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Demand a Federal Investigation of Exxon's Climate-Change Deception
2015-10-27 16:53:47| Chemicals - Topix.net
Exxon-Mobil has spent millions of dollars promoting skepticism about climate change. But recent reports indicate that the fossil fuel giant knew years ago that climate change was real, that it was caused by fossil-fuel emissions, and that the effects of it would be, according to one of the company's own memos, "potentially catastrophic."
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VW Deception Not an Isolated Case and Not Just the Auto Industry
2015-09-25 15:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Again and again we hear about corporations doing bad things so they can make more money: polluting, selling contaminated food or otherwise harming peoples health, selling products that injure people or just dont do what they advertise, tricking and scamming people out of their money, selling banned goods or providing financial services for terrorists or drug cartels and so many other things that are not good for people or society. "The idea we can rely on corporations being good citizens......
Analysis: Deception fuels Volkswagen emissions scandal
2015-09-22 16:55:51| Automakers - Topix.net
In the landscape of recent automotive scandals, Volkswagen's emissions cheating is particularly cutting precisely because of its intentional nature. Analysis: Deception fuels Volkswagen emissions scandal In the landscape of recent automotive scandals, Volkswagen's emissions cheating is particularly cutting precisely because of its intentional nature.
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PETA Sues Whole Foods, Alleges Deception in Animal Welfare Claims
2015-09-22 15:31:00| Grocery - Topix.net
The lawsuit seeks to be certified as a class action on behalf of customers who bought meat or poultry from Whole Foods stores in California. An animal protection organization sued Whole Foods Market Inc. in federal court in San Jose Monday, accusing the natural foods grocery chain of deceiving customers in its claims of humane treatment of animals and poultry raised for meat.
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Internal Documents Expose Fossil Fuel Industrys Decades of Deception on Climate Change
2015-07-09 14:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse created a stir recently when he speculated that fossil fuel companies may be violating federal racketeering law by colluding to defraud the public about the threat posed by carbon pollution. Whitehouse likened their actions to those of the tobacco companies that conspired to manufacture doubt about the link between smoking and disease when they were all too aware of it. In 2006, a federal district court ruled that the tobacco industrys deceptive campaign to...
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