Last month, President Trump signed his first significant piece of legislation in to law, which has the effect of enabling corruption and secrecy in an already corruption-plagued industry. Using [...]
The events of last week lead many to the conclusion that America’s democracy is being destroyed. But I came to the realization that the American democracy was quite weak already. I came to this [...]
Since 2010, companies were required to disclose whether they obtained minerals from conflict zones in central Africa under the Dodd-Frank Consumer Protection Act. Last week, the D.C. Circuit [...]
Chiquita has been fighting to block the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) from releasing documents detailing the payments that Chiquita made to paramilitary terrorists in Colombia. But [...]
As a lawyer, you know you’re on the right side of justice when there are several dozen smiling young people wearing bright clothing and buttons that say “No Secret Deals” sitting behind you in [...]
Over the past 15 years, oil companies have paid more than $3 billion to resolve charges that they “regularly cheated the U.S. government and Native American communities out of royalties on [...]
A few months ago, the oil lobby sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), demanding that transparency requirements be watered down in the wake of a court ruling that sent [...]
I was excited to see today that Canadian industry associations representing the world’s largest mining companies have endorsed regulations requiring fully public disclosure of companies’s [...]
Last week, I finished working on the final brief of ERI’s client, Oxfam America, in the District Court lawsuit that the oil industry has filed to overturn landmark transparency legislation, [...]
I was thrilled last Thursday afternoon to hear that the SEC has blocked the oil industry’s first move in its attempt to undermine new transparency requirements. The American Petroleum Institute [...]
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