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Civil Society Asks Three Critical Questions of the World Bank at Its 2015 Spring Meetings
These questions throw its self-promoted claim to serve the interests of the world's poor into stark relief.
Study Finds Clean Jobs Bill Would Spur $23 Billion in New Clean Energy Investment
Legislation that would strengthen Illinois's renewable electricity and energy efficiency standards would drive billions in clean energy investments.
An End to Loopholes and Restoring Fairness: FACT Submits Comments to Senate Finance Working Groups on International Taxes
The FACT Coalition submitted comments calling for a number of substantive changes in the tax code to restore fairness.
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Islamophobia on Wheels: An Analysis
On 1 April 2015 an anti-Muslim advertisement started appearing on 84 municipal buses in the Philadelphia regional area.
House Oversight Committee Expresses “No Confidence” in DEA Administrator Leonhart
The unprecedented move by a group of over twenty bipartisan lawmakers comes a day after her shambolic performance in Congress during a hearing focused on DEA agents.
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Jordan Downs: Toxic Cleanups Underway, but Many Fear It’s Too Little, Too Late
Residents fear the worst of the environmental damage has already been done.
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Fighting a Low-Intensity War, Indigenous Tupinamba Recover Their Land in Brazil
Indigenous peoples did something the Brazilian government had refused.
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Five Corporations That Probably Didn’t Pay Taxes This Year
These corporations are some of the most egregious examples, and they're far from alone.
A Trade Rule That Makes It Illegal to Favor Local Business? Leak Shows TPP Would Do Just That
The leaked text is full of dense legal jargon. But a close reading makes its corporate agenda crystal clear.
Four Reasons Why the Transition From Fossil Fuels to a Green Energy Era Is Gaining Traction
Historians may look back on 2015 as the year that the renewable energy ascendancy began.