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Find out how challenging corporate power is necessary to bring about change.":1,"#Field notes for transformation: Summer 2025":1,"#Learn more about the impact of your ongoing support in the latest issue of Corporate Accountability's spotlight newsletter.":1,"#Spotlight newsletter: Issue 2, 2025":1,"#August 12, 2025":1,"#The court dismissed nearly all of the claims against Veolia last month, citing mainly procedural reasons. One claim remains, for unjust enrichment.":1,"#The emails, reviewed by the Guardian and MLive in a joint investigation, came to light in a lawsuit filed by the Michigan attorney general in the Genesee county circuit court. The lawsuit accused Veolia of “professional negligence, negligence, public nuisance, unjust enrichment and fraud”. The attorney general alleged Veolia gave Flint bad advice, and did not help it to prevent its lead crisis by pushing harder for safeguards against corrosion or a switch to a different water supply.":1,"#Five years later, the people of Flint continue to demand accountability for the water crisis, which exposed residents to high levels of lead, a potent neurotoxin. Children and infants who consumed the water are likely to suffer lifelong learning disabilities. Flint residents are still advised to either drink bottled water or filter it from the tap.":1,"#Flint began struggling with foul tasting, discolored water after switching to the Flint River as its supply in April 2014. Test results soon showed elevated levels of carcinogens. The water was corrosive, so it was releasing lead from pipes. The city found extraordinarily high lead levels in one resident’s water in February 2015, but residents were not made aware of the extent of the problem until September 2015.":1,"#But the company never made that recommendation public. At the time, Veolia was exploring other lucrative contracts with the city.":1,"#By Emily Holden, Ron Fonger, and Jessica Glenza for the Guardian and MLive. Executives at one of the world’s largest utilities companies knew that families in Flint, Michigan, might be at risk of being poisoned by lead in their tap water months before the city publicly admitted the problem, according to internal company emails. Email ...":1,"#The Guardian: Revealed: water company and city officials knew about Flint poison risk - Corporate Accountability":1,"#“The documents show a Veolia executive, a month before the corporation told the city its water was safe, saying that ‘lead seems to be a problem,’” she said. “I think anyone has to ask themselves how the story in Flint would be different five years later now if Veolia had made those private concerns public.”":1,"#Email exchanges in February 2015 between executives at Veolia and a city contractor show some senior employees were aware that lead from the city’s pipes could be leaching into drinking water. They argued that city officials should be told to change Flint’s water supply to protect residents.":1,"#Corporate Accountability’s spokeswoman, Alissa Weinman, called Veolia’s actions “despicable”.":1,"#Veolia was interested in securing future work with Flint in early 2015. On 19 February 2015, Veolia’s communications vice-president, Scott Edwards, said in an email that work already under way in Flint could lead to a $15m to $30m annual contract. Veolia disputes that its recommendations in Flint might have been colored by the prospect of future business with the city.":1,"#Flint’s former mayor Dayne Walling said in response to questions about Veolia’s work that he “understood the scope to be comprehensive, scientific and technical in regards to the water safety and quality”.":1,"#Ambrose could not be reached for comment through an attorney who has represented him in matters related to the water crisis. Multiple attempts were made to contact Ambrose for comment on this article.":1,"#Veolia today maintains that Flint’s emergency manager, Gerald Ambrose, would not discuss changing the water source. Ambrose told Veolia to “assess the current situation and provide recommendations to address the stated problems” and “not be drawn into discussion” on the merits of the water switch, according to an email on 14 February 2015.":1,"#When Veolia’s director of treatment plant operations, Joseph Nasuta, said that Veolia’s business development department, or “BD”, was refusing to suggest the switch, Fahey reiterated: “Go on record with BD that we should advise Flint to open the valve from Detroit if we believe that is the best technical solution. DO NOT let BD make any technical calls. PLEASE… this will come back and bite us.”":1,"#Multiple emails show individuals at Veolia clashing over whether to recommend that Flint change its water source. Veolia’s technology vice-president Fahey in February told the engineering vice-president, Kevin Hagerty: “If the best ‘technical decision is to go back to the city of Detroit as its supplier’ we should not be afraid to make that call. Just make sure that the politics of this should not get in the way of making the best recommendation.”":1,"#“There is no process control, plant operators are not well trained, data is not well managed or trended, just reported to the state,” Gnagy, the water process and quality manager for Veolia, wrote in a work summary dated 12 February 2015.":1,"#The internal Veolia emails show Veolia executives were quick to recognize that Flint’s water system was fraught with problems that stemmed from lack of investment, outdated equipment and unqualified workers.":1,"#LAN officials have said Flint emergency managers routinely ignored doing what was best for the city’s water system and instead did what was cheapest.":1,"#Executives at one of the world’s largest utilities companies knew that families in Flint, Michigan, might be at risk of being poisoned by lead in their tap water months before the city publicly admitted the problem, according to internal company emails.":1,"#Flint residents have filed more than a dozen lawsuits against the city, the state and the federal government. The state attorney general is suing the two companies hired to help at the time – Veolia and Lockwood Andrews Newman (LAN), which worked with Flint before the water switch.":1,"#The crisis in Flint, a majority-black city of 100,000, has served as a rallying cry for victims of environmental racism across the US. And Flint’s experience has been a precursor to lead discoveries in the water in Detroit; Newark, New Jersey; and Pittsburgh.":1,"#A clash over solutions":1,"#An MLive article on that presentation was headlined: “Despite quality problems, ‘Your water is safe,’ says Flint consultant.”":1,"#Veolia’s interim water quality report, presented on 18 February, said: “Safe = Compliance with state and federal standards and required testing. Latest tests show water is in compliance with drinking water standards.”":1,"#“They were like, ‘everything is fine,” Shariff said. To her, Veolia’s assessment at the time “raised more questions and didn’t add up to what we were beginning to see”.":1,"#She remembers feeling the company downplayed the concerns of residents.":1,"#Nayyirah Shariff, director of the local activism group Flint Rising, recalls presentations Veolia executives made to city officials and the public at the time, in a news conference on 10 February and public meetings on 18 February and 19 March.":1,"#“It is critical when analyzing what happened in Flint to remember the context of the situation at the time it occurred; we now know in 2019 the myriad of ways that the government officials behaved badly, but as the Flint water crisis unfolded many of those facts were unknown, concealed and covered up by the government perpetrators,” Veolia said.":1,"#In a 20-page response to questions from the Guardian and MLive, Veolia argued that city and state officials caused the crisis and are now “trying to create a corporate villain where one does not exist”.":1,"#By Emily Holden, Ron Fonger, and Jessica Glenza for the <a ljsid-1=\"\">Guardian</a> and <a ljsid-3=\"\">MLive</a>.":1,"#Months prior, in 2014, Flint had switched its water supply from the Detroit water system to the Flint River. But the Flint River water was not properly treated to reduce its corrosive properties on old pipes. So in addition to the bacteria and trihalomethanes, lead from the pipes began to flow into local taps.":1,"#Veolia said it nonetheless warned city officials about the possibility of lead contamination, and that the city resisted discussions of changing its water supply. Veolia said it warned the then mayor, Dayne Walling, about how the corrosive water could cause lead to leach from the pipes and raised corrosion in a final public report to the city on 18 March 2015. But that report did not disclose the possibility for lead contamination, focusing instead on how corrosion could be causing water discoloration.":1,"#But Veolia has said it was only hired by the city to assess bacteria and harmful chlorine compounds (trihalomethanes) in Flint’s water supply, not lead.":1,"#Veolia signed a $40,000 contract with Flint on 10 February 2015 for a “top-down assessment” of Flint water, and its proposal said it would review and evaluate the city’s water treatment process and distribution system.":1,"#‘The facts were unknown, concealed and covered up’":1,"#Days later, Bill Fahey, Veolia’s technology vice-president, emailed senior executives calling for the company to advise Flint to change its water supply, adding that “the politics of this should not get in the way of making the best recommendation”. Reiterating the call in another email, he added: “PLEASE… this will come back and bite us.”":1,"#Nicholas forwarded the information to Veolia engineer Marvin Gnagy, adding: “Yep. Lead seems to be a problem.”":1,"#“Do not pass this on,” wrote Rob Nicholas, then the vice-president of development, in an email to Veolia executives. “The city however needs to be aware of this problem with lead and operate the system to minimize this as much as possible and consider the impact in future plans. We had already identified that as something to be reviewed.”":1,"#On 9 February 2015, a Veolia vice-president wrote an email to company executives saying the firm had previously identified the risk of lead contamination.":1,"#The internal Veolia emails, obtained from the court by the watchdog group Corporate Accountability, show company executives discussing the possibility of lead seven months before the city confirmed the problem publicly.":1,"#December 10, 2019":1,"#BOGOTA, COLOMBIA – Despite promising a “smoke-free future,” Big Tobacco continues to advertise its products to the next generation according to a report out today (May 10) authored by <a ljsid-1=\"\">Responsabilidad Corporativa</a> and Colombian NGO <a ljsid-3=\"\">Educar Consumidores</a>.":1,"#“The tactics used by Big Tobacco companies are not an accident – from surrounding schools with their cigarette brands and marketing to advertising cigarettes at a child’s eye level. These tactics have been intentionally designed to hook Colombian kids on deadly and addictive products.”":1,"#executive summary in English here":1,"#full report in Spanish here":1,"#Big Tobacco, Tiny Targets: Colombia investigates the sale of tobacco products in close vicinity to schools and other places of interest to kids. While Colombia completely banned tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship (TAPS) in 2009, the industry takes advantage of lax enforcement to heavily promote cigarettes and other tobacco products to kids. (View the":1,"#and Colombian NGO":1,"#BOGOTA, COLOMBIA – Despite promising a “smoke-free future,” Big Tobacco continues to advertise its products to the next generation according to a report out today (May 10) authored by":1,"#Surgeon and medical researcher who \"organized America's first large-scale blood bank and trained a generation of black physicians at Howard University.\"  Read more.":1,"#Charles R. Drew - Corporate Accountability":1,"#Not Antonio? <a ljsid-1=\"\">Click here</a>.":1,"#Welcome back, Antonio!":1,"#Comprobado por Zero Phishing":1,"#Escaneo por Zero Phishing":1,"#Not scaarzambrano? <a ljsid-1=\"\">Click here</a>.":1,"#Welcome back, scaarzambrano!":1,"#Associate Director of Equity and Major Gifts and Program Director of the Black Collective":1,"#Ann-Michelle Roberts":1,"#Portrait photo of Ann-Michelle Roberts wearing a pink blazer.":1,"#Please choose one nominee":1,"#Not Carmen? <a ljsid-1=\"\">Click here</a>.":1,"#Welcome back, Carmen!":1,"#Not ivonney? <a ljsid-1=\"\">Click here</a>.":1,"#Welcome back, ivonney!":1,"#Not Sara? <a ljsid-1=\"\">Click here</a>.":1,"#Welcome back, Sara!":1,"#Not Anija? <a ljsid-1=\"\">Click here</a>.":1,"#Welcome back, Anija!":1,"#Not Margarita? <a ljsid-1=\"\">Click here</a>.":1,"#Welcome back, Margarita!":1,"#Not Juan Carlos? <a ljsid-1=\"\">Click here</a>.":1,"#Welcome back, Juan Carlos!":1,"#OF SHAME":1,"#Not Birgit? <a ljsid-1=\"\">Click here</a>.":1,"#Welcome back, Birgit!":1,"#The corporate takeover of U.S. government has been years in the making. It’s about way more than just one or two billionaires. And every one of us can do something about it.":1,"#Learn how we and our allies are challenging corporate abuse—from exposing fossil fuel lobbyists at U.N. climate talks to building people power against the corporate-backed Trump administration.":1,"#Spotlight newsletter: Issue 1, 2025":1,"#A woman in a orange and black cape holds up a fan of dollar bills, next to a giant blow up snake. Behind her, people hold signs that read \"pay up!\"":1,"#That’s why Corporate Accountability supports the work of organizations like the <a ljsid-1=\"\">African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council</a>, the <a ljsid-3=\"\">Center for Black Health and Equity</a>, and the <a ljsid-5=\"\">Black Women’s Health Initiative</a>, and joins the calls of the Black leadership that are organizing to address the racist impacts of this deadly industry. Take action with these allies today to end the sale of flavored tobacco products and demand Big Tobacco stop attempting to co-opt Black liberation movements. You can read more on Big Tobacco’s racist roots <a ljsid-7=\"\">aquí</a>.":1,"#, and joins the calls of the Black leadership that are organizing to address the racist impacts of this deadly industry. Take action with these allies today to end the sale of flavored tobacco products and demand Big Tobacco stop attempting to co-opt Black liberation movements. You can read more on Big Tobacco’s racist roots":1,"#Only tobacco, a product so deadly, could have such a reach, and such a twisted history.":1,"#Big Tobacco is one of the most powerful industries in the world. When used exactly as intended, tobacco is the only legal product designed to kill its consumer. Yet, an estimated 1.1 billion people smoke around the world.":1,"#The industry pays its farmers menial wages that keep them trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty, and reaps the benefits of child labor in the fields.":1,"#The country is further exploited for its workforce, where children as young as 5 work in the fields.":1,"#This deadly industry continues to exploit Black labor and extract wealth from Black communities. African nations such as Malawi are dependent on tobacco—with the leaf accounting for 70% of the country’s foreign earnings.":1,"#As tobacco consumption in the United States has dramatically decreased since the late 90’s, the tobacco industry has transplanted its workforce and epidemic of smoking-related diseases overseas. No longer is it exploiting people in the U.S. on the same level; instead, it’s focused on prying open the markets of countries in the Global South.":1,"#This is equivalent the combined GDP—$852 billion—of Ukraine, Ecuador, Cuba, Slovakia, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, Kenya, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Oman, and Luxembourg.":1,"#The tobacco industry that we know today is a far cry from the Indigenous medicinal uses of the plant people first cultivated centuries ago. The tobacco industry is valued at $850 billion globally.":1,"#In fact, U.S. national data from 2016 showed that between 74 and 88% of Black people reported smoking menthol-flavored cigarettes, compared to only 26% of white people.":1,"#Throughout the 1950s and 60s, Big Tobacco began strategically targeting Black communities. Corporations like RJ Reynolds took advantage of racially segregated neighborhoods and bombarded the Black community with advertisements and promotions for menthol cigarettes, creating an entire generation of smokers addicted to its brands.":1,"#The result was decades of closely intertwined partnerships between tobacco giants and prominent members of the Black community. While on the surface these relationships appeared rooted in the advancement of Black communities, tobacco corporations such as Philip Morris leveraged these relationships to addict more consumers and advocate against tobacco control legislation.":1,"#During the 1950s, tobacco giant Phillip Morris began to cultivate relationships with Black organizations such as the National Urban League, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) at a time when other major corporations shied away from building relationships with them.":1,"#No group was more targeted in the U.S. than Black people. The industry went from seeing Black people as a labor source, to the butt of jokes in racist advertising, to a new market to exploit. After World War II, Black people were no longer a group to be stereotyped in advertising, but instead a market the industry could forge industry-friendly relations with and target directly with its products.":1,"#These tobacco corporations—two of which have modern iterations (RJ Reynolds and Philip Morris International)—and their relentless drive for profits led to the development of Big Tobacco’s infamous playbook: the menu of deadly and manipulative tactics pioneered by this industry and adopted by others like Big Polluters. In order to hook consumers and maintain growth of markets, the industry perfected tactics such as health-washing, promoting junk science, interfering in policymaking, and youth-targeted marketing. The industry became adept at side-stepping corporate accountability by widely promoting a narrative of personal responsibility and choice, all while utilizing racially targeted marketing to increase sales.":1,"#This machine would allow cigarettes to be produced on a massive scale, leading to a boom in tobacco smoking and the growth of an industry. The founding of three major tobacco corporations, starting in 1847 with Philip Morris Tobacco Company, propelled the marketing and distribution of the new tobacco product.":1,"#The early 1800s saw demand switch from loose tobacco for smoking pipes and chewing tobacco to cigarettes. While tobacco use rose and fell throughout the 19th century, it would gain a new life with the invention of the cigarette rolling machine in 1880.":1,"#A handful of white men continued to create wealth for themselves through their deadly exploitation of Black labor and lives to produce tobacco.":1,"#But instead of a system where laborers received fair wages for their work, sharecropping was just slavery by another name.":1,"#Once chattel slavery ended, following the Civil War, sharecropping would fill the labor void.":1,"#In fact, the plantation system that dominated American agriculture in the 19th century grew out of tobacco cultivation. Under the burning suns of the South, enslaved people from Africa transformed the “golden weed” into a cash crop.":1,"#It was on the backs of enslaved Black people that American agriculture grew.":1,"#The population of enslaved Africans in the U.S. rose from an estimated 100,000 at the beginning of the 18th century to a staggering four million by the start of the Civil War.":1,"#By the end of the 17th century, demand for tobacco steadily increased while the indentured servant work force dwindled. Tobacco plantations and farmers faced a continually shrinking labor force; enslaved people from Africa unwillingly filled that demand.":1,"#Tobacco is an extremely labor-intensive crop. The plantation system, and its brutal forced labor, allowed tobacco growing to flourish.":1,"#Thanks to its rumored medicinal properties, including its ability to cure the plague, tobacco swept through Europe like wildfire, and its roots deepened in the North American colonies.":1,"#Jamestown exported 2,300 pounds of tobacco to England between 1615 and 1616; by 1630, that figure rose to more than a million and a half pounds.":1,"#Within a decade, tobacco was booming in Virginia and went from being a medicine plant to the “golden weed” of the colonies.":1,"#Recreational smoking of tobacco gained traction among white colonists in the mid-16th century when English colonist John Rolfe began growing tobacco in the Jamestown settlement.":1,"#Regardless of its many names, once Europeans got their first taste, they were hooked.":1,"#1492. A year immortalized in history books around the globe. The year that European colonizers first invaded the Western hemisphere. The year that Christopher Columbus and his crew were first introduced to a plant that Indigenous people crushed up and smoked. This large green leaf went by many names in the Americas—from picietl in modern-day Mexico, to petun along the modern-day Brazilian coast—but it is best known today by English speakers as tobacco.":1,"#Not Nicole? <a ljsid-1=\"\">Click here</a>.":1,"#Welcome back, Nicole!":1,"#Portuguese":1,"#Check out the infographic in":1,"#(240 characters remaining)":1,"#(231 characters remaining)":1,"#This war profiteering is not new for Lockheed Martin — it’s the core of its business model. At the same time, Lockheed has cozied up to political power, donating $1 million to both Donald Trump and Joe Biden’s inaugural committees. Now, the corporation stands to benefit greatly from the Trump regime’s review of foreign military equipment sales policies that aim to further boost weapons sales.":1,"#Recently, Lockheed Martin has come under scrutiny for its role in supplying the Israeli military with the weapons used in the ongoing assault on Gaza. According to a July 2025 report by the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, arms corporations, including Lockheed Martin, are complicit in the genocide in Gaza by enabling Israel’s military campaign through the continuous supply of weapons and military technologies.":1,"#But Tesla's concerning safety record isn't its only failing. Elon Musk has wielded his immense social and political influence through X, the social media platform he owns and operates, and through his involvement with the Trump regime in its earliest days of its second term. Through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Musk helped slash essential government programs, promoted cuts that have resulted in hundreds of thousands of workers being laid off, and was involved in an immense data breach of citizen's sensitive data with potentially disastrous consequences. It's CEO sought to undermine the heart of the nation's most essential services and programs — a terrifying expansion and entrenchment of corporate power that undermines democratic governance.":1,"#Lockheed Martin is one of the most powerful and profitable corporations on the planet — because it profits from war. As the largest weapons manufacturer in the world, Lockheed Martin fuels and benefits from armed conflict, militarism, and human suffering on a massive scale.":1,"#for profiteering from war and destruction globally by being one of the world’s largest weapons manufacturers and one of the biggest drivers of the military industrial complex, and for its role in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.":1,"#A recent study found that from 2018 to 2022, Tesla had the highest fatal accident rate of any major brand on U.S. roads. And not by a little, but by double the U.S. national average. Meanwhile, a new Guardian investigation shared harrowing accounts of Teslas crashing without clear reason or accelerating or braking abruptly — sometimes with children onboard.":1,"#But it's not just aligning itself with the regime, the bank is plotting how to privatize public institutions — most notably the U.S. Postal Service. It has been actively promoting proposals that would allow it and other corporations to participate in postal privatization schemes, thereby profiting from dismantling a vital public service.":1,"#Wells Fargo has quietly rolled back its internal DEI initiatives, succumbing to conservative pressure to dismantle these programs and mute its diversity reporting, which is especially egregious given Wells Fargo's well-documented roots in profiting from and exacerbating systemic racism. This is seen as a way of signalling the bank's acquiescence to the Trump regime.":1,"#Wells Fargo has established itself as a bank that not only profits from systemic wrongdoing but also actively abandons its public promises when political winds shift. Under the emerging Trump regime, the financial giant has dramatically altered course, backing away from commitments from diversity to transparency.":1,"#for giving in to the regime’s agenda by scaling back on its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies in spite of its longstanding exacerbation of systemic racism, and plotting how corporations can benefit from privatization of public services like the U.S. Postal Service.":1,"#Tesla presents itself as a forward-thinking automaker, but beneath the veneer of innovation lies a troubling pattern of persistent safety concerns, corporate obfuscation, and CEO Elon Musk's attempts to capture and weild government influence for his own benefit.":1,"#In the U.S., PMI has some deep ties to the Trump regime. It donated half a million dollars to Trump’s inauguration fund. Thanks to those ties, the Trump regime has rolled back public health protections like the proposed ban on menthol cigarettes and shuttered the CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health — moves public health advocates called a “gift to Big Tobacco”.":1,"#PMI continues to spend millions lobbying to stop public health measures worldwide like efforts to limit flavored nicotine and vaping products. In places like the Philippines, PMI has undermined public health policies by exploiting relationships with local officials.":1,"#Philip Morris International (PMI), one of the largest tobacco corporations in the world, has long positioned itself as a public health partner while continuing to addict new generations to nicotine and fuel preventable health epidemics. PMI aggressively markets harmful products that kill more than 8 million people world wide every year — including heated tobacco devices and flavored vapes — often to young people and new users in the Global South. The company has been accused of manipulating science, targeting doctors and politicians, and even sponsoring global events like Formula 1 to normalize and promote nicotine use.":1,"#for its relentless role in perpetuating nicotine addiction and continuing to profit from the sale of cigarettes, mainly in the Global South.":1,"#for ongoing safety issues of its vehicles and CEO Elon Musk’s outsized and insidious role in the current regime.":1,"#Globally, Chevron ranks among the top corporate climate polluters, and it continues to expand fossil fuel operations while using deceptive greenwashing and advertising to appear climate-conscious. It has also worked to undermine climate action through lobbying and election contributions — including donating to Trump's 2025 inaugural committee. These contributions came after Trump allegedy promised to grant the fossil fuel industry tax breaks, slashed environmental regulations, and loosened rules in exchange for requested campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry. And the Trump regime has already announced its plans to roll back regulations on emissions from oil and gas production.":1,"#Chevron has built its business through an agenda of pollution, deception, and political influence. In Ecuador Texaco (which later merged with Chevron) dumped over 16 billion gallons of toxic wastewater into the Amazon, contaminating water and soil and impacting Indigenous communities to this day — while Chevron continues to evade responsibility. In Richmond, California, its refinery has polluted a majority-Black and Brown community for decades, and Chevron has worked to undermine local initiatives to hold it accountable, all to protect its operations.":1,"#for its role in fueling the climate crisis through the expansion of its oil and gas business and contributing directly to the Trump inauguration.":1,"#We're nominating":1,"#Despite this track record, GEO continues to rake in millions in taxpayer-funded contracts, in large part thanks to its ties to the Trump regime. GEO Group was the first corporation to max out its contributions to Trump's campaign and poured over $1 million to Trump re-election efforts. In return, it benefits handsomely from cruel immigration policies and mass incarceration strategies undertaken by the regime. The corporation has already secured a number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contracts or commitments for it's private detention centers worth tens of millions of dollars each year, and is expecting more to come, with one expert calling this moment a \"gold rush\" for the industry.":1,"#GEO Group profits from the incarceration and detention of people from Black, Brown, and immigrant communities. Through its vast network of private prisons and immigrant detention centers, GEO has continuously prioritized profits over human dignity — often at a horrifying cost. Numerous reports and lawsuits have been brought against GEO for allegedly subjecting people in its custody to dangerous and inhumane conditions, from unsafe food and unavailability of water, to prolonged exposure to toxic chemicals at its Adelanto facility in California.":1,"#for facilitating and benefiting from the Trump regime’s cruel and brutal immigration policies through its private immigrant detention centers.":1,"#STATEMENT: Ultimately, the Bonn climate talks didn’t save lives. The Bonn climate talks condemned them.":1,"#The following statement was delivered by Samantha Marinelli, an organizer at Corporate Accountability. Hello, my name is Samantha Marinelli and ...":1,"#Statement: 2025 Philip Morris International (PMI) annual shareholders’ meeting":1,"#May 7, 2025":1,"#We support community organizations in rejecting Houston's budget proposal, which slashes critical funding for communities.":1,"#Statement: Houston’s budget proposal threatens critical infrastructure":1,"#June 5, 2025":1,"#The following statement was delivered today by Rachel Rose Jackson, Corporate Accountability’s Director of Climate Research and Policy, on June ...":1,"#STATEMENT from Rachel Rose Jackson of Corporate Accountability and members of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice on the breakdown of the UN Climate Talks in Bonn":1,"#June 19, 2025":1,"#FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New analysis reveals how unsuccessful the “VCM 2.0” reform is to-date at plugging the failures of the ...":1,"#Today, June 26, 2025, Rachel Rose Jackson, Corporate Accountability’s Director of Research and International Climate Policy, issued the following statement ...":1,"#June 26, 2025":1,"#New analysis reveals how unsuccessful the “VCM 2.0” reform is to-date at plugging the failures of the voluntary carbon market and delivering global emissions reductions":1,"#Not Hector? <a ljsid-1=\"\">Click here</a>.":1,"#Welcome back, Hector!":1,"#WRITE NOW!":1,"#Fight back against the silencing of those who don’t agree with the billionaire agenda.":1,"#Take action! The “nonprofit killer” measure is back":1,"#Corporate Accountability Statement of Flint/Pittsburgh Day of Action":1,"#Debunking corporate climate schemes. Protecting youth from Big Tobacco's predatory marketing. Read more about what you helped make possible.":1,"#Spotlight newsletter: Issue 3, 2024":1,"#December 19, 2024":1,"#Not Maria Mercedes? <a ljsid-1=\"\">Click here</a>.":1,"#Welcome back, Maria Mercedes!":1,"#(239 characters remaining)":1,"#(241 characters remaining)":1,"#In this infographic, we dig deep into what those costs look like on public health, the economy, and the environment. It’s time that governments and other decision-makers take courageous action to make this deadly industry pay for the harms it has caused.":1,"#Brazil one of the top three largest tobacco growing countries in the world. Tobacco production takes up more than 350,000 hectares of land, and the country churns out more than 765,000 tonnes of tobacco leaves per year.":1,"#Check out the infographic in <a ljsid-1=\"\">Spanish</a> and <a ljsid-3=\"\">Portuguese</a>.":1,"#Infographic: the true cost of Big Tobacco in Brazil - Corporate Accountability":1,"#While the industry profits, it’s people that pay the costs.":1,"#That’s why Corporate Accountability supports the work of organizations like the":1,"#, the":1,"#Black Women’s Health Initiative":1,"#, and the":1,"#Marcia Whitehead - Corporate Accountability":1,"#“This is relationship-based work,” says Marcia. “And I am proud to lead a team of people who believe in the importance of being a politically independent and member -powered organization. Every day, we have the privilege to partner with our members to rein in corporate power and influence.”":1,"#Pronouns: She/her/hers “This is relationship-based work,” says Marcia.  “And I am proud to lead a team of people who believe in the importance of being a politically independent and member -powered organization. Every day, we have the privilege to partner with our members to rein in corporate power and influence.” In leading the development team, ...":1,"#Marcia has always believed in public policy as a way to create positive change in the world. After all, she graduated from Wesleyan University with a bachelor’s degree in American government and public policy. But after working for a few years in electoral politics, it became even clearer to her that the deep and entrenched influence of corporations in policymaking and elections was preventing the kind of change she wanted to see. That’s why she was thrilled to find Corporate Accountability in 2009, when she started as the membership manager. And why she is happy to have been working for the better part of a decade to challenge out-of-control corporate power directly.":1,"#She also plays a role in building the Corporate Accountability team, which for this two-sport college athlete is a major highlight: “Hardly anything is as fun as building and working on a team that is stronger than the sum of its parts.”":1,"#In leading the development team, Marcia works with staff across the organization, members, and philanthropic partners across the country. She ensures Corporate Accountability has both the financial resources and the people power we need to both wage long-term strategic campaigns as well as respond effectively and rapidly to new challenges posed by corporate influence and power.":1,"#Por <a ljsid-1=\"\">Ari Rubenstein</a>":1,"#Lockheed Martin Ends DEI Programs":1,"#Trump Meets with Defense Executives":1,"#Trump, Zyn, and RFK Jr. on Nicotine":1,"#Philip Morris Lobbying to Stop WHO Attack on Vapes":1,"#Fossil Fuel Donors Contributed $19 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund":1,"#UN Expert: Business Deals Fuel Gaza Campaign":1,"#Corporate DEI Strategies":1,"#Wells Fargo Departs Climate Banking Group":1,"#Richmond, California, and Chevron Oil":1,"#Elon Musk, Doge, Privacy Data Breach":1,"#1. Vote for one":1,"#Trump Administration and EPA Prison Company Donations":1,"#Doge and USDA Farmers Data":1,"#Trump Administration Defense Review":1,"#Lockheed Martin Earnings Report":1,"#Activists":1,"#Trump Effect on Lockheed and NATO Spending":1,"#Defense Jobs as Political Props":1,"#Wells Fargo's Push to Privatize USPS":1,"#CDC Closing Office on Smoking Health":1,"#Trump and Big Oil Executives' Alleged Deal Explained":1,"#Chevron Donating to Trump's Inaugural Committee":1,"#CoreCivic and Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill":1,"#Elon Musk, Doge, and Government Chaos":1,"#Tobacco Giant Philip Morris Accused of Manipulating Science":1,"#Private Prison Behemoth Maxes Out to Trump":1,"#The Vehicle Suddenly Accelerated with Our Baby in It":1,"#Lockheed Martin's $1M Inauguration Donation":1,"#Pharma and Trump Inauguration":1,"#Portrait of Kofi, dark-skinned man with long hair that's tied behind his back. He is wearing glasses and a Corporate Accountability T-shirt and is looking straight at the camera.":1,"#On Saturday, May 17, 2025, Corporate Accountability gave the following statement at the Flint/Pittsburgh Day of Action: “Everyone, no matter ...":1,"#From the cartoons of the 80s and 90s to toy-themed e-cigarettes, corporations have a history of luring youth into nicotine addiction.":1,"#Study Findings":1,"#“The study shows that the degree of exposure of tobacco products faced by minors in the country is high,” emphasized Esperanza Cerón, physician and director of Educar Consumidores. “Where is the Superintendency of Industry and Commerce to take strong action on this obvious violation of Colombian law by the tobacco industry?”":1,"#Daniel Dorado, representative of Corporate Accountability for Latin America, said, “The tobacco industry is violating the rights of children and adolescents that are enshrined in the nation’s constitution. The authorities must protect these rights and hold corporations accountable for their transgressions.”":1,"#Big Tobacco, Tiny Targets: Colombia investigates the sale of tobacco products in close vicinity to schools and other places of interest to kids. While Colombia completely banned tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship (TAPS) in 2009, the industry takes advantage of lax enforcement to heavily promote cigarettes and other tobacco products to kids. (View the <a ljsid-1=\"\">full report in Spanish here</a> and the <a ljsid-3=\"\">executive summary in English here</a>.)":1,"#BOGOTA, COLOMBIA – Despite promising a “smoke-free future,” Big Tobacco continues to advertise its products to the next generation according to a report out today (May 10) authored by <a ljsid-1=\"\">Corporate Accountability</a> and Colombian NGO <a ljsid-3=\"\">Educar Consumidores</a>.":1,"#82% of documented vendors sell single cigarettes for an average of 15 cents each, making them more accessible to young people.":1,"#Nearly 60% of documented cigarette displays are placed near candy and/or at eye level of youth. In 62% of cases, health warnings are obscured.":1,"#Despite promising a “smoke-free future,” Big Tobacco continues to advertise its products to the next generation according to report authored by Corporate Accountability and Colombian NGO Educar Consumidores.":1,"#Study: Despite decades-long advertising ban, Big Tobacco still markets to children in Colombia":1,"#Colombian youth are exposed to tobacco promotion around their schools, with cigarette displays commonly featuring marketing attractive to youth, such as striking colors.":1,"#“The tactics used by Big Tobacco companies are not an accident – from surrounding schools with their cigarette brands and marketing to advertising cigarettes at a child’s eye level. These tactics have been intentionally designed to hook Colombian kids on deadly and addictive products.”<br ljsid-1=\"\"> ###":1,"#“Tobacco companies like British American Tobacco and Philip Morris International will stop at nothing to market their products to kids in Colombia because they need to addict new customers,” says Patricia Sosa, Director of Programs for Latin America of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, which has collected data on tobacco marketing to children in more than 43 countries.":1,"#Researchers concluded that Colombian leaders must strengthen the implementation of public policies, use their authority to protect the space around educational institutions, and denounce the tobacco industry for violating the rights of children and adolescents.":1,"#Vivas also notes that the law prohibits the sale of single cigarettes.":1,"#Diana Vivas, lawyer and researcher at Educar Consumidores, commented that, “The display of tobacco products is carried out as an act of advertising, demonstrating a clear breach of the national and international regulations in force in Colombia, which prohibit the advertising and promotion of tobacco products and their derivatives.”":1,"#In 35% of the reported cases, the cigarettes were in a location that allowed consumers to access them without any intermediation by the seller.":1,"#In 96% of the cases, the tobacco products were visible at the points of sale. In 55% of the cases, the products were exhibited at a child’s eye level. In 57% of the cases, their display was near sweets and treats.":1,"#66% of vendors are located on the street (kiosks and itinerant salespeople), meaning children are exposed to tobacco advertising without ever needing to enter a store.":1,"#In 82% of cases, cigarettes are sold per unit rather than as a full pack, making them more accessible to young people.":1,"#Researchers identified a total of 196 points of sale of tobacco products that were close to schools and other areas of interest for children and adolescents. They found that:":1,"#New Study: Big Tobacco heavily markets cigarettes to children in Colombia, despite decade-long ban on tobacco advertising":1,"#May 13, 2022":1,"#A woman speaks into a megaphone at a protest. People in the background hold signs that read end Fossil Fuels Now.":1,"#November 18, 2024":1,"#¡La gente y el planeta!":1},"version":6695}]