RSN: Bernie Sanders: 'We've Won a Big, Big Victory in West Virginia', How the Electoral College Could Make Paul Ryan President in 2016

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Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman | How the Electoral College Could Make Paul Ryan President in 2016 
 
Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman, Reader Supported News 
Excerpt: "Just when you thought you'd heard everything about this year's chaotic race for the presidency, you might want to go back and look at the 12th Amendment. It could, among other things, make Paul Ryan president." 
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Bernie Sanders: 'We've Won a Big, Big Victory in West Virginia' 
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Excerpt: "U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders won big in West Virginia on Tuesday, handily defeating his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton and slashing her lead in the race for the party's nomination." 
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Jenna McLaughlin | Hackers Attempt to Hold Capitol Hill Data for Ransom 
Jenna McLaughlin, The Intercept 
McLaughlin writes: "The House is under attack by hackers hoping to infiltrate congressional computers, encrypt their contents, and then force users to pay a ransom to get their access back." 
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Poor People Don't Stand a Chance in Court 
Bryce Covert, Think Progress 
Covert writes: "When it comes to the civil court system, low-income Americans mostly have to fend for themselves." 
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Car Bomb in Baghdad Kills More Than 60 People 
Camila Domonoske, NPR News 
Domonoske writes: "A car bomb in Baghdad Wednesday morning killed dozens of people, in an attack that has been claimed by the Islamic State." 
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Inside China's Auto Worker Rebellion 
Herman Rosenfeld, Jacobin 
Rosenfeld writes: "Chinese auto workers are becoming increasingly militant, but lack mass, independent organizations." 
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Only Six Years After BP Oil Disaster, Gulf Coast Is Faced With New Drilling 
Kate Stringer, Yes! Magazine 
Stringer writes: "Still recovering from the worst oil spill in U.S. history, Gulf Coast activists battle the threat of new offshore oil wells." 
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RSN: Matt Taibbi | College Kids Aren't the Only Ones Demanding 'Safe Spaces', Offshoring Isn't Just a Problem in Panama, Nevada Has 1000 Secret Firms

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Matt Taibbi | College Kids Aren't the Only Ones Demanding 'Safe Spaces' 
 
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone 
Taibbi writes: "Conservatives who get hysterical about the campus 'safe spaces' controversy should take a look at their own media-consumption habits. It's hard to imagine anything funnier than a 70-year-old who watches 90 hours of Fox News a week and then rails against college kids who are afraid of new ideas." 
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Bill Clinton Tangles With Black Lives Matter Protesters 
Sam Frizell, TIME 
Frizell writes: "President Bill Clinton engaged repeatedly with Black Lives Matter protesters who interrupted a rally in Philadelphia on Thursday in a series of tense confrontations, defending his own and his wife Hillary's positions in the 1990s." 
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Watch Ellen DeGeneres Blast Mississippi's 'Religious Freedom' Law 
Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone 
Spanos writes: "Ellen DeGeneres spoke out against Mississippi's recently passed law that allows people to deny the LGBT community the right to adopt children, hold jobs or rent homes. She called the law 'the very definition of discrimination.'" 
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Offshoring Isn't Just a Problem in Panama, Nevada Has 1000 Secret Firms 
Steve Reilly, USA TODAY 
Reilly writes: "A new analysis of more than 1,000 American-based companies registered by Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the heart of the Panama Papers leak, casts the United States openly into an uncomfortable role: an offshore haven of corporate secrecy for wealthy business operations across the globe." 
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Expanding Medicaid Eligibility Would Help Low-Income Workers Find Better Jobs: Study 
Angelo Young, International Business Times 
Young writes: "A recent study suggests that more Americans would be emboldened to switch jobs if their access to health insurance wasn't tethered to their employers. This uniquely American system encourages so-called job lock, in which workers are fearful of migrating to potentially better-paying jobs out of fear of losing access to employer-subsidized access to medicine and doctor's visits." 
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Class-Action Suit Targets System That Added a Baby to Terrorist Watch List 
Ryan Devereaux, The Intercept 
Devereaux writes: "The watchlisting system has come under fire from attorneys across the country, who have blasted the procedures for secretly labeling individuals as known or suspected terrorists as discriminatory against Muslims, arbitrary in execution, and devoid of acceptable means for legal challenge and redress." 
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BP Supervisor Avoids Jail Time for 2010's Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill 
Kevin McGill, Associated Press 
McGill writes: "A former BP rig supervisor was sentenced Wednesday to 10 months' probation for a misdemeanor pollution charge connected to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill." 
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RSN: Professor Fired for Criticizing Israeli War Crimes on Twitter Wins Settlement From University, Chemicals Used in Oil Spill Cleanup Made Gulf Disaster Worse, Virginia: 'Officially Ends Veteran Homelessness'

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Paul Krugman | Austerity's Grim Legacy 
 
Paul Krugman, The New York Times 
Krugman writes: "In 2010, more or less suddenly, the policy elite on both sides of the Atlantic decided to stop worrying about unemployment and start worrying about budget deficits instead. This shift wasn't driven by evidence or careful analysis. In fact, it was very much at odds with basic economics." 
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Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman | Ohio Polls Showed Pot Legalization Winning ... But Then It Failed 2:1 
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, Columbus Free Press 
Excerpt: "In the lead-up to the November 3 referendum on pot legalization in Ohio, reputable mainstream polls show it winning. Then, amidst the usual 'glitches' that distinguish the Buckeye State's electronic elections, it officially failed by a 2:1 margin. The outcome is a virtual statistical impossibility. But it fits a pattern that has made Ohio elections infamous since the 2004 'selection' of George W. Bush over John Kerry." 
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Million Student March 2015: College Protesters Push for Free Tuition, No Debt and $15 Minimum Wage 
Julia Glum, International Business Times 
Glum writes: "The Million Student March's day of action was aimed at securing tuition-free public college, widespread debt forgiveness and a $15 minimum wage for people who work on campus. Though some of those ideas were playing prominent roles in the presidential campaign of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the organizers labeled themselves as independent." 
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Outsourced to Avoid Regulations: The Disturbing Truth About How US Airlines Maintain Their Planes 
James B. Steele, Vanity Fair 
Steele writes: "Airlines are shipping maintenance work offshore for the reason you'd expect: to cut labor costs. Mechanics in El Salvador, Mexico, China, and elsewhere earn a fraction of what mechanics in the U.S. do." 
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Virginia: 'Officially Ends Veteran Homelessness'
Jenna Portnoy and Laura Vozzella, The Washington Post 
Portnoy and Vozzella write: "Governor Terry McAuliffe announced Wednesday that Virginia is the first state to meet the federal definition of effectively ending homelessness among military veterans." 
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Professor Fired for Criticizing Israeli War Crimes on Twitter Wins Settlement From University 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Professor Steven Salaita reached a US$875,000 statement with University of Illinois after it fired him in 2014 for tweets critical of Israel and pro-Gaza." 
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Chemicals Used in Oil Spill Cleanup Made Gulf Disaster Worse 
Katie Herzog, Grist 
Herzog writes: "An estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Afterward, disaster response officials decided to drop chemical dispersants from airplanes over the site. Their hope was that these dispersants would break up the oil, making it easier for bacteria to consume the mess. Looks like that plan failed." 
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RSN: US Announces $20 Billion Resolution With BP Over 2010 Oil Spill, Republican Student Loan Bill Is a Handout to the Loan Industry, Doctors Without Borders: Kunduz Airstrike Was 'War Crime'

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Andy Borowitz | Americans Opposed to Being Shot Seek Representation in Washington 
 
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker 
Borowitz writes: "Americans who are opposed to being shot, a constituency that has historically failed to find representation in Washington, are making a new effort to make its controversial ideas heard in the nation's capital." 
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Doctors Without Borders: Kunduz Airstrike Was 'War Crime' 
Scott Neuman, NPR 
Neuman writes: "NATO in Afghanistan says it will lead an investigation into an airstrike in Kunduz this weekend that hit a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital, killing 22 people - an attack that the humanitarian organization, also known as Doctors Without Borders, has called 'a war crime.'" 
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Hillary Clinton's Clever Plan to Shrink the "Gun Show" Loophole 
Josh Voorhees, Slate 
Voorhees writes: "Hillary Clinton on Monday renewed her call for aggressive new gun safety measures aimed at curbing domestic violence and mass shootings, an effort that the Democratic front-runner has been pushing with increasing force since this summer's Charleston, South Carolina, massacre." 
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Republican Student Loan Bill Is a Handout to the Loan Industry 
Casey Quinlan, Think Progress 
Quinlan writes: "Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) and Sen. Shelley Moore (R-WV) introduced the Student Loan Relief Act of 2015 on Thursday, which would let borrowers refinance their federal student loans in the private market. The senators argue that if their legislation passed, students would be able to benefit from lower interest rates, but it's really the private market that has the most to gain from this bill." 
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Edward Snowden: US Has Not Offered Me a Plea Deal 
Ewen MacAskill, Guardian UK 
MacAskill writes: "The US justice department has made no effort to contact Edward Snowden to discuss a plea deal that would see him return from exile in Russia, the NSA whistleblower said in an interview." 
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When Did Republicans Become Obsessed With Reagan? 
Mark Fahey, CNBC 
Fahey writes: "Why do Americans remember Reagan so much more kindly than history suggests they should?" 
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US Announces $20 Billion Resolution With BP Over 2010 Oil Spill 
Susan Heavey and Emily Stephenson, Reuters 
Excerpt: "BP will pay more than $20 billion in fines to resolve nearly all claims from its deadly Gulf of Mexico oil spill five years ago, marking the largest corporate settlement of its kind in U.S. history, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Monday." 
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RSN: Chicago Tops in Fatal Police Shootings Among Big US Cities, Dylann Roof Is Not a "Terrorist" - But Animal Rights Activists Who Free Minks From Slaughter Are, UN Gives US Flunking Grades on Privacy and Surveillance Rights

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Glenn Greenwald | Dylann Roof Is Not a "Terrorist" - But Animal Rights Activists Who Free Minks From Slaughter Are 
 
Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept 
Greenwald writes: "The FBI on Friday announced the arrests in Oakland of two animal rights activists, Joseph Buddenberg and Nicole Kissane, and accused the pair of engaging in 'domestic terrorism.'" 
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Navy Probes Complaint of Cancer 'Cluster' Among Guantanamo Workers 
Al Jazeera America 
Excerpt: "Complaint says seven Gitmo employees developed cancer, and seeks evacuation and investigations; jet fuel dump suspected." 
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UN Gives US Flunking Grades on Privacy and Surveillance Rights 
Jenna McLaughlin, The Intercept 
McLaughlin writes: "The United States scores very low when it comes to protecting its citizens' privacy, according to a new United Nations Human Rights Committee review." 
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US Dentist Accused of Killing Cecil the Lion 'Upset' as Hunter Becomes Hunted 
Jessica Glenza, Ashifa Kassam and David Smith, Guardian UK 
Excerpt: "As Zimbabwean police say he faces poaching charges, Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer faces furious criticism on social media." 
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Chicago Tops in Fatal Police Shootings Among Big US Cities 
Andrew Schroedter, Better Government Association 
Schroedter writes: "Chicago police have fatally shot 70 people over a five-year span, tops among departments in the largest U.S. cities. The Chicago victims were nearly all male. Most were black. More than half of the killings happened in six South Side police districts. 
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Jonathan Pollard, Spy for Israel, to Be Released in November 
Greg Miller and Spencer S. Hsu, The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "Jonathan Pollard, a U.S. intelligence analyst who was convicted of spying for Israel in the 1980s and sentenced to life in prison, has been granted parole and will be released in November, according to his lawyers." 
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BP Reveals $6.3 Billion Quarterly Loss Owing to Deepwater Horizon Bill 
Graham Ruddick, Guardian UK 
Ruddick writes: "Extra charge of $10.8bn taken on by UK oil company follows $18.7bn legal settlement to cover US federal, state and local compensation claims." 
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RSN: Record Dolphin Die-Off Linked to Gulf Oil Spill, Koch Brothers Plan to Fund 'Several' GOP 2016 Presidential Hopefuls, Whatever Happened to Antitrust?

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Robert Reich | Whatever Happened to Antitrust?

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Reich writes: "Last week's settlement between the Justice Department and five giant banks reveals the appalling weakness of modern antitrust."
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Electronic Frontier Foundation | The Clock is Still Running: Neither NSA Reform Nor Reauthorization Advances in Senate
Lee Tien, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Tien writes: "In the wake of tonight's vote, Congress must stop stalling and address the surveillance and secrecy abuses of our government."
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The Real Memorial Day: Oliver Wendell Holmes's Salute to a Momentous American Anniversary
Malcolm Jones, The Daily Beast
Jones writes: "In 1884 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. gave a remarkable speech in which he explained how grief and memory for the fallen dead unite the nation on Memorial Day."
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Gloria Steinem Leads Women's Activists in Cross from North to South Korea
Yoonjung Seo and Anna Fifield, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "A group of international women's activists made a rare crossing from North Korea into South Korea on Sunday, hailing the trip as a 'first step in the right direction' toward bridging divisions between the estranged countries."
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Koch Brothers Plan to Fund 'Several' GOP 2016 Presidential Hopefuls
David Knowles, Bloomberg
Knowles writes: "The world's fifth and sixth richest people say they will donate money to multiple Republican presidential candidates in the coming campaign."
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Malaysia Migrant Crisis: Police Reveal 139 Grave Sites, Some With Multiple Corpses
Beh Lih Yi, Guardian UK
Yi writes: "Dozens of suspected people-smuggling camps also discovered in north of the country on border with Thailand."
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Record Dolphin Die-Off Linked to Gulf Oil Spill
Anastasia Pantsios, EcoWatch
Pantsios writes: "It was more than five years ago when the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico blew out, spewing an unknown amount of oil. The April 2010 accident was the worst oil spill to ever occur in U.S. waters and it had far-reaching impacts on the region's economy and ecosystems that continue to this day."
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"Lesions in the lungs and shrunken adrenal glands distinguish dolphins that washed up dead in the Gulf of Mexico between June 2010 and December 2012 compared with those found in beachings elsewhere. As a result, researchers have linked the mass deaths to BP's oil spill."
 

BP Oil Spill Responsible for Gulf of Mexico Dolphin Deaths

New autopsy results confirm mass dolphin strandings largely stemmed from BP's 2010 Macondo well blowout

scientificamerican.com|By David Biello

The Wilderness Society

BREAKING. Internal documents from BP show they would have to bring equipment from Texas to contain an oil spill off the South Australian coastline.

BP have prop...osed to drill four exploratory deep sea wells in a whale sanctuary off the Great Australian Bight. These wild and pristine waters are the nursery for southern right whales and their mums before they make their way down to Antarctica for summer.

This report concedes that here in South Australia, in the event of a disaster, a second rig would be positioned to drill a “relief” well, which would take 157 days, BP says. 157 DAYS.

In comparison, the Deep Horizon Spill in the Gulf of Mexico couldn’t be contained for 87 days – the havoc and the devastation of the spill is still being felt, five years on.

Pete Owen, the head of the Wilderness Society South Australia office said BP’s attempts to drill the Bight were not right.

“Of all the places to be turning into an oil field, the Great Australian Bight is not it. This is akin to what Shell is trying to do in the Arctic – it’s utterly inappropriate.”

Sign the petition calling on BP to stay away from our coastlines: http://bit.ly/1DBKXQx

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Corp Watch: BP Sued By Mexican Fishing Businesses for Deepwater Horizon Spill, Deutsche Bank Pays $2.5 Billion Fine For Interest Rate Rigging

BP Sued By Mexican Fishing Businesses for Deepwater Horizon Spill
Richard Smallteacher
May 7th, 2015

British Petroleum (BP) has been sued by some 25,000 Mexican fishing businesses over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The company says it has paid $1.8 billion in compensation to U.S. businesses but has yet to offer money to those affected south of the border.

Pelican affected by Deepwater Horizon spill. Photo: Louisiana GOHSEP. Used under Creative Commons license.

Deutsche Bank Pays $2.5 Billion Fine For Interest Rate Rigging
Pratap Chatterjee
April 27th, 2015

Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay out a record $2.5 billion fine to settle U.K. and U.S. government investigations into allegations of fixing global interest rates, just months after six other banks paid out $4.3 billion on similar charges. Activists say that the banks should have faced criminal charges.


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Nothing has changed except our knowledge of just how destructive a major offshore oil spill can be, and the visceral memories of watching our lifestyle translate into dead birds and dolphins.

PERSPECTIVES

Five Years After: Deepwater Horizon’s Lessons Go Unlearned

April 21, 2015

by Miyoko Sakashita

 

 

This post first appeared at Common Dreams.

BP Oil Spill in 2010. (Photo: kris krüg/flickr CC 2.0)

Remember that helpless, infuriating feeling watching gallon after gallon of oil spew into the Gulf of Mexico in the spring and summer of 2010?

After Deepwater Horizon – the worst oil spill disaster in US history – came the mantra: Never again.

But now, as we mark the fifth anniversary of BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster – which killed hundreds of thousands of dolphins, whales and other sea life, not to mention claimed the lives of 11 men and fouled hundreds of miles of oceans and beaches – I’m left wondering whether we’ve learned anything at all.

In fact, it seems like quite the opposite: The Obama administration has now launched new offshore oil exploration in the Gulf of Mexico and the Arctic and Atlantic oceans. Rather than heed the warnings of Deepwater Horizon, the administration seems determined to double-down on dangerous offshore drilling.
 

(Photo: Gov. Jindal’s office/ Louisiana GOHSEP/ Flickr CC 2.0)

This reckless pursuit of more fossil fuel comes with major and predictable costs. In the Arctic, an oil spill would be devastating for polar bears, walruses and other wildlife – and impossible to clean up in such harsh conditions. In the Atlantic, even the seismic search for oil will injure or kill 138,000 dolphins and whales, the federal government estimates, including nine endangered North Atlantic right whales.
 

So what did we learn from that nauseating experience of watching the Deepwater Horizon oil flow and flow, more than 200 million gallons of thick, black crude that coated and killed hundreds of dolphins, birds and other wildlife? New studies are showing that the chemical dispersants that were used after the spill are still hurting wildlife in myriad ways that we barely understand.
 

Then maybe we learned better ways to address major oil spills? But we haven’t, because the inescapable reality is that once we spill massive quantities of oil into sensitive ocean habitats, the damage has been done and there’s no going back. Nothing has changed except our knowledge of just how destructive a major offshore oil spill can be, and the visceral memories of watching our lifestyle translate into dead birds and dolphins.
 

Is the lesson, then, that massive oil spills are just the price of living in the modern age? Well, no, because over the past five years we’ve also learned that human-induced climate change is happening faster than we realized and with more dire consequences. The oceans that cover 75 percent of the planet will rise, they will become more acidic and carry less oxygen, and entire life-giving ecological systems will be altered in dangerous and unpredictable ways.
 

So then, I can’t see any lessons that we’ve learned from Deepwater Horizon and our insatiable and reckless pursuit of new oil to burn and cook our planet with, unless it’s this: leave the oil in the ground. That’s where it belongs.
 

The views expressed in this post are the author’s alone, and presented here to offer a variety of perspectives to our readers.
 

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Miyoko Sakashita is a senior attorney and director of the Oceans Project at the Center for Biological Diversity.

Taxpayers subsidizing BP Negligence?

Why should American taxpayers pick up the tab for BP's negligence?

BP is a foreign corporation that plafced the bottom line ahead of human life and the environment.

The environmental destruction BP caused will never be un-done.

PLEASE ADD YOUR NAME:

Last week, a federal judge rejected oil giant BP's move to reduce its $13.7-billion fine for the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. Even so, BP is still not paying the full cost of cleanup—they've already written off 80% of their payments as tax deductions.¹ Can you add your name and ask President Obama to tell the Justice Department to end this practice and make sure BP claims no more write-offs for its wrongdoings?

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Dear MoveOn member,

I'm Anya Vanecek from U.S.PIRG, and I started a petition to President Barack Obama, which says:

Settlement payments for corporate misconduct should not just be a cost of doing business. Don't let BP claim any more tax deductions for the Gulf oil spill.

BP has paid about $42 billion to address the Deepwater Horizon disaster since oil first started spilling in 2010. About 80% of those payments have qualified for tax deductions, effectively shifting the cost of BP’s "gross negligence" onto taxpayers.¹

The practice of writing off settlement agreements is both legal and common—but it doesn't have to be.

Should BP be able to write off its payments made to address the Gulf Coast oil spill? Should Wall Street banks be allowed to deduct their settlements for mortgage abuses as business as usual?

Tell the Justice Department to allow no tax deductibility for BP in the upcoming Gulf spill settlement and to make other future settlements for corporate misconduct nondeductible as well.

These write-offs send the wrong message. They diminish the value of settlements as a deterrent to future misbehavior. They are also costly for the public, because taxpayers must make up for the lost revenue through cuts to public programs, higher tax rates, or more federal debt. When settlements become write-offs, Americans pay both for the cost of corporate misbehavior and to subsidize the tax write-offs.

It's time to demand an end to this practice: no more write-offs for corporate wrongdoing.

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks!

–Anya

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1. "When Company Is Fined, Taxpayers Often Share Bill," The New York Times, February 3, 2015
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