Project 2025 promises billions of tonnes more carbon pollution – study
The impact of Donald Trump enacting the climate policies of the rightwing Project 2025 would result in billions of tonnes...
Category: Crime
American oil tycoon charged with conspiring with OPEC to inflate prices
Scott Sheffield, founder and longtime CEO of a leading American oil producer, attempted to collude with OPEC and its allies...
Senate finance chief: Nothing unites GOP more than ‘helping rich people cheat on their taxes’
The Democratic chair of the Senate Finance Committee said Wednesday that the House GOP’s newly released debt ceiling legislation shows that the...
Clarence Thomas must be impeached over revelations of megadonor gifts, says AOC
New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has called for conservative supreme court justice Clarence Thomas’s impeachment. AOC’s calls follow reports that...
Trump’s Taxes Are the Best Case Yet for Putting Him in Prison
Don’t let the cynics who know little about our tax system trick you into thinking there was nothing all that...
Trump Got Stunningly Lax IRS Treatment While POTUS, House Finds
For years during Trump’s presidency, the losers and haters wondered: might there be a conflict of interest in having a...
Eric Trump’s Huge Lie About What Trump Org Charged Secret Service
This story would be breaking news if one of the Trumps told the truth for a change. No, this is...
Leaked: US power companies secretly spending millions to protect profits and fight clean energy
The CEO of the biggest power company in the US had a problem. A Democratic state senator was proposing a...
An Atlanta-based utility, Southern Company funded crisis denial ads
In 1980, a report circulated to a division of one of the biggest coal-burning utilities in the US warned that...
Sanders Says Stop Busting People for Marijuana and Start ‘Prosecuting Crooks on Wall Street’
Sen. Bernie Sanders suggested Friday that instead of bringing the weight of the criminal justice system down on marijuana users,...
Shell Consultant Quits, Citing “Disregard For Climate Change Risks”
Caroline Dennett has been a senior safety consultant for Shell for 11 years, but in an emotional farewell video, she...
It’s Time for Charles Koch to Testify About His Climate Change Disinformation Campaign
The US House Oversight and Reform Committee kicked off its investigation of the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long climate change disinformation...
‘Profits Above Workers’: Amazon Pounded Over Tornado Deaths At Warehouse
Amazon was accused Saturday of putting corporate profits above worker safety following the tornado-caused partial collapse of a St. Louis-area...
How the media covers up for the Pentagon’s highway robbery
Intense debate over the Build Back Better (BBB) legislation has triggered stern lectures by fiscal conservatives about government spending. The...
Lying, Cheating Oil & Gas Companies Stick Taxpayers With Cleanup Bill
In our minds, we envision an oil well faithfully pumping oil for decades after it is drilled. In reality, the...
The shame of the Sacklers — “Drug dealers in nice suits and dresses”
Today a federal judge is expected to certify Purdue Pharmaceutical’s bankruptcy plan – a $4.5 billion settlement between the company...
How Big Pharma fueled the opioid crisis that killed 500,000
As the U.S. continues to deal with the fallout from the devastating opioid epidemic that has killed over 500,000 people...
The case for locking Trump up
Let’s get one thing out of the way first: The main reason to prosecute Donald Trump is that he’s a shameless...
ExxonMobil Worked To Shift Climate Blame
ExxonMobil used tobacco industry messaging strategies to shift responsibility for climate change away from itself and onto consumers, despite its...
Study Finds Trump And GOP Killed Hundreds Of Thousands Of Americans With Botched Pandemic Response
According to a new Brookings Institute study as reported by Reuters: The United States squandered both money and lives in its...
Leaked Docs From Inside ‘Omnicidal’ ExxonMobil Reveal Plan to Increase Climate-Killing Emissions
New reporting Monday based on leaked internal documents reveals ExxonMobil has been planning to notably increase annual carbon dioxide emissions—a revelation that...
GOP Leaders on Trump Post-Election Threats: Trust Us!
Top Republicans on Thursday vowed to ensure a peaceful transfer of power should President Donald Trump lose the November election,...
Faced With Consequences of Climate Crisis, Low-Lying Delaware Sues 31 Fossil Fuel Companies
Joining the trend of city, county, and state governments trying to make polluters pay for their significant contributions to the...
Another Sleazy Trump Crony Arrested
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon was arrested Thursday after being charged with defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors...
Filing by NY Prosecutors Indicates Broader Probe Into Alleged Trump Tax Fraud
Court filings by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. on Monday led to renewed speculation that prosecutors in New York have targeted...
Trump’s Reelection Strategy Involves Terrorizing Us With Secret Stormtroopers
Donald Trump and his cohort of propagandists at Fox News would have us believe the major cities of the United States have...
‘Trump Death Clock’ Headed to DC
With Covid-19 pandemic surging in regions across the United States, progressive activists plan to spotlight the president’s “reckless and deadly”...
Minnesota Sues Exxon, Koch, American Petroleum Institute Over Climate Change
WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) – The state of Minnesota on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the American Petroleum Institute, Exxon...
People of Ogoniland Still Waiting for Big Oil to Clean Up Devastating Pollution
In 2011, a ground-breaking report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) on oil pollution in Ogoniland highlighted the devastating impact of the...
Trump made the Secret Service ‘captive customers’ in transactions at his businesses
Last week in the Washington Post, journalists David A. Fahrenthold and Joshua Partlow reported that according to federal records the...
‘Criminal negligence’: Trump officials ignored company’s offer to make 7 million N95 masks per month
Progressives on Saturday denounced an “infuriating” report which detailed the Department of Health and Human Services’ refusal to take an American company...
Fox News Clan Is Preparing For Lawsuits Over Its Coronavirus Lies
Amid the mushrooming coronavirus crisis, Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch are girding for a pandemic of public-interest lawsuits over misinformation and conspiracy theories...
Trump Is Taking Bribes And Selling Access To The White House
Trump is pocketing money from donors and giving them access to the White House and the scam is being run...
Trump Busted For Bank And Tax Fraud In Newly Obtained Documents
Property documents reveal that Donald Trump has been listing higher values on his loan applications and lower values on his...
Trump Ordered to Pay $2 Million for Charity Fraud
A New York judge has ordered President Donald Trump to personally pay $2 million to settle the state attorney general’s...
Trump Breaks The Law Every Time Taxpayer Money Is Spent At One Of His Properties
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) explained that Trump is not allowed to take any money from the taxpayers beyond his salary,...
Crook Trump: Air Force Planes Diverted to Trump’s Scottish Golf Resort
There have been so many Trump scandals that it seems impossible to keep them straight without a scorecard, but the...
Drug makers flooded US with billions of opioid pills as epidemic surged, data shows
Drug makers and distributors flooded the US with more than 75bn opioid pills in the crucial years when the country’s epidemic...
Shell Oil Made Workers Attend Trump Event By Threatening Not To Pay Them
Shell officials in Beaver County, PA gave workers a choice, they could either attend Trump’s event or not be paid...
Warren Unveils Bill to Punish Criminal CEOs
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren introduced legislation Wednesday that would make it easier to imprison corporate executives whose companies commit crimes...
Exxon’s Misinformation Campaign To Face Public Scrutiny As Legal Woes Mount
It’s been nearly four years since leaked documents revealed Exxon Mobil Corp. understood that fossil fuel emissions caused the planet...
One of America’s richest families made huge profits from the nation’s opioid crisis
A court ruling Monday in Massachusetts will expose details about one of America’s richest families and their connection to the...
The Special Counsel’s Russia Probe is Making Millions by Catching Serial Tax Cheats
The special counsel’s spending on the Russia probe has now exceeded $25 million, according to the Department of Justice, but...
U.S. Charges Four in ‘Panama Papers’ Tax Evasion Scheme
U.S. prosecutors announced Tuesday that they have charged four people with taking part in a decades-long scheme to evade U.S....
Trump’s Panama tower used for money laundering, reports say
The Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower soars over Panama City bay, a 70-storey skyscraper shaped like a sail. Donald...
Fossil Fuel Companies Kill With Impunity. Why Are Their Leaders Not In Jail?
Over the course of 2018, I have started emphasizing how the extraction and sale of fossil fuels is like a...
