Energy companies continue to rake in massive profits. They use this wealth to leverage elections, write legislation, scale back regulations and escape accountability.
Peter Cervantes-Gautschi, AlterNet. October 9, 2010.
Two Wall Street-backed powerhouses are making fat profits off of the private immigration detention system, and they're flexing their muscles in Congress.
Sodas have fueled our obesity epidemic. An elegant solution -- soda taxes -- would cut our addiction, but the sugary drink industry is gearing up to make sure that can't happen.
The six biggest banks have hired at least 243 lobbyists to infiltrate and buy out the regulatory framework that's supposed to keep the financial industry in check.
Over 10 years, the industry has spent $1 million per every U.S. Senator and Representative, plus another $100 million for the White House, courts and media.
