COVID-19 : L'ÉTAT DONNE 20 MILLIARDS AUX POLLUEURS. Obama delayed regulations until after the election, but that’s just a symptom of the problem. Did the Obama administration delay the process of issuing public health and safety regulations until after the president was reelected?
That’s the attention-grabbing accusation reported Sunday in The Washington Post and in a new report from the Administrative Conference of the United States, a federal agency that advises on regulatory issues. Both the ACUS report and the Post article are based on anonymous interviews with current and former administration officials. The allegations, if true, suggest that the Obama administration meddled in the bureaucratic rule-making process and allowed the public to be left in danger from unsafe pollutants out of fear that political blowback would damage Obama’s chances in 2012. On the record, environmentalists and even industry opponents of regulation say rule-making notably slowed down in 2012. The Post reports: And so expediting the rule-making process will require rebalancing the whole system, putting the emphasis back on protection of the public.
Censure - Quand les multinationales utilisent le droit pour faire taire leurs critiques. Dimanche 15 décembre 2013 7 15 /12 /Déc /2013 14:26 Censure - Quand les multinationales utilisent le droit pour faire taire leurs critiques L'attaque n'est-elle pas la meilleure des défenses ?
Face aux voix critiques qui mettent en lumière les atteintes aux droits occasionnées par leurs activités, de plus en plus d'entreprises répondent en leur intentant des procès. Dans son bilan annuel sur la responsabilité juridique des multinationales, le Centre de ressources sur les entreprises et les droits humains attire l'attention sur le phénomène des « procès stratégiques » initiés par les grandes entreprises pour faire pression sur les militants ou les syndicalistes qui dénoncent leurs agissements.
Une pratique qui concerne aussi certains groupes français. © Liana Lopez/FlickrSiège de Chevron à Houston Poursuites (ou menaces de poursuites) contre des militants syndicaux, des lanceurs d'alerte, des activistes locaux, des journalistes ou des auteurs d'ouvrages... About Us. Born out of an audacious idea that halting the deadly marketing practices of the world’s largest food corporation, Nestlé, could save the lives of millions of newborns, we were then – and are still – at the forefront of the movement to challenge corporate abuse.
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