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Publish What You Pay one-year anniversary
Interview with Isabel Munilla, director of Publish What You Pay U.S.
It has now been a year since the passage of the oil and mining transparency provision of the Dodd-Frank Act. What are the next steps to see the law enacted?
We were very happy to see that the SEC issued a proposed rule for public comment in December 2010 that included several of Publish What You Pay’s (PWYP) recommendations. The SEC is now looking over those public comments and we expect the final regulations to come out at some point …
Mountaintop mining
Overlooked and disrespected Appalachian communities fight back
The Last Mountain – Activist and West Virginia local Maria Gunnoe. Photo courtesy of Uncommon Productions.
Clara Bingham doesn’t mince words about the failure of democracy in Appalachia and the indifference to it in the United States.
“If we were blowing up the Berkshires or the Sierras or the Catskills, let me tell you, there’d be a lot of conversations going on. If mining companies were dumping 300 million gallons of coal sludge into the Hudson River, you’d be hearing a lot about it. But …
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