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Forever Chemicals Poisoning Our Food

Peter Kuper Oct 17, 2024 Dig deeper

Trump’s EPA Poses Huge Cancer Risks

Sam Pizzigati / OtherWords Jan 27, 2020 Industry-friendly regulators are letting chemical companies flood the country with toxins. It should be a scandal. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

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Another Trump Official Has Been Caught Red-Handed

Derek Kravitz / ProPublica Jan 14, 2020 A senior Agriculture Department official and ex-lobbyist repeatedly shared information with her former industry on policy and enforcement. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Energy Agency Rejects Trump Bid to Boost Coal, Nuclear Power

MATTHEW DALY / The Associated Press Jan 8, 2018 The decision by the GOP-controlled Federal Energy Regulatory Commission comes amid repeated promises by the president to revive coal as the nation's top power source. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Defender of Chemical Companies Takes Charge of EPA Unit Overseeing Toxins

By Lauren Coleman-Lochner / Bloomberg May 24, 2017 She has represented the American Chemistry Council, an industry group whose members include Dow Chemical Co. and ExxonMobil. Now Nancy Beck has moved to the Environmental Protection Agency. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Antonin Scalia: Corporate America’s Billion-Dollar Friend

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Feb 27, 2016 A Dow Chemical settlement made public Friday indicates that the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was worth billions of dollars to business. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Radical U.N. Report Promotes Democratic Control of Food and an End to Corporate Domination

Sonali Kolhatkar / Truthdig Mar 20, 2014 A new report submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council on the "Right to Food" took aim at the entire basis on which food is produced and distributed on a global scale. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Corporations Enlist Ex-U.S. Spies to Surveil Nonprofits

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Nov 26, 2013 A new report reveals how corporations use ex-U.S. intelligence agents to spy on environmental, anti-war, consumer safety and other kinds of nonprofit groups they regard as potential threats. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Democracy Now!’: WikiLeaks Catches Stratfor Tracking Activists

Staff / Truthdig Feb 28, 2012 In this clip from Tuesday's edition of "Democracy Now!," one Andy Bichlbaum of The Yes Men tells host Amy Goodman about being monitored by Stratfor, the spying firm targeted by Anonymous in a bit of holiday season hackery late last year. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )