10 Mar 2010 // Washington,
D.C. - CREW executive director Melanie Sloan stated today,
“CREW applauds House Democrats for finally recognizing that the
American public is tired of watching members of Congress trade earmarks
for campaign contributions. This is a terrific first step in breaking
the link between campaign dollars and legislation.” More»
10 Mar 2010 // House Democratic leaders
banned Wednesday the practice of doling out multimillion-dollar, no-bid
contracts to private contractors, a move that will shake up the
lobbying industry that has come to rely on securing these so-called
earmarks for their corporate clients.
10 Mar 2010 // The Justice Department
report released last month on the crafting of the
so-called torture memos contained a number of eyebrow-raising
revelations—but none perhaps as intriguing as the disclosure that
More»
10 Mar 2010 // Washington,
D.C. - Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in
Washington (CREW) and 45 open-government groups sent a letter to the
chairmen and ranking members of the House Oversight and Government
Reform and Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs committees
requesting hearings into the destruction of Department of Justice (DOJ)
emails in violation of the Federal Records Act (FRA). More»
10 Mar 2010 // Mark Critz — the aide to
the late Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) who was picked as the Democratic
candidate to replace his boss — attended a 2005 meeting of defense
contractors and lobbyists and offered the Congressman’s support for an
earmark project that ended in the criminal convictions of three men
last year.
10 Mar 2010 // The U.S. Federal Reserve
has a tangible coup to wave in front of politicians this week: A move
by Bank of America to sacrifice overdraft fees on debit cards.
10 Mar 2010 // WASHINGTON — Senator Bob
Corker, the Tennessee Republican who is playing a crucial role in
bipartisan negotiations over financial regulation, pressed to remove a
provision from draft legislation that would have empowered federal
authorities to crack down on payday lenders, people involved in the
talks said. More»
10 Mar 2010 // The race for the Republican
Party's presidential nomination has started, though the election itself
is 32 months away. Even in a place so brash and up-front as the United
States there is some subtlety, at least at this stage, about the
process. More»
10 Mar 2010 Environmental lawyers and activists on Monday
sued the European Commission for failing to release studies
investigating the impact of biofuels on the environment.
5 Mar 2010 Amidst allegations that Canadian mining
companies operating in Latin America have been complicit in the murders
and harassment of activists, several positive developments in Canada
are seen as a source of hope that firms may begin to be held
accountable on human rights and environmental questions.
4 Mar 2010 Ugandas members of parliament (MPs) are
pressurising government to make public details of oil
production-sharing agreements it signed with various international oil
companies.
2 Mar 2010 In the rural, tribal lands of Eastern India,
protesters are going head-to-head with world steel giant Arcelor
Mittal. We may give away our lives, but we will not part with an inch
of our ancestral land," the villagers cry. "The forest, rivers and land
are ours. We don't want factories, steel or iron. Arcelor Mittal Go
Back.
1 Mar 2010 Apple Inc. said it found more than a dozen
serious violations of labor laws or Apple's own rules at its suppliers
that needed immediate correction. The findings were outlined in a
company report on audits of 102 supplier facilities conducted in
2009.
1 Mar 2010 In separate statements, BP America,
ConocoPhillips and Caterpillar are quitting the Climate Action
Partnership, a group in Washington that has sought to find common
ground among corporations and environmental groups in battling global
warming.
28 Feb 2010 Legal headaches are growing exponentially for
the security firm formerly known as Blackwater once the darling of
the military-industrial community.
26 Feb 2010 Afghan police are widely considered corrupt and
unable to shoot straight; they die at twice the rate of Afghan soldiers
and NATO troops despite $7 billion spent on training and salaries in
the last eight years. A new high-level report says that the State
Department's contract with DynCorp is at fault.
25 Feb 2010 Report for the UN into the activities of the
world's 3,000 biggest companies estimates one-third of profits would be
lost if firms were forced to pay for use, loss and damage of
environment
23 Feb 2010 The latest act of defiance against the backdrop
of unrest since 1997 among communities, environmental and rights
activists over the 2.13 billon U.S. dollar mining project by Vedanta
Aluminium Ltd, the Indian arm of London-based Vedanta Resources
Plc.
19 Feb 2010 Critics are concerned that private military
contractors are positioning themselves at the centre of an emerging
"shock doctrine" for earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
18 Feb 2010 A former U.S. military contractor has pleaded
guilty to federal charges in a kickback scheme involving Army
contracting officials
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