[5] Fenton also co-founded three independent nonprofit organizations: Environmental Media Services, which coordinated communications activities for environmental groups; New Economy Communications, which works on human rights issues in the global economy; and Death Penalty Information Center, which helps journalists cover evidence of innocence and racial bias in the death penalty.

He was co-producer of the "No Nukes" concerts with Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor and many others in New York City, 1979.

[8] Fenton stated that the goal was to create so many repetitions of NRDC's message that average American consumers would hear it from many different media outlets in a short time.

[10] In the 1990s, the Chicago Tribune alleged that Fenton misused Command Trust, an organization of women who had survived toxic breast implants to generate huge amounts of publicity in British tabloids and talk shows over a problem that didn't really exist.

[11] Command Trust founder and breast implant survivor Sybil Niden Goldrich refuted these claims, saying that the issues were real and that the stories of sensationalism were false.