Exclusively on InsideClimate News, This Year’s Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting Most U.S. Companies Ignoring SEC Rule to Disclose Climate Risks Almost 75 percent of the nation’s publicly traded companies are ignoring a three-year-old Securities and Exchange Commission requirement that they inform investors of the risks …
The 14 worst fossil-fuel projects for the climate
The 14 worst fossil-fuel projects for the climate By David Roberts | Grist, Jan 22, 2013 In a justly famous Rolling Stone piece, Bill McKibben popularized the notion of “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math.” We have a “carbon budget,” between now and 2050, of roughly 565 gigatons of carbon dioxide. If we emit …
Safety Reviewers Raise Questions about Construction of New Nuclear Fuel Plant
Thursday, May 5, 2011 Safety Reviewers Raise Questions about Construction of New Nuclear Fuel Plant by Donna Deedy, Special to ProPublica and Michael Grabell | @michaelgrabell | Two scientists say the NRC took construction and licensing shortcuts at a MOX fuel plant being built in South Carolina. The plant, which …
5 Ways GE Plays the Tax Game
A publication of Propublica by Jeff Gerth, ProPublica, and Allan Sloan, Fortune GE is in a class by itself when it comes to paring its tax rate well below the top U.S. corporate rate of 35 percent – sometimes into the single digits – using an array of strategies that …