Tagged: lobbying

Lobbying isn’t everything - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Mar 18, 2013 •

• Boyd Swinburn,
• Health,
• lobbying,
• paternalism

Conspiracies and power struggles everywhere. Here's Auckland's Boyd Swinburn on the New York soda ban being overturned. Boyd Swinburn, the University of Auckland's professor of population nutrition and global health, said the court battle's significa... Read More

Follow the climate money? Well, they did… - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Jan 13, 2010 •

• Climate cranks,
• Climate politics,
• Copenhagen,
• cranks,
• Funding,
• lobbying,
• Peter Griffin,
• Sciblogs,
• SPPI

This is a cross-post from Peter Griffin’s blog Griffin’s Gadgets over at Sciblogs. Peter (head of the NZ Science Media Centre), had the chance to explore some of the background to the intense lobbying being carried out on climate action (or inaction) when he met Bill Buzenberg, executive director of the Washington-based Centre for [...] … Read More