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INSTITUTE INDEX: As oil prices crash, a beholden Congress scrambles to aid a...
With oil prices at their lowest point in over a decade, House and Senate leaders will meet next week to discuss ways to shore up the industry, which has invested heavily in Congress.Image: via...
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INSTITUTE INDEX: President Obama takes on gun lobby with executive actions
By the time President Obama announced a series of executive actions to restrict firearms this week, 147 Americans had already lost their lives to gun violence in the new year, with the first fatal...
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INSTITUTE INDEX: Who's behind the latest assault on the Southeast's lone...
An effort is underway to kill a North Carolina law — the only one like it in the region — that requires utilities to generate an increasing amount of electricity from clean sources like solar and wind....
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INVESTIGATIVE SERIES: The Drive to Drill
A three-part Institute investigation looked at the politics behind the push for Atlantic oil and gas development. It documented close ties between a group of pro-drilling governors and the energy...
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INSTITUTE INDEX: Atlantic drilling push meets opposition in coastal communities
An alliance of pro-drilling coastal state governors and the energy industry is pressing the Obama administration to open the Atlantic to oil and gas development. But a growing grassroots movement is...
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DRIVE TO DRILL: Gov. McCrory goes to bat for Big Energy
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has become a leading national advocate for expanded offshore drilling — a role that builds on almost three decades of his close personal, economic and political ties to...
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Texas company behind California oil spill a repeat offender
The disaster near Santa Barbara, the site of a 1969 oil spill that sparked the modern environmental movement, comes amid a push to open the Atlantic and Eastern Gulf to oil and gas drilling. It...
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Pro-privatization money behind bills to boost N.C. charter schools
Bills to provide additional funding for charter schools were introduced this session at the North Carolina legislature. Most of the sponsors have benefited from campaign donations or independent...
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Higher ed lobby quietly joins for-profit schools to roll back tighter rules
Traditional colleges and universities have become unlikely allies of the beleaguered for-profit industry as each group tries to fend off the government's push for more accountability.Image: via...
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Corporations under growing shareholder pressure to disclose political...
Over 100 corporations will receive shareholder resolutions this year calling on them to voluntarily disclose their political spending and lobbying activities. Some companies have already begun...
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DRIVE TO DRILL: Energy lobbyists behind governors' crusade for Atlantic oil
Five years after the BP disaster, a group of governors led by North Carolina's Pat McCrory is pushing for drilling in the Atlantic. A Facing South special investigation looks at the group's secretive...
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'Profiting From Misery': Private prison corporations driving harsh...
Companies spent millions in lobbying on immigration issues that led to a spike in incarceration levels and, in turn, boosted corporate profits.Image: A new report by Grassroots Leadership, a group...
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Duke Energy called out for targeting black community with 'cynical'...
In a letter to Duke CEO Lynn Good, an African-American minister and an environmental advocate criticize the utility's campaign to block the shift to solar power by trying to convince black community...
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Koch Industries tops list of water polluters spending big on politics
With a fight underway in Congress over protecting more U.S. waterways from industrial pollution, Environment America has issued a report looking at the millions of dollars spent on politics each year...
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Home Builders among North Carolina's top political power brokers
The N.C. Home Builders Association has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars supporting legislators' campaigns and employs a team of powerful lobbyists in Raleigh. What does it want in return?Image:...
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Southern Company caught promoting bad climate science again
The Atlanta-based utility giant is in the news for funding a controversial researcher whose work has been used to cast doubt on the overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity is driving...
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Conditions at for-profit immigrant detention facilities in Texas draw legal...
Though its immigrant deportation relief efforts have been put on hold, the Obama administration continues to carry out its policy of detaining Central American immigrant children and families...
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Tar Heel Power Brokers: Special interests spend big to get their way in Raleigh
A Facing South/Institute for Southern Studies report reveals the top power players in North Carolina politics, based on their lobbying clout and spending on state elections. It's a snapshot of the...
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Tar Heel Power Broker Profiles
In a new report, "Tar Heel Power Brokers," Facing South/Institute for Southern Studies ranks the top 101 most influential special interests in North Carolina politics through a combination of lobbying...
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Tar Heel Power Brokers
In a new report, "Tar Heel Power Brokers," Facing South/Institute for Southern Studies ranks the top 101 most influential special interests in North Carolina politics through a combination of lobbying...
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