"Environmental Literacy Improvement Act" to Require Teaching Climate Change Denial in Schools

The American Legislative Exchange Council has planted its "Environmental Literacy Improvement Act," mandating a "balanced" teaching of climate science in K-12 classrooms, in the Oklahoma, Colorado and Arizona state legislatures in 2013.

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Welcome to the Network of Global Corporate Control

Swiss researchers have found that of the world's 43,000 transnational corporations, a "super-entity" of 147 tightly-knit companies, which all own each other, collectively constitute 40% of the total wealth in the entire global network.

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In Maine, 1,000 Rally Against Exxon Tar Sands Pipeline

In the largest protest in the Northeast against tar sands, massive crowds from Maine, New England and Canada marched across Portland opposing the 236-mile long, 62-year-old Exxon/Enbridge pipeline.

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ALEC Companies Leads Attack on North Carolina's Clean Energy

Corporate polluters are taking aim this year at states with renewable energy laws, starting with ALEC's assault on North Carolina’s clean energy economy, with support from Duke Energy, ExxonMobil and Koch Industries.

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We Are the United States of Big Oil

The world's five biggest oil companies made over $60 billion in the first half of this year, and hundreds of millions of that goes right back into undermining clean energy investment.

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Drilling Through Lies

A new report reveals that ten of the world's largest oil and gas companies failed to report risks associated with deepwater drilling. Now, some banks are refusing to finance new, risky drilling operations in the Arctic.

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How Oil Companies Spend Their $375 Million In Daily Profits

The five biggest oil companies earned $375 million in profits per day last year – or more than a quarter of a million dollars per minute, more than 96 percent of American households make in a year. So just where, and on what, are they spending those billions?

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