Tag: Big Tobacco
Trump-backed PAC took $5 million from tobacco giant before FDA opened...
A multimillion-dollar contribution from Reynolds American was disclosed days before tobacco executives met with President Trump and less than a week before federal regulators issued guidance that could expand flavored vape sales and benefit major cigarette manufacturers.
Pesticide industry ‘helped write’ disinformation playbook used by Big Oil and...
New analysis sheds light on key tactics Monsanto used to distort science and spin the narrative in defense of its herbicide product.
Big tobacco got caught in a lie by Congress. Now it’s...
Here's the question for the Big Oil 4: will you apologize, here today, for your company's decades of lying about climate change?
Big Tobacco’s surprising new campaign to raise the smoking age
Altria, Reynolds and Juul say they’re trying to do the right thing, while health groups say firms are pushing laws stuffed with loopholes.
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The conservative ‘plan’ to dismantle public schools is entering the home stretch
The Republican Party’s crusade to cap or abolish local property taxes is the latest tactic in their effort to drain funding from public education.
The roots of the US-Russia rivalry
Russia-U.S. relations became most visible during their Cold War confrontation and are now dangerously dysfunctional. Long-established suspicion and overlapping interests have shaped periods of cooperation and competition for centuries, a cycle that risks repeating itself indefinitely.
The White House intervened to get a $620 million deal for a company tied...
About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company.
The ripple effects of organizing against data centers
One city’s success in stopping a data center grew into a regional movement that’s notching wins across the San Gabriel Valley.
As Americans struggle, Trump’s wealth soars
Trump is flouting regulations to reap billions for himself, as ordinary Americans teeter on the edge of economic ruin.