U.S. Insurance Companies Are Deeply Invested in Climate Pollution
It’s no surprise that major U.S. insurers are getting hit with a large number of claims following the enormous damage from this year’s hurricanes and wildfires. But it will surprise many people that decades after the industry first recognized the…
New Legislation Would Allow Criminal Penalties Against Corporate Officers Who Hide Information on Dangerous Products
Coalition for Sensible Safeguards news release For Immediate Release: July 15, 2014 Contact: Angela Bradbery, (202) 588-7741, abradbery@citizen.org; or Brian Gumm, (202) 683-4812, bgumm@foreffectivegov.org New Legislation Would Allow Criminal Penalties Against Corporate Officers Who Hide Information on Dangerous Products Sen. Blumenthal’s…
Two Key Corporate Accountability Bills Introduced by Rep. Conyers
News Release For Immediate Release: Friday, April 11, 2014 For More Information Contact: Ralph Nader or Gary Ruskin (202) 387-8030 Two Key Corporate Accountability Bills Introduced by Rep. Conyers Yesterday, U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) introduced two important corporate accountability measures: (1) the…
After GM Disaster, Nader & Groups Call for Criminal Liability for Hiding Product Dangers
News Release For Immediate Release: Tuesday, April 8, 2014 For More Information Contact: Gary Ruskin (202) 387-8030 After GM Disaster, Nader & Groups Call for Criminal Liability for Hiding Product Dangers In an effort to prevent deadly product safety disasters – such…
Why Debunking the “Myth of Shareholder Value” is so Critical
Steve Pearlstein’s column in Sunday’s Post Business section (with a related story by Jia Lynn Jang) is an excellent deconstruction of the “myth of shareholder value” and a must read for readers of this site. Pearlstein not only reviews the…
A Reminder: The Rich Don’t Always Win
Sam Pizzigati (editor of the superb website, TooMuchOnline, which tracks CEO pay and other gross excesses of the super-rich) has a new book out that rebuts the self-justifying claims used by the rich and right-wing elites: The Rich Don’t Always…
Tax (Policy) Time
The call to reform corporate taxes is accelerating. The Senate Finance Committee released a set of policy papers on tax reform today that at least include some ideas we like for discussion and inclusion, such as a carbon tax (more…
Exxon, Dow, and the Koch Brothers: Buying the Bench
A Center for Public Integrity investigation reveals that Exxon, Dow, the Kochs, the Chamber of Commerce and other corporate groups spent millions of dollars in recent years to send sitting judges to weekend seminars on corporate crime and other topics. Not only were the seminars heavily biased toward…
Civic Censorship: “Corporate Crime”
A new column by Russell Mokhiber, editor of the Corporate Crime Reporter, points out that U.S. news media have used the term “corporate crime” just 42 times since the year began. The only instance in which an American outlet used the…
Geithner Must Go
An early litmus test of Barack Obama’s willingness to push policies to help the middle class in his second term — as promised ad nauseum throughout the campaign — will be whether or not he gives Treasury Secretary Geithner the…