M+R Strategic Services
'M+R Strategic Services is a Washington D.C.-based PR firm.
M&R is a PR/lobby business begun and owned in part by Donald K. Ross, an advisor to foundations who is on the board of the League of Conservation Voters.
Helping DuPont
DuPont, one of the world's worst polluters, hired M&R Strategic Services in the U.S. Ross's PR firm <A HREF="http://www.mrss.com/f_client.html" target="_blank">M&R does business with dozens of major health and environmental non-profits</A>, many of them funded by the individuals and foundations he advises. Recently M&R sent an urgent appeal to groups asking them to sign a joint letter to President Bush calling for "a major national initiative to end childhood lead poisoning." However, M&R's appeal failed to reveal that M&R works for DuPont, <A HREF="http://www.aeclp.org/" target="_blank">a company now named with others in forty-five government lawsuits</A> to hold them accountable for <A HREF="http://www.sueleadindustry.homestead.com/" target="_blank">contamination of U.S. housing with lead paint</A>. Advocacy groups including the <A HREF="http://www.afhh.org/aboutus/about_us_main.htm" target=_blank">Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning</a> have rebuffed M&R and its client DuPont saying "their recommendations to the President are incomplete and out of balance." These groups are now circulating their own letter to the White House.
Personnel
Senior Management
- [[Sarah DiJulio]
- Arthur Malkin
- Tom Novick
- Donald Ross
Bill Wasserman
Contact Details
2120 L Street, NW Sixth Floor Washington, DC 20037 Phone: 202.223.9541 Fax: 202.223.9579 Web: http://www.mrss.com/
| This article is a stub. You can help by expanding it. |
