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This confuses and complicates this entry so it has been split into two: '''This entry deals with the company.'' The entry [[E. Bruce and Patricia Harrison]] deals with the couple. This was very much a lobbying-business and political partnership. Harrison was a former public relations staff member for the [[Chemical Manufacturers Association]] while his wife, Patricia de Stacy co-chaired the Republican National Committee, and served as Assistant Secretary of State for Education and Cultural Affairs.
The company came to the fore following the environmental sensationalism which followed the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's book, "''Silent Spring''" about the harm pesticides (mainly DDT) and herbicides were doing to the environment -- which kicked off the modern environmental movement, [https://www.nrdc.org/stories/story-silent-spring] Carson was a meticulous researcher and a top class factual writer, so the chemical industry decided that they only way to counter her influence was through particularly vicious PR.
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The name '''E Bruce Harrison''' often refers could refer to both to a Washington-based the public relations practitioner, and the company he and his wife [[Patricia de Stacy]] established in 1973 in Washington --the [[E Bruce Harrison Company]] Company -- which led the early fight against the early environmental activism on behalf of the chemical industry. It later became well known for the establishment of so-called 'independent' scientific societies, policy groups and industry coalitions to create diversions and scientific doubt for industries with environmental issues and problems.
A few years after the Harrison firm's founding, the company was incorporated into the Pinnacle Group, and later it was sold to Ruder Finn. [http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-55610053.html]
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This confuses and complicates this entry so it has been split into two: '''<u>This entry deals with the company.</u>''' The entry '''[[E. Bruce and Patricia Harrison]]''' deals with the couple.
This marriage was also very much also a lobbying-business and political partnership. Harrison was a former public relations staffer for the [[Chemical Manufacturers Association]], while his wife, who uses the name Patricia de Stacy, co-chaired the Republican National Committee, and served as Assistant Secretary of State for Education and Cultural Affairs.
The company came to the fore following the environmental sensationalism which followed the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's book, "''Silent Spring''" about the harm pesticides (mainly DDT) and herbicides were doing to the environment -- which kicked off the modern environmental movement, [https://www.nrdc.org/stories/story-silent-spring] Carson was a meticulous researcher and a top class factual writer, so the chemical industry decided that they only way to counter her influence was through particularly vicious PR.
For many years the company specialized in the creation of industry-wide 'umbrella' activities and ideologically based political campaigns. In its political activities, it had the support of companies like Coors the brewers and RJ Reynolds tobacco, who are active promoters of unrestrained free-market movements, reduction in taxes, and small government.
