Investigating Power
The Bioscience Resource Project and the Center for Media and Democracy today are releasing a trove of rediscovered and newly digitized chemical industry and regulatory agency documents stretching back to the 1920s. The documents are available at PoisonPapers.org.
The Trump administration has set up what Trump calls a “vote fraud panel. “Billed as an official “Advisory Commission on Election Integrity Resources,”the commission is being met with resistance and lawsuits and is even prompting some worried voters to take the names off the voter rolls.
Though ALEC has an uneasy relationship with President Trump, they haven’t hesitated in adopting his “drain the swamp” rhetoric when extolling their plans to amend the federal constitution, repeal workers’ rights or gut social safety net programs.
The fracking industries and king coal producers ExxonMobil, Noble Energy, and ARCO dominated the first day of the 44th ALEC conference.
Guest contributor Alex Carlin says the Climate Time Bomb is ticking while Trump walks away from the Paris agreement and he contends it’s worse than you may think (but there’s hope)…
AG Reyes refuses to release records relating to his dealings with the Republican Attorneys General Association’s corporate cash-for-influence operation.
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) will debate a resolution to repeal the 17th Amendment providing for the direct election of U.S. Senators.
The world looked on in horror as Grenfell Tower, a public housing project in London, became a near-biblical pillar of fire that burned at least 80 people to death.
Trump’s pick for FBI Director will face the Senate Judiciary Committee this Wednesday
CMD signed on to a letter along with 100 groups including The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights condemning Pence and Kobach’s request for American citizens’ personal information.