Nancy Blatt This is Me

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1. 1. Safe Water Group

   www.safewatergroup.org/getting - [Cached]

   Published on: 9/24/2001   Last Visited: 3/8/2004

   Then Nancy Blatt called, and we discovered that our "parody" no exaggeration.
   
   Nancy Blatt is an aggressively perky woman who serves as Director of Public Information for the "Water Environment Federation (WEF). She phoned to say that she had seen an advance notice mentioning our book, and she was concerned that the title might interfere with the Federation's plans to transform the image of sewage sludge. "It's not toxic," she said, "and we're launching a campaign to get people to stop calling it sludge. We call it `biosolids.' It can be used beneficially to fertilize farm fields, and we see nothing wrong with that. We've got a lot of work ahead to educate the public on the value of biosolids." Blatt didn't think the title of our book would be helpful to her cause. "Why don't you change it to Smoking Is Good For You?." she suggested.
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   Blatt took pains to insist that "I am not a flack for an interest that I don't believe in personally." She said she shared our dim view of PR representatives working to promote tobacco and other harmful products. She said the Water Environment Federation works to promote recycling by applying the nutrients in sewage waste as fertilizer to farm fields, a "natural process" that returns organic matter to the soil and keeps it from polluting water supplies.
   
   "We were concerned that you might have heard some negative things about the campaign planned by our PR firm, Powell Tate," Blatt said.
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   Realizing we might be on to something, we asked Nancy Blatt to send more information about the Water Environment Federation. She dutifully mailed a glossy brochure and some other promotional materials, along with a letter reiterating her concern that our book might "do a disservice to the public and the environment." [1] Her cooperation quickly turned to stonewalling, however, when we requested strategy documents, memos, opinion surveys and other materials from Powell Tate.
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   [1] Nancy Blatt, letter to John Stauber, May 3, 1995.

2. 2. The Sludge Hits the Fan

   www.crcwater.org/issues/sludge - [Cached]

   Last Visited: 12/12/2007

   Then Nancy Blatt called, and we discovered that our "parody" no exaggeration.
   
   Nancy Blatt is an aggressively perky woman who serves as Director of Public Information for the "Water Environment Federation (WEF). She phoned to say that she had seen an advance notice mentioning our book, and she was concerned that the title might interfere with the Federation's plans to transform the image of sewage sludge. "It's not toxic," she said, "and we're launching a campaign to get people to stop calling it sludge. We call it `biosolids.' It can be used beneficially to fertilize farm fields, and we see nothing wrong with that. We've got a lot of work ahead to educate the public on the value of biosolids." Blatt didn't think the title of our book would be helpful to her cause. "Why don't you change it to Smoking Is Good For You?." she suggested.
   ...
   Blatt took pains to insist that "I am not a flack for an interest that I don't believe in personally." She said she shared our dim view of PR representatives working to promote tobacco and other harmful products. She said the Water Environment Federation works to promote recycling by applying the nutrients in sewage waste as fertilizer to farm fields, a "natural process" that returns organic matter to the soil and keeps it from polluting water supplies.
   
   "We were concerned that you might have heard some negative things about the campaign planned by our PR firm, Powell Tate," Blatt said.
   ...
   Realizing we might be on to something, we asked Nancy Blatt to send more information about the Water Environment Federation. She dutifully mailed a glossy brochure and some other promotional materials, along with a letter reiterating her concern that our book might "do a disservice to the public and the environment." [1] Her cooperation quickly turned to stonewalling, however, when we requested strategy documents, memos, opinion surveys and other materials from Powell Tate.
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   To educate the public at large about the benefits of sludge, the EPA turned to Nancy Blatt's employer, known today as the "Water Environment Federation."
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   - [1] Nancy Blatt, letter to John Stauber, May 3, 1995.

3. 3. www.deadlydeceit.com

   www.deadlydeceit.com/Law-suits - [Cached]

   Published on: 7/12/2007   Last Visited: 11/29/2007

   Walker's instructions to WEF's Nancy Blatt continued, "If the cases were (2) Zander, (4)Miami-Dade, (5) Tree Kill, (6) Miniature horses, (7) Bioaerosols, (10) AIDS, (11) Lou Gehrig's