Avista Sued by U.S. Govt for Desecrating National Park TL;DR The Facts: The United States government is suing Avista Corporation for damaging protected land. The company’s permit for a power pole in Washington’s Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area expired on…
Corporate Accountability • Consumer Safety • Class Action Walmart Sold Apple Juice Containing Arsenic EvilCorporations.com • Case No. 5:24-cv-05189-TLB, W.D. Ark. • 23 min read TL;DR Walmart’s own Great Value brand apple juice — sold in 8 oz 6-packs and…
Redlining for Profit: Townstone Financial’s Air War On Black Chicago TL;DR The U.S. government, via the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, filed a lawsuit (Case No. 1:20-cv-04176) against Townstone Financial for illegal racial discrimination in mortgage lending between 2014 and…
Manhattan Project’s Nuclear Ghost Haunts St. Louis; Feds Say Cotter & Norfolk Southern Must Pay TL;DR The U.S. government is suing Cotter Corporation and Norfolk Southern Railway to recover over $88 million in taxpayer money spent cleaning up radioactive waste…
Colville Inc’s Years Of Pollution TL;DR For three full years, Colville, Inc. operated eight massive gasoline storage tanks in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, without the legally required pollution control equipment, releasing uncontrolled volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and hazardous air pollutants (HAPs)…
Hershey’s Sweet Deception TL;DR The Accusation: A class-action lawsuit (Case No. 1:24-cv-01868-CCC) alleges that The Hershey Company sells iconic candies like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and Hershey’s Kisses in wrappers contaminated with dangerous levels of PFAS, also known as “forever…
THE CLIMB CREDIT FILE Case No. 1:24-cv-07868 TL;DR: The Receipts Climb Credit and its parent companies allegedly engaged in “deceptive and abusive acts” by falsely marketing student loans. They created a “sham” return-on-investment (ROI) analysis to give the appearance of…
The Price of Poison THE RECEIPTS WHO: Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. & Clougherty Packing, LLC (Farmer John). WHERE: Farmer John meatpacking facility, Vernon, California. WHEN: EPA inspection on September 21, 2017. Settlement announced May 17, 2022. THE VIOLATION: Multiple breaches…
The Architecture of Exclusion TL;DR: The Fairway Files THE ACCUSED: Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation. THE CRIME: Systematically discriminating against Black communities in the Birmingham-Hoover, Alabama metropolitan area by redlining. This is a direct violation of the Fair Housing Act, the…
Chromium And Punishment TL;DR The Facts: U.S. Steel Corporation will pay a $1.5 million penalty for longstanding air pollution violations dating back to 2016 at its Edgar Thomson Works facility in Braddock, Pennsylvania. The Misconduct: The corporation poisoned the air…