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Out-of-State Oil Interests Fund Ballot Measure to Block CA Clean Energy Law [09.08.10]
The campaign promoting Proposition 23, a referendum on California’s November ballot that would essentially annul the state’s landmark clean energy law, is being funded primarily by two Texas-based oil companies. [Read More]
Extractive Industries Transparency and Human Rights: Why Opening the Books is Just the Beginning of the Story [09.08.10]
As we applaud the significant strides accomplished by transparency advocates this year, it’s useful to recall why opening the books is so important...One of the primary ways that extractive industries contribute to human rights abuses in some ... [Read More]
Texas Coal Plant’s 50,000 Air Pollution Violations Lead to Legal Challenge [09.08.10]
More than 50,000 air pollution violations at the massive Martin Lake coal-fired power plant led the Sierra Club, represented by Earthjustice and Environmental Integrity Project, to file a lawsuit today in federal court against plant owner Luminant ... [Read More]
USA: Bid to suspend California global-warming law gets $1 million from billionaire brothers' firm [09.06.10]
The donation to the Proposition 23 campaign comes from a subsidiary of Kansas-based Koch Industries, which owns refineries and controls 4,000 miles of oil pipelines. [Read More]
Corporate Benevolence and Corporate Despotism [09.06.10]
When we worry about the influence of big business on our existence these days, we generally think about a variety of companies: our employer, the financial institutions that handle our money, the drug companies that treat our ailments, the ... [Read More]
What is CSR? Free download of introduction to CSR now available [09.06.10]
We've just posted online our introduction to CSR from our 2008 text co-written with Laura Spence, Corporate Social Responsibility: Readings and Cases in a Global Context. It's available for free download here at the Social Science Research Network, ... [Read More]
Friends of the Earth urges end to 'land grab' for biofuels [09.01.10]
European Union countries must drop their biofuels targets or else risk plunging more Africans into hunger and raising carbon emissions, according to Friends of the Earth (FoE). [Read More]
Sodexo and Coalition of Immokalee Workers Sign Fair Food Agreement [USA] [08.29.10]
Sodexo...and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW)...have joined forces to improve farm worker wages and working conditions in the tomato fields of Florida. [Read More]
Coalition Demands FDA Deny Approval Of Controversial Genetically Engineered Fish [08.29.10]
FDA Considers Approval of GE Salmon–the First GE Food Animal–Yet Fails to Inform the Public of Environmental and Economic Risks [Read More]
Wal-Mart Asks Supreme Court to Hear Bias Suit [08.29.10]
Wal-Mart Stores asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to review the largest employment discrimination lawsuit in American history, involving more than a million female workers, current and former, at Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club stores. [Read More]
U.S. government may finance massive coal projects in India, South Africa [08.29.10]
The United States Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank) voted on Wednesday to seek a final review of a $900m loan for a controversial 3,960 MW coal-fired power plant in India, reports Pacific Environment, a San Francisco-based environmental group. [Read More]
New Study Shows Coal Ash Water Contamination Much Worse Than Previous Estimates [08.29.10]
(c) Jerry D. Greer.Days before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) kicks off a series of regional hearings across the United States on whether and how to regulate toxic coal ash waste from coal-fired power plants, a major new study ... [Read More]
39 More Toxic Coal Ash Sites Found to Contaminate US Water Supply With Arsenic & Heavy Metals [08.27.10]
A new report by the Environmental Integrity Project, Earthjustice, and the Sierra Club has identified an additional 39 sites in 21 states where toxic coal ash is contaminating drinking and surface water with arsenic and heavy metals. These new ... [Read More]
Cargill backtracks on sustainability push for palm oil, says activist group [08.27.10]
Cargill has not suspended its relationship with a palm oil company recently exposed for misleading investors and buyers on its environmental transgressions, reports the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), an activist group campaigning against ... [Read More]
A report from the antitrust in agriculture USDA/DOJ hearing in Colorado [08.27.10]
JoelFarm Aid's farmer advocate Joel Morton traveled to Fort Collins, Colorado, this week to stand by America's family farmers and ranchers as they speak out about the lack of competition and fair markets in the livestock sector. Here's what he had ... [Read More]
The Dark Side of Family Business [08.27.10]
Americans love entrepreneurship, and no form of it is more celebrated than the family business. Most of us distrust big banks and giant corporations, but who doesn’t have warm feelings about mom and pop companies or family farms? [Read More]
Roundup: Want to Anger a LOT of Women? Propose Eliminating Epidurals to "Save Money" [08.27.10]
We all know that states are dealing with huge budget deficits, and that medical costs are skyrocketing. Well, one Utah legislator believes he has come up with a partial solution to the problem: deny epidurals for any pregnant woman on Medicaid. [Read More]
Infographic: Politicians Funded by Dirty Energy [08.26.10]
Just how much is that senator getting, and what companies are doling it out? [Read More]
USA: In Mott’s Strike, More Than Pay at Stake [08.26.10]
After nearly 90 days of picketing in the broiling sun outside the sprawling Mott’s apple juice plant here in upstate New York, Michelle Muoio recognizes that the lengthy strike is about far more than whether the 305 hourly workers at the plant get a ... [Read More]
BENMedia: Corporations supporting the criminalization of immigrants in the U.S. [08.26.10]
Enlace is a strategic alliance of low-wage worker centers, unions, and community organizations in Mexico and in the U.S., working with member organizations in battles for workers’ and human rights. [Read More]
Nigeria: Independent Figures Dispute UN’s Findings [08.26.10]
If a tobacco company gave the World Health Organisation a $10 million grant to examine the health effects of smoking, health campaigners would be outraged. They would also treat the results with great suspicion. [Read More]
WANTED: The worst corporations of the year. Call for nominations for the Public Eye Awards 2011 [08.26.10]
The Berne Declaration and Greenpeace Switzerland are once again on a global hunt for corporations whose social or ecological behavior stinks to high heaven. [Read More]
Shooting the Messenger Over CSR -- Again [08.26.10]
An editorial in Monday's Wall Street Journal, "The Case against Corporate Social Responsibility," by Associate Professor Aneel Karnani of the University of Michigan's School of Business, joins a number of other recent well-meaning, but uninformed, ... [Read More]
The Majestic Plastic Bag - mockumentary. [08.20.10]
Help stop a 19 billion bag-a--year habit in California and put an end to plastic pollution. Tell your Senator to support the AB 1998 at http://www.HealtheBay.org/BagBill [Read More]
INSTITUTE INDEX: BP is driving us mad [08.20.10]
According to a recent study, percent of households living within 10 miles of the Gulf coastline that have seen income drop because of the BP oil disaster: 20.6 [Read More]


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