According to a whistleblower complaint, Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern held talks and shared sensitive information prior to their merger approval. That would be illegal.
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Intuit’s Top Lobbying Firms Are Also Major DSCC Bundlers
Congress is set to receive a report on how the IRS can streamline the tax filing process after lobbyists for Intuit bundled millions for the Senate Democrats’ campaign arm.
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FCC Nominee Gigi Sohn Withdraws
Today on TAP: A vicious lobbying campaign killed her nomination. Key Senate Democrats and Biden can share the blame.
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After East Palestine, ‘Bomb Trains’?
A proposed merger between Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern would facilitate shipments of tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
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Health System Parasites: Example No. 452
Today on TAP: Middleman companies contract with insurers to find someone else to pay medical costs.
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The Lie Behind Amazon’s HQ2 Sweepstakes Becomes Clear
With the company pausing construction on its ‘second headquarters’ in Virginia, we can see the HQ2 bidding war for what it was: a mass intelligence-gathering operation.
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The Checkered Past of the Contractor Monitoring the Air in East Palestine
CTEH has been cited by lawmakers for ‘releasing findings defending the corporate interests that employ them.’
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Calling Deficit Squawks’ Bluff on Environmental Enforcement
Deregulatory zeal and government spending cuts are surefire ways to preserve corporate impunity, at the public’s peril.
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Labor’s Struggle With Anti-Monopoly
The split between two unions on the JetBlue-Spirit merger reveals the dilemma.
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The Junk Fees Biden Hasn’t Talked About
Hidden and deceptive fees are seen across consumer transactions, from rental housing to prisons.
