Statements October 21, 2019
Climate

STATEMENT: This is Big Oil’s Big Tobacco moment

For decades, Exxon has known its business practices were driving climate change and instead of sounding the alarm, it used ...

October 16, 2019
Democracy

IPS News Agency: Holding Transnational Corporations Accountable for Human Rights Abuses

Originally published on IPS News, by Shayda Naficy of Corporate Accountability and Ebuata Pholip Jakpor of Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the ...

News September 30, 2019
Climate

Common Dreams – Opinion: Want Real Climate Ambition? Keep Polluting Industries Out and Make Them Pay.

By Patti Lynn, Nnimmo Bassey, and Lidy Nacpil on Common Dreams. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has convened a climate summit ...

September 23, 2019

Global climate coalition calls on government officials to make Big Polluters pay for real climate solutions

As UN Summit kicks off, global coalition turns up heat to hold Big Polluters liable. NEW YORK—Today, as governments convene ...

Statements August 27, 2019
Tobacco

STATEMENT: PMI/Altria merger would mean more liability for world’s largest tobacco corp.

BOSTON — Today it was reported that Philip Morris International and Altria have confirmed rumors that they were in talks ...

August 22, 2019
Climate

Statement on Senator Bernie Sanders’ climate plan

BOSTON–Today, candidate for U.S. president, Senator Bernie Sanders, released his climate plan. In it, Sanders calls for the fossil fuel industry ...