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2008 Benny and Path to Victory Award Nominees [10.12.08]
The Business Ethics Network introduced the annual BENNY Awards in 2005 to recognize outstanding corporate campaign victories. In 2007 we introduced our Path to Victory Award to recognize outstanding achievements in campaigns which advance them ... [Read More]
Absolving Your Sins and CYA: Corporations Embrace Voluntary Codes of Conduct [08.27.08]
"We do not want children to smoke,” British American Tobacco (BAT) declares on its website. But the company that describes itself as the “world’s most international tobacco group” routinely violates its own voluntary international marketing and ... [Read More]
Bayer Pesticides Cause Mass Death of Bees [08.27.08]
The German Coalition against Bayer Dangers today brought a charge against Werner Wenning, chairman of the Bayer Board of Management, with the Public Prosecutor in Freiburg (south-western Germany). The group accuses Bayer of marketing dangerous ... [Read More]
Parents Urged to Report Children's Reactions to Food Dyes [08.26.08]
The Center for Science in the Public Interest is asking America's parents for help in its campaign to convince the Food and Drug Administration that synthetic dyes, such as Yellow 5 and Red 40, don't belong in foods, especially those consumed by ... [Read More]
Files Show Governor Intervened With Court [08.26.08]
When Gov. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia filed a friend-of-the-court brief in June arguing that the State Supreme Court should review a $382 million judgment against the DuPont Company, he said he was not taking sides, but acting in the interest ... [Read More]
Looming Energy Crisis In Mexico Stirs Debate [08.25.08]
Reform of Mexico's state-run oil company continues to dominate Mexican politics. There have been numerous debates and referendums on a proposal by President Felipe Calderon to open the struggling oil monopoly to foreign investors. [Read More]
Report Says Public Outreach, Done Right, Aids Policymaking [08.25.08]
For decades, laws have required many government agencies to seek public participation in the establishment of environmental policies. And for decades critics have derided the requirement as producing little more than confusion, delay, expense, ... [Read More]
Sarbanes-Oxley Upheld By Court as Constitutional [08.24.08]
An appeals court yesterday upheld the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, dismissing arguments that the government's attempt to protect investors from repeats of the scandals at Enron and WorldCom gave federal overseers unchecked power. [Read More]
Maine Conservationists Reach Milestone in Plan to Buy 3 Dams [08.23.08]
A Maine environmental coalition announced Thursday that it had raised the $25 million it needed to buy three dams from a power company under an agreement to restore a number of fish species in the Penobscot River. [Read More]
Court Rejects E.P.A. Limits on Emissions Rules [08.23.08]
A federal appeals court on Tuesday threw out an Environmental Protection Agency rule limiting the ability of states to require monitoring of industrial emissions. [Read More]
Immigrants, Unions and the New U.S. Labor Market [08.22.08]
In recent years, New Yorkers have been surprised to see workers they had taken for granted—Mexicans in greengroceries, West African supermarket deliverymen and South Asian limousine drivers—striking, picketing, and seeking support for better working ... [Read More]
Is Wal-Mart stealing money meant to help low-income women and children? [08.21.08]
Wal-Mart has, unsurprisingly, been the target of more lawsuits than one can count over the years. The company’s treatment of its workers and “save money at all costs” mentality has resulted in a flood of legal challenges ranging from single ... [Read More]
River Oil Spill Paints Messy Picture in Offshore Drilling Debate [08.20.08]
With 100 miles of dark, slick oil covering its surface, the Mississippi River winds its way towards the Gulf of Mexico, leaving citizens across the nation once again reminded of the many reasons why we must move beyond our dependence on oil. [Read More]
Watching NY Sweatshops: Current Laws Soon Expire [audio] [08.20.08]
In June, Massachusetts-based "Sweat-Free Communities" released a report that found several U.S. states, cities and counties inadvertently using millions of taxpayer dollars to purchase goods from companies engaged in serious human rights violations. ... [Read More]
Companies bid millions to tap Western Gulf [08.20.08]
Energy companies bid hundreds of millions of dollars Wednesday to explore for oil and natural gas beneath 1.8 million acres in the western Gulf of Mexico, while looking forward to the possibility of future drilling in federal waters now off-limits. [Read More]
Stacy Malkan comments on toxics in cosmetics [08.19.08]
Stacy Malkan, co-founder of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, comments on toxics in cosmetics. [Read More]
The Bear Stearns Conspiracy [08.18.08]
This is one scandal the National Enquirer has not reported. No babies with mystery fathers, no former vice presidential candidates cowering in a hotel basement to escape the paparazzi. [Read More]
CUC National Committee Members Attacked by Gunfire and Kidnapped: Biofuel Agro Businesses Violently Repress Communities [08.18.08]
Rights Action is extremely concerned for the safety of members of the National Committee of CUC (the Campesino Unity Committee), and for the safety of members of the Maya Keqchi communities of La Isla, Caserio el Mirador Semao, Corazon de Mais, and ... [Read More]
Susan Casey-Lefkowitz of the Natural Resources Defense Council on tarsands [08.18.08]
NRDC speaks about the environmental consequences of extracting oil from tar sands. [Read More]
VICTORY!A Decade of Consumer Pressure Is Driving Monsanto's Bovine Growth Hormone off the Market [08.13.08]
Monsanto announces its selling its posilac division that makes bovine growth hormone. St. Louis-based Monsanto announced today it is selling the division that produces bovine growth hormone, also known as rBGH or rBST. [Read More]
Scottish Anglers Condemn Marine Harvest Debris [08.12.08]
An angling group is calling on the world’s biggest fish farming company to clean up its act and remove the debris that it left behind at a former fish farm in a Special Area of Conservation in Ardnamurchan. [Read More]
VX supply destruction completed at Indiana depot [08.12.08]
An Army contractor has finished three years of work on destroying a deadly nerve agent stored in western Indiana and is now moving ahead to dismantle the equipment built for the billion-dollar project, officials said Monday. [Read More]
No defense for this [08.11.08]
Federal officials arrested more than 300 illegal immigrant workers at the Michael Bianco Inc. factory, a waterfront plant that produced backpacks for the military. Inside, they found awful working conditions. [Read More]
VICTORY! International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal [08.11.08]
The Government of India has announced that it will take legal action on the civil and criminal liabilities of Union Carbide and Dow Chemical for the ongoing disaster in Bhopal, India. [Read More]
California lawmakers weigh chemical ban in baby items [08.10.08]
Responding to growing consumer anxiety, California lawmakers are considering enacting what could be the first statewide restrictions on a chemical found in plastic baby bottles and infant formula cans. [Read More]


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