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"Bagful of Cash" Exposes Chamber of Commerce As Supreme Corporate Lobby
A new report shows how the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has invested millions of corporate dollars into opposing all legislation relating to healthcare, financial reform, closing corporate tax loopholes, and addressing climate change.
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Exposed: Coal Plants Are Dumping Unlimited Arsenic and Poisons Into U.S. Waters
Environmental experts reviewed data from 386 coal-fired power plants across the country and found that the Clean Water Act has been almost universally ignored by power companies and permitting agencies.
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Occupy Money Cooperative Introduces New Financial Service
The co-op banking project, which emerged as a group from Occupy Wall Street, seeks to extend financial services to populations that would otherwise be excluded.
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No One Knows How to Stop These Tar Sands Oil Spills
Thousands of barrels of tar-sands oil have been burbling up into forest areas for at least six weeks in Cold Lake, Alberta, and it seems that nobody knows how to staunch the flow.
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Global Power Project, Part 7: Banking on Influence with Citigroup
Citigroup, the largest single recipient of US taxpayer bailout funds with some $476 billion in cash and guarantees, didn't just defraud investors: it foreclosed on hundreds of U.S. military members who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The Great GMO Boycott: Could the World's Most Hated Corporation Finally Be On The Run?
The anti-GMO movement has identified Monsanto’s Achilles heel—GMO food labeling at the state level—and our common task now is to win the all-important Washington State ballot initiative I-522.
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Illinois Bill Seeks Financial Transaction Tax on $800 Trillion Derivatives Market
A Financial Transaction Tax would be easy to administer and difficult to evade. Why should the rest of us pay up to 10% on the necessities of life while risky derivative purchases aren't taxed at all?
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Battle for LICH Brooklyn Hospital Escalates
As the Affordable Care Act goes into effect, moves to close a 155-year-old hospital in downtown Brooklyn — and potentially sell it to a for-profit entity or a developer — could have national implications.
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JPMorgan Chase to Pay $500 Million for Energy Fixing Scandal
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has fined Chase for manipulating energy prices in Enron-esque fashion in Michigan and California.
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Raising the Battle Over Fossil Fuel Exports in the Northwest
A perverse thing is happening in the Pacific Northwest, where energy corporations are trying to slip their fossil fuel exports through some of the most progressive, environmentally conscious communities in North America.