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Mondelez Faces Scrutiny Over Lobbying Push To Delay EU Deforestation Rules
21+ hour ago (522+ words) Mondelez International, one of the world’s largest cocoa buyers and the maker of brands including Toblerone, has intensified its lobbying efforts over the European Union’s deforestation rules, calling for changes and further delays to their implementation, according to an investigation…...
Brandon Johnson’s failing record on ethics reform
19+ hour, 58+ min ago (934+ words) Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will officially announce his re-election bid this afternoon following the Chicago Bears’ season opener. But when it comes to fighting corruption in city government, the mayor has fumbled the ball. In fact, the Johnson administration has…...
Environment: Fossil fuels, children and a changing climate | Pearls and Irritations
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (687+ words) Fossil fuel companies gain access to children through education sponsorships, Barclays eyes opportunities from El Niño, while climate change brings increasingly destructive consequences to communities from the Himalayas to islands. Fossil fuel industry pays for uncontrolled access to children Across…...
Exclusive: Oil Industry Moves to Weaken Proposed Fossil Fuel Advertising Ban in France
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (1087+ words) Fossil fuel companies and broadcasters are working to dilute proposed world-first national restrictions on fossil fuel ads due to come into effect in France at the start of next year. Fifteen companies and trade associations including oil and gas giant…...
From potato chips to silicon chips: Lobbies cover all in Brussels
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (378+ words) BRUSSELS, Sept 12 — If there is an industry for it, there will be a lobby group representing its interests in Brussels, home to the European Union’s institutions. The biggest spenders are the digital, banking and energy sectors, according to civil society…...
BOARD FINDS LOBBYISTS IN VIOLATION OF LAW FOR FAILING TO FILE 2026 2nd QUARTER ACTIVITY REPORTS AS REQUIRED BY LAW, ASSESSED FINES
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (48+ words) City of Chicago (.gov) BOARD FINDS LOBBYISTS IN VIOLATION OF LAW FOR FAILING TO FILE 2026 2nd QUARTER ACTIVITY REPORTS AS REQUIRED BY LAW, ASSESSED FINES...
Ethics committees tasked with changing public servants’ conduct
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (333+ words) Ethics committees in the Ministry of Energy and its institutions have been tasked with helping change the behaviour of public servants and strengthen accountability in the delivery of government services. Assistant Director of Administration at the Ministry of Energy, Mr…...
Fossil fuel companies rebuked for greenwashing
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (868+ words) Fossil Free South Africa has won four victories over “greenwashing” in advertising by oil, coal and gas companies, write the authors. Graphic: Lisa Nelson Fossil Free South Africa’s Fossil Ad Ban (FAB) has now gained four victories over “greenwashing” by…...
Recent Indiana Ethics Reforms May Be Too Little Too Late to save Rush
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (1582+ words) Campaign Finance Report - Watchdog Group INDIANAPOLIS — August 28, 2026 — Indiana’s attorney disciplinary machinery continues grinding through cases in 2026, issuing orders that can determine whether lawyers keep the careers they spent decades and hundreds of thousands of dollars building. The Indiana Supreme Court’s…...
When Should Corporate Lobbying Trigger EU Competition Scrutiny?
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (361+ words) Francisco Beneke is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich. He holds a PhD in law from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and an LLM from the University of California at Berkeley. In…...