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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
- 9 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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Video: The Obama Pipeline?
Business  (tags: climate, climate-change, climatechange, CO2emissions, conservation, destruction, environment, protection, Sustainabililty, government, globalwarming, globalwarming, energy, money, oil, politics, ethics, dishonesty, economy, corporate, americans, business )

JL
- 19 days ago - rebuildthedream.com
In our newest video, Rebuild the Dream President and former Obama administration green jobs advisor Van Jones cuts through the myths around Keystone XL -- and explains who will be to blame if the pipeline is approved
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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
- 27 days ago - motherjones.com
Industrial farming has played a part in sucking this critical element out of our soil.
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Mine in the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness Blocked for Now
Business  (tags: conservation, destruction, environment, protection, pollution, wildlife, Sustainabililty, nature, news, goodnews, GoodNews, business, corruption, corporate, ethics, usa, SustainableDevelopment )

JL
- 33 days ago - wildernesswatch.org
A Montana court ruling has added a legal roadblock to plans by a Spokane company to develop a large silver and copper mine in northwest Montana, including a portion that bores under the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness.
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Home Depot, Lowe's and Others: Stop Selling Bee-Poisoning Neonicotinoids | SumOfUs
Business  (tags: consumers, business, money, nature, protection )

Candy
- 40 days ago - action.sumofus.org
Lowe's & Home Depot still stock their shelves with neonicotinoid pesticides, spreading the ecosystem-destroying toxin to homes & gardens across the United States. As consumers, we need to demand that these retailers pull the devastating pesticides
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Bain Capital: Don't Intimidate Workers | SumOfUs
Business  (tags: workers, rights, corporate, consumers, protection, healthcare, treatment, abuse )

Candy
- 43 days ago - action.sumofus.org
Workers at the iconic music store Guitar Center are seeing their wages slashed and their benefits gutted by none other than Bain Capital. Sign our petition
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Activists to Fracking Corporation EQT: "Elections Are Not for Shale!"
Business  (tags: abuse, americans, business, corporate, corruption, conservation, destruction, water, nature, healthconditions, science, pollution, protection, corruption, corporate, dishonesty, ethics, investing, investments, investors, law, lies, marketing, money, socie )

JL
- 58 days ago - citizenvox.org
Activists gathered and rallied in Pittsburgh outside of EQT Corporation's April 17 shareholder meeting to call on the multinational gas giant to keep its corporate money out of the people's elections.
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Private Letters Shows Pesticide Companies Desperate Attempt to Protect Bee-Killing Pesticides.
Business  (tags: dishonesty, business, corruption, economy, pesticides, ethics, environment, corporate, abuse, wildlife, protection, animals )

Cal
- 62 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Private letters from Syngenta and Bayer showed the pesticide companies forceful lobbying against a proposed European ban on neonicotinoids, a group of pesticides shown to have harmful effects on wildlife.
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Coal and Cattle Lead Business Damage to Nature-Study
Business  (tags: UnitedNations, world, nature, climate-change, climatechange, environment, Sustainabililty, research, science, protection, government, globalwarming, conservation, business, sustainabledevelopment, SustainableDevelopment, news, usa, economy )

JL
- 64 days ago - reuters.com
U.N.-backed report ranks businesses by impact on environment * Cattle ranching in South America ranks second worst
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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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(BLM)Socioeconomic Impact--WA and OR
Business  (tags: conservation, habitat, government, ecosystems, protection, Sustainabililty, water, wildlife, trees, americans, labor, money, finance, ethics, economy )

JL
- 69 days ago - blm.gov
Employment Through the use of contracts, partnerships and special initiatives, the BLM employs local workers to fight fires, build bridges, and conduct fish and wildlife habitat improvement projects. These jobs result in cost savings for the state
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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
- 71 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
10 comments
Reporters Say Exxon Is Impeding Spill Coverage in Arkansas
Business  (tags: Exxon oil spill, politics, protection, ecosystems, environment, corporate, corruption, dishonesty, news, oil, society, money, politics )

Cal
- 71 days ago - motherjones.com
Reporters covering the oil spill from ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline in Mayflower, Arkansas, are reporting that they've been blocked from the site and threatened with arrest.
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