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By David Koenig The Associated Press DALLAS — U.S. sanctions against Russian officials are having no effect on Exxon Mobil’s operations in that country, CEO Rex Tillerson said Wednesday after the company’s annual shareholders meeting. Sanctions imposed over Russia’s annexation of Crimea have targeted the president of Russia’s largest oil company, Rosneft, but not the […]

Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson pushed back against criticism Wednesday that the company was not doing enough to reduce emissions and combat climate change. He questioned climate modeling that suggests that reducing carbon dioxide emissions would curb global warming. “There’s no one that has a viable pathway to achieve that,” he said at Exxon’s annual […]

WASHINGTON – Thailand should be liable to potential US sanctions for failing to crack down on trafficking in migrant workers, a group of human rights and labour organisations said on Friday.  In a letter to US Secretary of State John Kerry, 19 organisations, including Human Rights Watch and the American Federation of Labour, said Thailand […]

WASHINGTON, May 2 2014 (IPS) – The future of religion in U.S. politics lies not with conservatives but rather with religious progressives, social scientists here are suggesting, with a faith-based movement potentially able to provide momentum to a new movement for social justice. According to a new report from the Brookings Institute, a think tank here, the […]

By Carey L. Biron   Hasina, one of the 2,438 Rana Plaza workers that came out alive, by the remains of the factory on Sep. 25, 2013. Credit: Robert Stefanicki/IPS WASHINGTON, Apr 24 2014 (IPS) – A coalition of 134 institutional investors are calling for global corporations to institute new transparency policies throughout their supply […]