http://www.corpwatch.org/ http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15165 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15165 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15164 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15164 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15157 <div class="text blurb">Wachovia has become the latest US bank to agree to buy back billions of dollars of tainted auction rate securities that it sold before a market collapse in February, US officials announced Friday.</div> Fri, 15 Aug 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15157 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15158 <div class="text blurb">The Federal Aviation Administration, proposing one of its biggest penalties ever, said it plans to fine AMR Corp.'s American Airlines $7.1 million for allegedly violating employee drug- and alcohol-testing procedures and knowingly flying airplanes that broke maintenance regulations.</div> Fri, 15 Aug 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15158 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15159 <div class="text blurb">BP has said it has resumed pumping gas through a pipeline that runs through Georgia after an EU-brokered truce between Russian and Georgian troops.</div> Fri, 15 Aug 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15159 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15161 <div class="text blurb">An American financier is pitching a vast theme park in Baghdad, not out of kindness, but as he says, "for profit."</div> Fri, 15 Aug 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15161 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15156 <div class="text blurb">West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin III filed a friend-of-the-court brief in June, arguing the State Supreme Court should review a $382 million judgment against DuPont. The case involves thousands of residents in the area of a DuPont-operated zinc-smelting plant, and the largest civil penalty ever levied against the company, for the dumping of toxic arsenic, cadmium and lead at the plant.</div> Wed, 13 Aug 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15156 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15155 <div class="text blurb">Federal investigators on Monday raided the downtown offices of a city-chartered nonprofit agency accused of abusing a federally financed program that was created to clean up houses damaged by Hurricane Katrina. </div> Mon, 11 Aug 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15155 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15154 <div class="text blurb">Federal prosecutors are investigating an alleged criminal price-fixing conspiracy in the $1.8 billion market for packaged ice, with the help of a former industry executive who told authorities the collusion was nationwide and forced up prices for consumers and businesses.</div> Thu, 07 Aug 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15154 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15153 <div class="text blurb">EU commissioner Viviane Reding has asked the UK government to clarify whether the Phorm system is in breach of European data laws.</div> Wed, 06 Aug 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15153 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15152 <div class="text blurb">State labor investigators have identified 57 under-age workers who were employed at a kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, and have asked the attorney general to bring criminal charges against the company for child labor violations, Dave Neil, the Iowa Labor Commissioner, said on Tuesday.</div> Tue, 05 Aug 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15152 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15147 <div class="text blurb">Qinetiq, once owned by the Ministry of Defence (MOD), said it would it pay $104.5m (£53m) in cash for the firm.</div> Mon, 04 Aug 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15147 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15148 <div class="text blurb">In recent years, companies from Intel Corp. to CenturyTel Inc. collectively have moved hundreds of millions of dollars of obligations for executive benefits into rank-and-file pension plans. This lets companies capture tax breaks intended for pensions of regular workers and use them to pay for executives' supplemental benefits and compensation.</div> Mon, 04 Aug 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15148 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15149 <div class="text blurb">Entergy Nuclear (part of the broader Entergy energy family) is spinning off its northeastern U.S.-based nuclear power plants into a related limited liability corporation, Enexus. Stakeholders in Vermont, home of the Yankee Nuclear power plant, are less than happy, with Entergy also reneging on prior commitments to cover eventual plant decommissioning costs, potentially stranding taxpayers with much of the bill.</div> Mon, 04 Aug 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15149 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15146 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15146