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If You Thought Corporate Personhood Was Bad, Wait
Until You See Corporate Nationhood in the New Trade Treaty
El Salvador was concerned that its water was being polluted by mining companies, so it passed a moratorium on new mines in 2008. Oceana Gold, an Australian corporation, didn’t like the law, so it sued El Salvador for $301 million. The case was not heard in a Salvadoran court, but rather by a secretive corporate tribunal based in the United States and overseen by a panel of three corporate lawyers. Corporations suing governments in this way sounds like fiction, but it's all too real, thanks to trade pacts. Now the push is on to approve the next big "trade" agreement – the Trans-Pacific Partnership – that would make this problem even worse and directly impact the U.S. Read more. |
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House Gives $334 Billion Tax Break to 25 Richest
Americans
The House of Representatives gave 25 of the nation’s billionaires a $334 billion tax break on April 16 when it voted to repeal the estate tax. The repeal would allow the nation’s wealthiest citizens to pass on all of their enormous wealth to their heirs with no taxes paid. This removes a powerful incentive for charitable giving and starves our nation of resources that we could use to fix failing bridges, repair crumbling schools, and help students being crushed by debt. Read more. |
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Procter & Gamble Receives an "F" in Chemical
Transparency
“Eco-friendly.” “Healthy.” “Responsible.” These are just a few of the labels used on household cleaning products to make them appear safe for consumers. But no one oversees how these terms are used or what they really mean. This becomes readily apparent when you scrutinize the ingredients on cleaning product labels to try to determine how safe and "green" they really are. One company – Procter & Gamble – is so bad at disclosing useful chemical information to consumers that it recently received an "F" from a national environmental health group. Read more. |
