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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: 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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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: 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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