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Kenny Stancil

Kenny Stancil is a staff writer for Common Dreams.

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$childhood leukemia risk fracking drilling feature$

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Kids Born Near Fracking Sites at Much Greater Risk of Developing Leukemia

Federal trade commission big tech data feature

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Watchdog Group: FTC Must Crack Down on Big Tech’s ‘Predatory’ Data Practices

baby food brain damage heavy metals feature

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94% of Baby Foods — Including Homemade — Contain Brain-Damaging Heavy Metals, New Study Shows

epa drinking water contamination toxic pfas chemicals

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EPA Doing ‘Bare Minimum’ to Protect U.S. Drinking Water From Contamination With Toxic PFAS Chemicals

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Corporations Reaping Record Profits From Price Hikes That Gouge Consumers

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Big Tech Profit Model ‘Fundamentally at Odds’ With Kids’ Well-Being, Advocates Say

A new analysis shows that 25 of the world's biggest fossil fuel corporations collectively pulled in an "eye-popping" $205 billion in profits last year.

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Top 25 Big Oil Companies Pulled in ‘Eye-Popping’ $205 Billion in Profits Last Year

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Amazon Lied to Congress, House Judiciary Panel Alleges in Letter to DOJ

AGs from Washington, D.C. and three statessued Google, accusing the tech giant of deceiving consumers about the security of their location data.

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4 AGs Sue Google for Tracking Users Without Permission

“Connecting the Dots: Plastic Pollution and the Planetary Emergency.”

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Global Plastic Pollution Causing Planetary Emergency

The ice shelf holding back one of Antarctica's most perilous glaciers is eroding from below due to higher ocean temperatures.

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Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ Could Shatter Within 5 Years, Threatening Millions

'We may never be able to fully measure the magnitude and scale of the harm done by Formosa around the world.'

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Plastics Production — and Fossil Fuel Industry That Feeds It — Cause ‘Staggering’ Global Devastation, Investigation Finds

Earth's atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations and sea levels both hit record highs in 2020.

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Atmospheric CO2 Levels Highest in 800,000 Years, Says Latest NOAA Report

Climate justice campaigners are demanding fossil fuel corporations be forced to pay for clean up.

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‘Polluters Should Pay’: Biggest Energy Companies Could Face $6 Billion in Annual Bills Under Proposed Law

'Control of agricultural markets and concentration of power has proven to be a lucrative business for industrial agrifood corporations.'

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‘Truth About Industrial Agriculture’ — Myth-Busting Report Exposes Big Ag’s Large-Scale Deception

The People's Counter-Mobilization to Transform Corporate Food Systems began on Sunday.

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300+ Groups Protest ‘Corporate-Friendly’ UN Food Summit by Staging Their Own

NSO Group's hacking tool 'has been used to facilitate human rights violations around the world on a massive scale.'

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Tech Firm’s Spyware Targeted Phones of Journalists, Activists on ‘Massive Scale’

$Fossil fuel corporations have injected PFAS, or chemicals that can degrade into PFAS, into the ground while fracking for oil and gas.$

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EPA Knew Fracking Chemicals Were Toxic, But Approved Them Anyway

$Fracking blasts water and chemicals into the seafloor to fracture rock and release oil and gas.$

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Feds Let Big Energy Dump 66 Million Gallons of Toxic Fracking Waste Into Gulf of Mexico

'The First Amendment is not a special privilege of the press but, rather, a fundamental right protecting all Americans.'

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Washington Post Accuses Biden DOJ of Exacerbating Trump-Era's ‘Brazen Infringement’ of Americans’ First Amendment Rights

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'Silicon Six’ Dodged $100 Billion in Taxes Over Past Decade

Finally the IEA is starting to get it ... the world needs to phase out fossil fuels.

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‘Bombshell Report’ Says All Fossil Fuels Should Stay in the Ground

EU courts have again ruled that bees and other essential insects should be protected from dangerous pesticides.

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EU Court Upholds Ban on Bayer’s Bee-Killing Pesticides in Landmark Ruling Against ‘Powerful Multinationals’

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Japan Plans to Dump 1.2 Million Tons of Contaminated Fukushima Wastewater Into Pacific Ocean

Recent studies have shown that Wall Street is a primary driver of the climate emergency.

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Majority of Voters Want Feds to Crack Down on Banks With Ties to Big Polluters

"Even if greenhouse gas emissions were to plummet overnight, the planet would continue warming for years to come."

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First Time in Recorded History Atmospheric CO2 Surged Past 420 PPM

"Facebook and Google's monopoly power and data harvesting practices have given them an unfair advantage."

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Big Tech ‘Making Billions’ Off Surveillance Advertising

Many power plants burning 'clean coal,' pumped out more pollution than previously.

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'Clean Coal’ Boondoggle Nets Billions in Tax Credits for Big Energy, Investigation Launched

Pandemic Sparks Growing Call for End to Big Ag’s Control of Seeds and Food System

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Pandemic Sparks Call for End to Big Ag’s Control of Seeds and Food System

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Coalition to Tech Reviewers: Stop Endorsing Amazon Ring Doorbell Cameras