy legislation, Gov. Bob McDonnell, Green Power, Off Shore Drilling, Oil and Gas, President Obama, Virginia
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February 5, 2010 – 12:22 am
The recent massive recall at Toyota, aside from breathing new life into a moribund General Motors (an Obama conspiracy?), raises an interesting question for public relations folks. If your management makes a conscious decision to take more risks in manufacturing, is it also obligated to communicate this strategy’s potential impact to stakeholders, particularly customers and investors?
The Lean [...]
By Michael Whitlow
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Posted in Digital Marketing
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Also tagged Consumer Reports, Daisuke Wakabayashi, Fitch, gm, Ken Bensinger, Media Matters, Roger Vincent, seven wastes, The Wall Street Journal, Toyota, WardsAuto.com
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November 23, 2009 – 7:44 am
by Geoff Livingston
What better way to role into the Thanksgiving holiday than to poke a little fun at some turkeys? We can all use a laugh. The following list represents some of 2009’s biggest Turkeys in social media.
1) Ashton Kutcher: Really? Really? Did we really make this guy into the Twitter icon of the [...]
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