ExxonMobil Gears Up For Publicity Battle As US Oil Reserve Estimates Climb

The U.S. will produce enough oil to account for a third of the world’s new supply within only the next five years, says a new report.

Trisha Marczak
By Trisha Marczak

As America battles the prospect of a 1,700 mile Keystone XL pipeline constructed in the heartland of the nation that would transport more than 800,000 of oil through the U.S. every day, the oil-fracking movement is gaining even more traction with a new report indicating the nation has more oil than experts thought. A report released by the

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How The World Bank Funds Illegal Logging In Cambodia And Laos

Villagers have been sued and prosecuted, intimidated, threatened and shot at while trying to defend their livelihoods.

Denise Hruby
By Denise Hruby

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Five-months pregnant, Im Chanthy was told that her husband's body had been found in the trunk of his car, brutally hacked to death for reporting on illegal logging and land concessions in Cambodia. Many of these concessions, a new report by environmental watchdog Global Witness found, are owned by two Vietnamese rubber

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The 182 Percent Loan: How Installment Lenders Put Borrowers In A World Of Hurt

World Finance, a billion-dollar company, peddles installment loans, a product that often drives borrowers into a similar quagmire of debt.

Paul Kiel
By Paul Kiel

One day late last year, Katrina Sutton stood at a gas pump outside Atlanta and swiped her debit card. Insufficient funds. But that couldn't be. She'd been careful to wait until her $270 paycheck from Walmart had hit her account. The money wasn't there? It was all she had. And without gas, she couldn't get to work. She tried not to panic, but

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Bangladesh Government Announces Plan To Reform Workers’ Rights

The news comes following the collapse of a factory building near Dhaka, which killed more than 1,100 garment workers.

Katie Rucke
By Katie Rucke

On Monday the government of Bangladesh announced it had agreed to allow the country’s garment workers to form trade unions without first getting permission from factory owners. The announcement came after an eight-story garment factory building -- which housed five different garment factories -- collapsed on April 24, killing more than 1,100

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Donald Trump Faces Lawsuit Over Chicago Condos

An 87-year-old investor says she was lured into buying condos at his namesake Chicago skyscraper.

Associated Press
By Associated Press

CHICAGO — Donald Trump is known for grilling contestants on his TV show, "Celebrity Apprentice." But he'll be the one in hot seat Tuesday as he takes the stand at a civil trial in Chicago. Several of Trump's companies are named in a lawsuit filed by an 87-year-old investor who says she was lured into buying condos at his namesake Chicago

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Gov’t Probe Obtains Wide Swath Of AP Phone Records

The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news. The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers […]

Associated Press
By Associated Press

The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news. The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and

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