Exposed: State Department Ignores Climate Facts of Keystone XL Pipeline

A new report shows the Keystone XL pipeline will contribute at least 181 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) each year, comparable to the tailpipe emissions from more than 37.7 million cars, or 51 coal-fired power plants.

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Naming and Shaming: Dan Loeb, Pension Fund Solicitor — and Betrayor

Dan Loeb, who speaks Thursday before the $3 trillion Council of Institutional Investors, is guilty of soliciting retirement money of public workers then turning right around and lobbying for those same workers to lose their benefits.

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Shell Oil's Plot to Silence Protests Against Arctic Drilling

The company's legal team is working overtime to keep the company’s Arctic work secret from advocacy groups like Greenpeace -- most recently, by appealing to California's Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to curb protester rights.

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Sweatshops on Wheels: This is What Privatizing Public Transit Looks Like

The deterioration of the nation’s public transportation, like its health care, education, social services, public utilities, bridges and roads, is part of the relentless seizing and harvesting of public resources and programs by corporations.

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Opposition Grows Fierce to Austerity Cuts in Portland

The Portland government's narrowly constructed and carefully controlled austerity narrative, meant to divide and weaken the city

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Revealed: ACLU Obtains IRS Email Privacy Memos

Newly released documents show that in recent years, the Internal Revenue Service has claimed American Internet users "do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy" when it comes to their emails being snooped on.

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One Multi-Millionaire is Turning North Carolina into Tea Party Utopia

With no remaining checks to Republican rule in North Carolina, the state has now become a haven for some of the most ideological — and ill-considered — tea party fantasies dressed up as legislation.

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In Districts With Widest Gender Wage Gaps, Congressmen Oppose Fair Pay Laws

Four out of five of the U.S. congressional districts with the widest gender-based wage gaps are represented by congressmen who oppose equal pay laws.

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Everything We Know About What’s Happened Under Sequestration

Austerity, American style...

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Farmers-Consumers vs. Monsanto: Many Davids Can Topple One Goliath

Global resistance to Monsanto is growing as people rise up to reclaim food and seed sovereignty.

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