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‘Corporate Greed’ to Blame for Soaring Food Prices, FTC Report Says

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Manure Digesters — Another Climate Solution Scam?

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World on Track to Dump 220 Million Tons of Plastic Waste This Year

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Norfolk Southern to Pay $600 Million to Settle Ohio Train Derailment Lawsuit

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EPA Allows Highly Toxic Weedkiller on Food Crops — But Not Golf Courses

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95% of These Fruits and Vegetables Tested Positive for Pesticides

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Norfolk Southern CEO’s Pay Jumped to $13 Million After Toxic Train Derailment in Ohio

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U.S. Factory Farms Churn Out 940 Billion Pounds of Hazardous Manure Every Year

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Exxon, Chevron Paid Combined $59 Billion to Shareholders as Consumers Struggle to Pay Soaring Utility Bills

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240,000 ‘Toxic’ Plastic Particles Found in Average Liter of Bottled Water

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Patients Face Greater Risks at Hospitals Acquired by Private Equity Firms, Study Reveals

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Social Media Giants Raked in Nearly $11 Billion in Ad Revenue From Kids and Teens Under 18

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FTC Aims to Cut Down on Tracking of Kids Online Activity by Companies ‘Looking to Hoard and Monetize’ Personal Data

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‘Out of Excuses’: ‘Groundbreaking’ Legal Petition Demands EPA Ban Glyphosate

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Oops! Scientists Botch ‘Darling’ Genetically Engineered Tree

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Facebook Sues FTC in Bid to Keep Profiting Off Kids’ Data

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Big Oil Lobbying Sabotages Plastics Treaty Talks

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Forest Service to Allow Industry to Dump Dangerous Carbon Waste on Public Lands

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Toxic Flame Retardants Contaminating Wildlife On Every Continent

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'Train Wreck': Company Behind CP2 Gas Export Project Has History of Environmental Violations

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Letter to Cargill: ‘Stop the Destruction of Our Land’

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An ‘AI Bill of Rights?’ Congress Members Call for Official Federal Policy

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‘Carbon Capture’ Schemes Require Miles of CO2 Pipelines — What Happens When They Rupture?

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Clouds Full of Microplastics May Be Contaminating Everything We Eat and Drink

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Investigation: Most Corporate Carbon Offset Schemes 'Likely Junk or Worthless’

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Majority of Americans Reject Pharma’s Reasons for Trying to Block Medicare From Negotiating Lower Drug Prices

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Congress Has Been Slow to Regulate AI — Could Lawmakers’ Investments in Tech Firms Have Something to Do With That?

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Big Energy Climate Scams Dump Toxic Pollutants on Small Towns

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Google to Face Off Against DOJ Over Allegations Tech Giant Monopolizes Online Search Market

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Shell's Malfunctioning Pennsylvania Plastics Plant Still Flaring Toxic Gases Far Beyond Permitted Limits

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New Government Infrastructure Report Pushes ‘Disastrous Water Privatization Schemes’

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Polluter’s Carbon Credit Offset Claims ‘Overblown,’ Study Finds

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EPA Stymies 6-Year Effort to Limit Water Pollution From Factory Farms

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U.S. Ramps Up Battle to Force GMO Corn on Mexico

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Breakthrough Study: Antibiotic Resistance Linked to Air Pollution

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Groups Petition EPA to Add 1,000+ Chemicals to ‘Outdated’ List of Toxic Pollutants

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Urban Kids Need Access to Nature for Mental, Physical Health — Healthcare Providers Must Play a Role

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Discovery of Radioactive Fish Near Fukushima Reignites Concerns Over Plan to Dump Contaminated Wastewater

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‘Bombshell Report’: Tax Prep Companies Secretly Shared Sensitive Personal Data With Tech Giants

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Why ‘We’ll All Feel the Sting’ if Pollinators Disappear

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WHO Poised to List Popular Artificial Sweetener as ‘Possibly Carcinogenic to Humans’

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DOD Developing AI Weapons? Beware the Frankenstein Chatbots

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Top U.S. Companies Admit They Hiked Prices While Doling Out Billions to Shareholders

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Government Healthcare Agency Giving ‘Fraud and Abuse’ Waivers to Private Equity, Venture Capital Firms

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Today's Surveillance Technology Makes 2013 Look Like 'Child's Play,' Snowden Warns

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‘Not Worth the Risk’: 140+ Groups Call on Insurers to Stop Providing Coverage to Explosive Methane Gas Export Terminals

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Merck Sues Biden Administration to Protect ‘Sky-High Profits and Soaring Executive Pay’

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Groups Sue EPA for Failure to Regulate Pesticide-Coated Seeds

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‘The Sea Is Not a Garbage Dump’: Groups Protest Plan to Dump Radioactive Water Into Pacific Ocean

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AI Could Lead to Human ‘Extinction,’ Nearly 300 Experts Warn

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‘Big Win for Polluters’: U.S. Supreme Court Delivers Blow to Wetlands Protections

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‘Why Are We Allowing This?’: PFAS Chemicals Costing Society $17.5 Trillion

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Big Pharma's 'Rampant Corporate Lawlessness' Cost Americans $40 Billion in 2019: Report

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EPA Approach to Regulating PFAS Chemicals ‘Inexplicable and Irresponsible’

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Scientists Slam WHO’s ‘Weak’ Proposed Limits on PFAS in Drinking Water

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‘Unstoppable Trend’? Tech Giants Becoming More Powerful Than Nation-States

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Corporations Illegally Conspiring to Fix Prices, Report Finds

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Big Oil’s Fracked Gas Certification Program a ‘Certified Disaster,’ Groups Allege

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36% of Scientists Surveyed Fear AI Could Lead to ‘Nuclear-Level Catastrophe’

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Big Ag and Big Oil Are Key Drivers of Colorado River Crisis

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‘Definitely Toxic’: Hundreds Forced From Homes as Indiana Plastics Fire Continues to Burn

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Crypto Mining Operations Add to Air, Water and Noise Pollution

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Largest U.S. Egg Producer Posts 718% Profit Hike Igniting Call to ‘Break Up Big Ag’

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7 CDC Officers Became Sick While Visting Train Wreck Site in East Palestine

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Toxic Chemical Spill Ignites Water Safety Fears for 14 Million People

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Private Equity’s Stranglehold on U.S. Healthcare Is ‘Shocking and Immoral’ — Report

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‘Chernobyl-Scale Catastrophe’: Coalition Warns Against Restarting Michigan Nuclear Power Plant

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2 Million Americans Live Without Safe Running Water or a Working Toilet

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60+ Groups Call for Farm Bill to Promote Biodiverse, Regenerative Food Systems

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Cleanup of Oceans ‘Futile’ Unless Global Production of Plastics Is Sharply Reduced

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Biden Greenlights $8 Billion Oil-Drilling ‘Scheme’ on Federal Land in Alaska

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To Protect Corporate Profits, U.S. Plans to Bully Mexico Into Buying GMO Corn

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FBI Director Admits Agency Purchased Geolocation Data of Americans

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‘Deeply Disturbing’: FBI Tested Facial Recognition Software on Americans for Years

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Big Oil Pocketed $290 Billion in Profits Last Year Through ‘Unabated Price Gouging’ of U.S. Consumers

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Big Ag Using Carbon Offsetting Schemes to Tighten Grip on Food System

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Corporations Have ‘Weaponized’ the Government. Here’s How to Stop Them.

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Biden Administration Attempts to Sabotage Mexico's GMO Corn Ban to ‘Protect Short-Term Profits of U.S. Ag Giants’

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‘Are My Kids Safe?’: Norfolk Southern Skips Town Hall as Residents Demand Answers on Health Impacts of Toxic Disaster

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Big Pharma, Big Food, Big Oil Driving Spread of Deadly Antibiotic-Resistant ‘Superbugs’

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380+ Scientists: NIH-Funded Experiments on Monkeys ‘Cruel’ and ‘Unethical’

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41% of U.S. Ecosystems at Risk of Collapse ‘Grim’ Report Shows

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Wall Street Scooping Up Colorado River Rights in Bid to Profit From Historic Drought

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How Industry ‘Megamergers’ Are Killing Off Family Dairy Farms

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‘Obscene’: Exxon Posts Record $56 Billion in Profits — But Keeps Gouging Consumers

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Sanders Blasts Big Pharma Greed in Fox News Op-Ed

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Big Egg Producers Behind ‘Collusive Scheme’ to Gouge Consumers, Farm Group Says

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California Sues Pharma Giants Over Insulin Price Gouging

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False Match Leads to Wrongful Arrest, Prompting Calls to Ban Facial Recognition Technology

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'Corporate Greed at Its Worst': 9 Utility Giants Dished Out $11 Billion to Shareholders as Consumers Struggled to Pay Bills

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Largest-Ever Keystone Pipeline Oil Spill Threatens Drinking Water for Hundreds of Thousands of People

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Internal Docs Show Big Oil Engaged in Long-Running Climate Disinformation Campaign While Raking in Record Profits

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‘Parasitic’ Private Equity Consumes U.S. Healthcare System

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Corporate Crime Crackdown: Groups Push DOJ to Publish Database of 'Corporate Lawbreaking'

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Why Philanthropy Will Never Be a Substitute for an Effective Tax System

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Corporations Dodge $90 Billion in Taxes Every Year — Here’s How They Do It

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Plan to Release GMO Mosquitoes in California Draws Fire From California Lawmakers, Environmentalists

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Corporate Lobbyists Swarmed Capitol Hill to Kill Anti-Price Gouging Legislation

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‘Powerful Victory’: Minnesota Judge Dismisses All Charges Against Water Protectors

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100,000+ Demand Global Moratorium on ‘Unlawful’ Surveillance Technology

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Big Oil Wages ‘All-Out War on American Consumers’ While Racking Up Billions in Profits

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Big Oil Raking in Billions in Taxpayer Dollars Via Carbon Capture Scam

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‘Staggering’ 69% Drop in Animal Populations Signals ‘Devastating Biodiversity Crisis’

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Billions of Taxpayer Dollars ‘Wasted’ on Dead-End Carbon-Capture Schemes

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5 Times More Methane Released From Oil and Gas Wells Than Previously Thought, Study Finds

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‘Obscene’: Richest 1% Now Owns Third of U.S. Wealth

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200+ Groups Urge Senate to Reject Chemical Industry’s ‘Orwellian’ Plan to Burn More Plastic

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Corporate Investors Pour Billions Into ‘Digital Snoops’ to Spy on Workers’ Every Move

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How Fossil Fuel Giants Harassed 150+ Environmental Activists to Silence Protests

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Patagonia Founder: 'Earth Is Now Our Only Shareholder'

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Big Banks Making a Killing Off Global Hunger, Energy Crises

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Air Pollution Can Trigger Lung Cancer in Nonsmokers, Breakthrough Study Shows

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Pesticide Exposure Killed My Husband — Farm Workers Need Better Protections

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Corporate Profits Surge to Record-High of $2 Trillion, Pushing Inflation to 40-Year High

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U.S. Healthcare System Doesn’t Care if You Live or Die — as Long as It Gets Paid

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Policies Designed to Give Money to the Rich Drive Inflation for the Rest of Us

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Learning Suffers When Classrooms Heat Up