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Sheldon Whitehouse: Sue Fossil Fuel Companies for Climate Fraud
2015-06-05 14:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: In a May 29 op-ed in The Washington Post, Whitehouse argued that the fossil fuel industrys efforts to discredit climate science and attack environmentalists may constitute deliberate deception of the kind the tobacco industry perpetrated in previous decades. In 2006, a federal judge found the tobacco industry guilty of fraud in a civil lawsuit brought under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). Cigarette companies' efforts to hide the health effects of tobacco consumption...
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How Companies Justify Big Pay Raises for CEOs
2015-06-05 10:23:38| Appliances - Topix.net
When deciding how much to pay their senior executives, the directors at Jarden Corp. - the owner of brands including Yankee Candle, Rawlings sports equipment, and Bicycle playing cards - use what might seem to be an unlikely measuring stick: the top managers at Oracle Corp., the world's largest data-base maker. Oracle is one of 14 companies Jarden identified in 2011 as a "peer"to help it gauge the going rate for executive pay - a common practice among boards when setting compensation for top managers.
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What's changed (and what hasn't) among Charlotte's Fortune 500 companies
2015-06-05 07:29:29| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Charlotte added a company to the Fortune 500 list this year, bringing the region's representation on the annual ranking of the largest public companies in the U.S. up to eight from seven.
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Six Pittsburgh companies make Fortune 500; Allegheny County Health...
2015-06-05 06:39:52| Chemicals - Topix.net
Six Pittsburgh-area companies made thce cut for Fortune Magazine's 61st Fortune 500 list. In total, Fortune 500 companies generate $12.5 trillion in revenues, $945 billion in profits, $17 trillion in market value and 26.8 million jobs, according to Fortune.
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Six Pittsburgh companies make Fortune 500; Allegheny County Health...
2015-06-05 06:14:01| Steel - Topix.net
Six Pittsburgh-area companies made thce cut for Fortune Magazine's 61st Fortune 500 list. In total, Fortune 500 companies generate $12.5 trillion in revenues, $945 billion in profits, $17 trillion in market value and 26.8 million jobs, according to Fortune.
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