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Video: “Bangladeshi Workers Pay Price for West’s Cheap Clothes” Bangladesh has been a country of wiggle room for Western retailers looking to cut costs, however, the April 24 collapse of eight story Rana Plaza has turned Bangladesh into [...]
Fertilizer trade group opposed stricter security rules by Jim Morris for The Center for Public Integrity Like many, the Fertilizer Institute, a trade group, has extended its condolences to the people of West, Texas, where a blast at a fertilizer plant [...]
Secret Files Expose Offshore’s Global Impact by Gerard Ryle, Marina Walker Guevara, Michael Hudson, Nicky Hager, Duncan Campbell and Stefan Candea for ICIJ A cache of 2.5 million files has cracked open the secrets of more than 120,000 offshore companies and trusts, exposing hidden dealings of [...]
As EPA delays new coal ash rules, residents turn to the courts for relief By Kristen Lombardi for The Center for Public Integrity Sabrina Mislevy is tired of the odors, the way they “hit” her as she drives by the [...]
California Farmers Alarmed as Energy Companies Outbid Ag Water Districts for Resource By Dan Aiello, originally published by California Progress Report There’s a new water interest bidding for California’s limited water supplies, and the managers of California’s historic [...]
Inspector General to review EPA’s ‘Watch Lists’ By Jim Morris for The Center for Public Integrity The Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector general has begun a review of the EPA’s use of internal watch lists to target enforcement of federal [...]
Hunting For Pennsylvania’s Orphaned And Abandoned Wells By Dimiter Kenarov for The Huffington Post Laurie Barr is a hunter. Each year, around November, when the trees in Pennsylvania lose their foliage and the shrubs are nothing but bare [...]
Conservationist files suit to shut-down or cleanup ash pits By Anne Blythe for The News & Observer, republished by McClatchy RALEIGH, N.C — Conservation groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission, Duke Energy [...]
Debate over coal exports in Pacific Northwest leaves some out, critics charge By Curtis Tate and Kristi Pihl for McClatchy PASCO, Wash. — While proposals to turn green-leaning Washington state into a major exporter of coal to China have [...]
Female cab drivers break into India’s hostile male profession by Aparna Alluri · August 21, 2012 for the Seattle Globalist NEW DELHI––On a sticky afternoon in New Delhi, India, Chandni Gautam inches her cab into a narrow street where she [...]