Avatarbertonomous14 hours agoCompanies to pay billions in "forever chemical" water pollution settlementsAxios - Jacob KnutsonMajor chemical producers have agreed to pay billions of dollars to settle claims from U.S. water providers over toxic "forever chemicals" …
Avatarbertonomous23 hours agoBritish Museum ends BP sponsorship deal after 27 yearsverified_publisherThe Guardian - Esther AddleyCampaigners hail split as a ‘massive victory’ , which marks a retreat of the fossil fuel giant from the British arts world BP’s sponsorship of the British Museum has ended after 27 years, new disclosures make clear, bringing to a close one of the highest-profile and most controversial of such deals …
Avatarbertonomous1 day agoSinema and Manchin’s covert debt deal operationverified_publisherPOLITICO - By Burgess Everett and Jennifer HaberkornLast term, the two centrist senators publicly shaped nearly every piece of major legislation. They revived the act on the debt limit — but this time, they stayed behind the scenes. Many people in Washington were surprised when May’s debt ceiling negotiations quickly narrowed down to House Speaker …
Avatarbertonomous1 day agoRevealed: The secret push to bury a weedkiller’s link to Parkinson’s diseaseverified_publisherGuardian US - Carey GillamInternal documents from chemical giant Syngenta reveal tactics to sponsor sympathetic scientific papers and mislead regulators about unfavorable research The global chemical giant Syngenta has sought to secretly influence scientific research regarding links between its top-selling weedkiller and …
Avatarbertonomous1 day agoJoe Biden hails ‘big win’ as bipartisan debt ceiling bill reaches his deskverified_publisherGuardian US - Guardian staff and agencyCompromise package to suspend debt ceiling passed US Senate late on Thursday with 63 votes to 36 The bipartisan bill to solve the US debt ceiling crisis just days before a catastrophic and unprecedented default was on its way to Joe Biden’s desk on Friday as the US president prepared to address the …
Avatarbertonomous2 days agoNikki Haley slams foreign lobbyists while accepting funds from themABC News - Soo Rin KimThe 2024 hopeful has raised tens of thousands of dollars from foreign lobbyists. Despite calling for a ban on foreign lobbying, in which Americans …
