Federal District Judge Dan Polster pushes parties to the litigation and others concerned to craft a comprehensive settlement to the opioid crisis; attorney general Jeff Sessions’ DoJ seems more interested in fence sitting that rolling up its sleeves.
Read more...RNN interview with Carol Muffett discussing what Royal Dutch Shell knew about fossil fuel driving climate change and when they knew, as confirmed in a Confidential 1986 Report published last week by a Dutch source. Let the lawsuits proceed.
Read more...The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a major plastic accumulation zone located between California and Hawaii, is growing at a rate greater than previously believed, according to a new scientific paper published last week.
Read more...Report documents how the self-regulation fairy proved itself as inept in protecting the public from dysfunctional management decisions that compromised safety and led to the Alito Canyon natural gas disaster.
Read more...Three years in the making, comprehensive UN report on declining biodiversity identifies this trend as a major threat to continued survival.
Read more...Real News Network interview with Professor Stephen F. Cohen on the insane arms race between the United States and Russia, which leaders from both parties are doing their utmost to stoke.
Read more...SEC makes record whistleblower award, while meanwhile an Ethics and Compliance Initiative survey reports retaliation rates for reporting of corporate misconduct have doubled.
Read more...Interview with Adam Winkler about his book, We The Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights. The consequences of this victory skew US politics to benefit corporations at the expense of the public good.
Read more...A panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit last week axed the fiduciary rule– which the Trump Labor Department had delayed implementing. Now what? It’s over to the SEC.
Read more...RNN interview discussing oil funding of state measures to criminalize peaceful pipeline protest as ‘eco-terrorism’. Penalties up to 25 years in jail and $100 k in fines. Others to follow?
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