CORPORATE MISCONDUCT

Cities Sue Manufacturer of Weed-Killer Found in Tap Water

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COMMON DREAMS– A coalition of communities in six Midwestern states filed a federal lawsuit Monday seeking to force the manufacturer of a widely-used herbicide to pay for its removal from drinking water. Atrazine, a weed-killer sprayed primarily on cornfields, can run off into rivers and streams that supply municipal water systems. As the Huffington Post Investigative Fund reported in a  series of  articles last  fall, … Read More

BP is Pursuing Risky Two Mile Underground Drilling in Alaska

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NY TIMES– The future of BP’s offshore oil operations in the Gulf of Mexico has been thrown into doubt by the recent drilling disaster and court wrangling over a moratorium. The BP drilling station on the artificial island in the Beaufort Sea. Because of its location on the artificial island, it has been exempted from the moratorium on offshore drilling. … Read More

Follow Up on Gulf Emergency Summit

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Activist, Mother, and Voice of the Gulf People, Kindra Arnesen sat down with the Project Gulf Impact team, Matt Smith, Heather Rally, and Gavin Garrison recently to reveal shocking new information about the BP oil disaster and why the whole world should be paying attention to the Gulf. A must watch for anyone wanting new information on the Gulf of … Read More

Oil Soaks Miles of Pensacola Beach

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CNN– When you’re on vacation or live in a coastal community, it’s a symbol you simply don’t want to see: a no-swimming sign, along with a beach health advisory. More than two months after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Pensacola awoke Wednesday to the largest onslaught of black crude on Florida’s coast, as more than nine miles of white shoreline and … Read More

BP Hires Mercenary Force to “Protect Beaches”

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  CONSUMERIST– This video shows a BP-hired mercenaries working for “Talon Security” trying to keep WDSU-New Orleans reporter Scott Walker from talking to cleanup crews on a public beach. I would normally say something like, “Apparently they didn’t get the memo last week from from National Incident Commander Thad Allen and BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles that the media … Read More

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