ethics
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New EPA Chief Andrew Wheeler faces first call for ethics probe after less than a month
A top Democrat urged the Office of Government Ethics to review meetings between Scott Pruitt’s replacement and his former clients.
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Scandals pile up for Interior Chief Ryan Zinke
Former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt resigned amid at least 18 federal investigations. Zinke has tallied up nearly a dozen.
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Whole Foods is selling you fish farmed by prisoners
According to a recent investigation by Pacific Standard, your tilapia may have come from a federal prison in Cañon City, Colo.
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How can we get power to the poor without frying the planet?
Nearly 1.3 billion people lack access to electricity, but bringing them up to a western level of consumption of fossil fuels will fry the planet. What's the ethical path forward?
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Do we have a moral obligation to stop screwing up the planet?
Barack Obama, Pope John Paul II, the Dalai Lama, and Ursula K. Le Guin walk into a bar book … No, it’s not a joke; it’s an ambitious project that aims to make a rock-solid moral case for environmental action. It started with the print book Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril […]
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What’s a benefit corporation? And why should you shop there?
Benefit corporations are a sort of magic nonprofit and for-profit hybrid of social responsibility.
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Without major capital investments, this generation of Americans will short change the next
From 1980 to 2007, total U.S. electricity consumption increased by a factor of 1.8, but total generation capacity increased by only 1.7 times. In other words, demand out-grew supply. For a while, that was fine — we had more toys than we needed, and real power prices declined for two decades as we made better […]
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And the winner is…
Where else but the Washington Post editorial page — that bastion of un-fact-checked disinformation – would you find a misleading and misguided piece attacking federal efficiency standards written by a guy who “teaches environmental ethics”?! Or is that “!?” Now I can see a libertarian writing a misleading op-ed in defense of inefficient incandescent […]
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Monsanto targets public radio to spread false biotech messages
Editor’s note: This post originally focused on NPR; but we’ve since found that the Monsanto ads run on Marketplace, produced by American Public Media, which isn’t directly affiliated with NPR. We regret the confusion. —————- Monsanto’s ad blitzFor years my alarm has been set to public radio so I can lie in bed for five […]