Client Alert: Law Firms Tell Fossil Fuel Companies They Could Be Next in “ExxonKnew” Probe Some of the country’s biggest law firms have recently penned “client alert” memoranda, suggesting to their clients that they closely monitor the ongoing Attorneys General investigations occurring in states nationwide on the potentially fraudulent behavior of ExxonMobil. DeSmog tracked down alerts written…
“End the Circus”: Big Oil Group Plots to Exclude Public from Public Lands Bidding at IOGCC Meeting
“End the Circus”: Big Oil Group Plots to Exclude Public from Public Lands Bidding at IOGCC Meeting At the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC)‘s 2016 meeting in Denver, Colorado this week, a representative from a prominent oil and gas lobbying group advocated that auctions of federal lands should happen online “eBay”-style — a clear attempt…
Out d’Coup | Episode 11 | PA Right-Wing & PennLive go after teacher seniority; Katie McGinty makes some changes’; & Primary Day in Kentucky and Oregon! PLUS: EXPANDED PODCAST
Out d’Coup | Episode 11 | PA Right-Wing & PennLive go after teacher seniority; Katie McGinty makes some changes’; & Primary Day in Kentucky and Oregon! PLUS: EXPANDED PODCAST A HUUUUUUGE day for Raging Chicken Radio. Today we officially roll out our expanded podcast! After our regular Out d’Coup podcast, keep on listening for our interview…
Verizon Workers Talk About What It’s Like to Strike
Verizon Workers Talk About What It’s Like to Strike While the afternoon sky threatened rain last Saturday, striking Verizon workers Kim* and Ryan stood outside their office on Duke Street in downtown Lancaster. Kim and Ryan, both consultants in the collections department who were hired in 2006, said they are scheduled to do this a few…
Lancaster Verizon Workers Nearing a Month on Strike Discuss Their Grievances
Lancaster Verizon Workers Nearing a Month on Strike Discuss Their Grievances For 31 days as of May 12, nearly 40,000 Verizon workers up and down the northeast corridor from Massachusetts to Virginia have been on strike. Members of the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the strikers have been working without…
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KDKA Editor Asks If It’s OK for George Zimmerman to Sell His Gun by Tweeting Photo of Trayvon Martin Giving Two Middle Fingers
KDKA Editor Asks If It’s OK for George Zimmerman to Sell His Gun by Tweeting Photo of Trayvon Martin Giving Two Middle Fingers News recently broke that George Zimmerman is selling the gun he used to kill Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman, who was a neighborhood watch volunteer, got into a physical altercation with Trayvon Martin, which then…
Exxon’s Lawyer in Climate Science Probe Has History Helping Big Tobacco and NFL Defend Against Health Claims
Exxon’s Lawyer in Climate Science Probe Has History Helping Big Tobacco and NFL Defend Against Health Claims Ted Wells, an attorney hired by ExxonMobil to represent the company against accusations it lied about the climate risks of burning fossil fuels, also represented the tobacco industry in the lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice in 1999 under the Racketeer Influenced…
Raging Chicken Radio | Out d’Coup, Episode 10
On today’s episode we do a little Election Reflection now that Donald Trump is the presumptive GOP nominee for president…what are Trump’s prospects in the General? Are the Democrats up to the task to defeat him? Meanwhile, the Democratic primary is still going strong. Today is Primary day in West Virginia and it looks like…
“No More Games”: APSCUF Faculty Move Closer to Strike
“No More Games”: APSCUF Faculty Move Closer to Strike It appears that faculty members working at Pennsylvania’s fourteen university State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) have had just about enough. Negotiations between the faculty union, APSCUF, and PASSHE administrators have gone nowhere since their contract expired on June 30, 2015. After a meeting on January 8th,…
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