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State Agency Taking Steps to Make Sure Polluters Pay
Business  (tags: corruption, ethics, economy, government, GoodNews, military, usa, climate, ecosystems, destruction, environment, healthconditions, humans, nature, protection, science, research, goodnews )

JL
- 10 days ago - california2.sierraclub.org
The California state agency responsible for cleaning up contaminated sites, ranging from former military bases to mom-and-pop dry cleaners, has recently disclosed that it failed to collect cleanup costs from polluters resulting in taxpayers footing the b
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Corporate Accountability International Support the Big Apple
Business  (tags: environment, pollution, humans, healthconditions, protection, culture, corporate, business )

Candy
- 17 days ago - act.stopcorporateabuse.org
Big Tobacco spends millions on point-of-sale ads for this simple reason: they are effective in attracting new smokers, especially youth smokers.
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UN Working Group: Business Obligations Include Well-Being of Workers
Business  (tags: humanrights, humans, ethics, death, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', society, usa, UnitedNations, unitednations, abuse, business, consumers, corporate, dishonesty, corruption, ethics, humans, investing, investments, investors, law, lies, marketing, mone )

JL
- 24 days ago - theinterdependent.com
The Bangladesh garment-factory collapse highlights the need for businesses to follow the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, writes Z.P. Heller.The principles say that businesses have an obligation to protect the well-being of
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You Need Phosphorous to Live--and We're Running Out
Business  (tags: diet, health, humans, prevention, nutrition, protection, science, society, warning, marketing, money, politics, finance, farming, corporate, business, abuse, world, SustainableDevelopment )

JL
- 28 days ago - motherjones.com
Industrial farming has played a part in sucking this critical element out of our soil.
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82-Year-Old Connecticut Barber Offers the Homeless Haircuts in Exchange for Hugs
Business  (tags: humans, society, compasion, love, hugs, americans, abuse, economy, corruption, politics )

Evelyn
- 30 days ago - thedenverchannel.com
Each Wednesday, barber Anthony Cymerys sets up his chair in the shade of an oak tree in Hartford's Bushnell Park. For longtime clients, the homeless or those just down on their luck, the fee is always the same: a hug for a haircut..
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Video:Charts: Why You're in Deep Trouble If You Can't Afford a Lawyer
Business  (tags: abuse, americans, culture, crime, dishonesty, ethics, family, freedoms, government, law, politics, rights, society, safety, women, police, congress, economy, propaganda, SupremeCourt, usa, labor, investments, humans, corruption, consumers, americans, abus )

JL
- 39 days ago - motherjones.com
Fifty years after the groundbreaking "Gideon" ruling, public defenders are overworked, underpaid--and America's poor are paying the price.
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Nestle Patents the Fennel Flower? Corporate Trolls and Privatization
Business  (tags: nestle, patents, privatize, water, capitalism, eqialmoney, elf, equallife, environment, endangered, government, humans, nature, world, politics, ecosystems, globalwarming, corporate, dishonesty, economy, ethics, money )

Bernard
- 56 days ago - paintersjourneytolife.wordpress.com
and while ordinary people do ordinary things, corporations like Nestlé are are privatizing drinking water and trying to patent plants like the Fennel Flower. The human race will NOT stop this -- that is certain!
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Firefox 'Death Sentence' Threat to TeliaSonera Over Gov Spy Claims
Business  (tags: abuse, business, consumers, corporate, ethics, GoodNews, goodnews, society, law, humans, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', humanrights, HumanRights, technology )

JL
- 62 days ago - theregister.co.uk
Firefox-maker Mozilla could issue a "death sentence" to TeliaSonera's SSL business over allegations the telecoms giant sold Orwellian surveillance tech to dictators. The punishment would be an embarrassing blow to the company: it would effectively cut of
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The Rich Get Richer, the Poor Go Hungry, Mountains of Food IS Available!
Business  (tags: rich, poor, hunger, hungry, equalmoney, wealth, activists, government, news, politics, society, world, humans, freedoms, economy, investors, money, sustainabledevelopment, SustainableDevelopment, foreclosures )

Bernard
- 62 days ago - globalpolicy.org
Most hunger in the world has absolutely nothing to do with food shortages. Most people who go to bed hungry, both in rich and in poor countries, do so in places where markets are filled with food that they cannot have. 2013 - no change yet
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Video:Parachute Creek Contamination Spreads, Spurs Calls for More Regulations, Fines
Business  (tags: water, science, pollution, protection, healthconditions, humans, nature, abuse, americans, business, consumers, corporate, corruption, cover-up, dishonesty, ethics, money, law, society, usa )

JL
- 67 days ago - kdvr.com
One month after workers first observed a hydrocarbon leak in groundwater beneath a gas treatment facility here, concerned residents and state investigators are still perplexed about how the leak began and when.
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Online Data Brokers May Be Subject to the Federal Credit Reporting Act
Business  (tags: abuse, americans, business, consumers, corruption, dishonesty, ethics, humans, law, lies, marketing, money, society, usa, news, debt )

JL
- 68 days ago - pubcit.typepad.com
The Federal Trade Commission has warned operators of six websites that share information about consumers' rental histories with landlords that they may be subject to the requirements of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).
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Please Sign!! Walmart and Gap: Face the Human Consequences of Your Race to the Bottom | SumOfUs
Business  (tags: walmart, garment factory fire, tazreen, bangladesh, survivor, ethics, corporate, abuse, humans, money )

Tamara
- 70 days ago - action.sumofus.org
Today, Sumi Abedin and Kalpona Akter are landing in the United States from their native Bangladesh. Sumi is a survivor of last November's deadly fire at the Walmart-contracted Tazreen garment factory. The fire killed 117 of her fellow workers. They were
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Efforts to Deliver "Kill Shot" to Paid Sick Leave Tied to ALEC
Business  (tags: children, babies, family, ethics, health, humans, illness, protection, risks, safety, women, society, prevention, investments, labor, law, consumers )

JL
- 72 days ago - prwatch.org
In a victory for working families, New York is poised to become the largest U.S. city to require businesses offer paid sick days to workers
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How Dangerous Is the Lead in Bullets?
Business  (tags: health, disease, ethics, research, protection, prevention, safety, risks, science, society, treatment, warning, investigation, humans, lies, marketing, consumers, labor )

JL
- 77 days ago - motherjones.com
It's all in the lead. A recent report from the National Academy of Sciences found that OSHA lead exposure standards are too lax to protect military firing range employees.
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