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Chevron Hit with $13 Million Fine as Massive California Oil Spills Persist

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U.S. Government Waged Global Campaign on Behalf of Multinational Baby Formula Companies

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Bone Grafts on 2-Year-Olds? Experts Question Utah Hospital’s Risky Cleft Palate Treatments

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61 Million Americans Exposed to Toxic Drinking Water as EPA Fails to Regulate

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Manufacturer Hid Known Dangers of Ventilators Used to Treat Children, Elderly

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Boeing and Seattle Spar Over $1 Billion Pricetag to Get PCBs, Heavy Metals Out of City’s Only River

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UN Plastics Pollution Report: How Much Sway Did Industry Lobbyists Have?

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EPA Approved a Fuel Ingredient — Even Though It Could Cause Cancer in Virtually Every Person Exposed to It

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Impeached Texas Attorney General Partnered With Troubled Businessman to Push Opioid Program

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Texas Scraps Plan to Spend Millions on Taxpayer-Funded Child ID Kits

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New York City Schools Handcuff and Haul Away Kids in Mental Crisis — Even 5-Year-Olds

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FCC Is Supposed to Make Sure 5G Rollout Doesn’t Damage the Environment — It’s Failing at That Job

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EPA Under Fire Over Approval of Cancer-Causing Plastic-Based Fuel

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Lawmakers Push for Total Ban on Asbestos in U.S.

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U.S. Stillbirth Rate Remains ‘Unacceptably High,’ With Problems ‘at Every Level’

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EPA Green Lights ‘Climate-Friendly’ Fuel From Discarded Plastics Despite High Cancer Risk

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Federal Lawmakers Scrap Plans to Regulate Medical Tests Following ‘Intensive’ Lobbying

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What You Should Know About Wireless Radiation

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Prenatal Tests and Tragic Decisions: What Happens When FDA Fails to Regulate Medical Products

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Toxic Levels of Mercury, PCBs Found in Salmon That Tribes Rely on for Food

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4 Reasons U.S. Is Losing the Fight to Ban Toxic Chemicals

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Telecom Giant Offers Girl Scouts New Patch in Exchange for Promoting ‘Wonders of 5G’

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‘Ticking Atomic Bomb’: 50+ Uranium Mills Still Dumping Cancer-Causing Toxic Waste Into U.S. Rivers

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How the FCC Protects Cellphone Companies, Ignores Public Safety

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Kids in Cancer Alley School Exposed to ‘Extreme’ Levels of Carcinogenic Chemicals

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Dams vs. Salmon: Agency in Charge of Protecting Fish Protects Big Energy Instead

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Google Shared Sensitive User Data With Sanctioned Russian Ad Company

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Should You Delete Your Period-Tracking App?

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U.S. Taxpayers Spent $2 Billion on Failed Plan to Save Wild Salmon

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Drug Companies Paid Doctors to Write Opioid Prescriptions, Documents Reveal

The Biden Administration and Democrats in Congress have been trying to close loopholes in the code and raise taxes on the rich to fund their legislative priorities.

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When Billionaires Dodge Taxes, People ‘Lose Faith in Democracy,’ Senator Says

Phyllis Taylor’s company is responsible for the longest-running oil spill in U.S. history. That’s been a disaster for the Gulf of Mexico — but a tax bonanza for Taylor.

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How Massive Oil Spill Helped Billionaire Avoid Paying Income Tax for 14 Years

The new privacy policy 'will give Facebook even more power to extract money from WhatsApp communications.'

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Facebook Lied — It’s Reading Your Private WhatsApp Messages

The wealthy pay so little in taxes primarily because they keep their incomes low.

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Senators Demand Investigation Into Tax Avoidance by Ultra Wealthy

ProPublica has obtained a vast trove of Internal Revenue Service data on the tax returns of thousands of the nation’s wealthiest people.

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Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How Bezos, Musk, Other Top Billionaires Pay Almost Zilch in Income Taxes

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States Face Multiple Hurdles to Distributing Pfizer’s COVID Vaccine, If Approved

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FDA’s Failure to Enforce Science-Based Policy Puts Food Safety at Risk, Analysis Shows