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First Ever Lawsuit Challenges Taxpayer Financing of Coal Exports
2013-08-02 16:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EarthJustice: Environmental groups filed the first ever lawsuit on Wednesday challenging the federal governments financing for the export of Appalachian coal from the U.S. The U.S. government approved this financial support for coal exports without considering the increased toxic air and water pollution that could affect communities near the mines and ports, and along the railways that connect them. The groups filing the lawsuit charge that the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank) violated federal law by providing...
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Obama’s Ex-Car Czar Wants Taxpayer Bailout for Detroit
2013-07-23 06:30:40| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
President Obama's former head of the Auto Task Force, Steven Rattner, helped orchestrate the auto bailouts that saw billions of taxpayer dollars spent to save General Motors and Chrysler in a rigged bankruptcy proceeding favorable to political allies .
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Taxpayer Dollars Are Helping Monsanto Sell Seeds Abroad
2013-05-18 13:56:20| Biotech - Topix.net
Nearly two decades after their mid-'90s debut in US farm fields, GMO seeds are looking less and less promising.
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Big Oil's (Taxpayer Subsidized) Big Profits
2013-05-05 22:40:19| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Here's an example of how government subsidies distort market economics: Gas prices are down nearly 35 cents from last year, yet this has had virtually no impact on this year's first quarter profits of the big oil companies.
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VIDEO: UK's biggest taxpayer on tax morality
2013-04-29 12:41:53| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Newsnight's Emily Maitlis meets John Caudwell, founder of Phones4U, to ask if tax should be a matter for your social conscience.
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