Carlyle Group has performed a classic corporate raid on Philadelphia Energy Solutions. Will the private equity firm also succeed in avoiding millions in state and federal taxes connected to this?

Carlyle Group has performed a classic corporate raid on Philadelphia Energy Solutions. Will the private equity firm also succeed in avoiding millions in state and federal taxes connected to this?
Some have said the Pilgrim Pipeline is dead. But it just hired three new lobbyists in New Jersey.
Wells Fargo helps prop up everything from the gun industry to private prisons and fossil fuels. Will the scandal-ridden bank ever stop profiting off of injustice?
Banks, investors, and retailers are profiting off the US gun industry. They may be good targets for organizers.
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy says he has a bold vision for the state’s environmental and energy future. But why are there so many fossil fuel ties in his transition?
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper just approved a crucial permit for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Then he hired one of the pipeline’s top lobbyists as his new Legislative Director.
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has indicated that he wants to stand up to the fossil fuel industry. But will he shut down the PennEast Pipeline?
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink wants corporations to be more socially responsible. So why is he invested in private prisons and dirty fossil fuels?
Motel 6 is collaborating with Trump’s deportation machine. The motel chain is owned by Wall Street billionaire – and Trump ally – Stephen Schwarzman.
Last month we reported on an industry-backed study on Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline released by the University of Minnesota Duluth. Now one UMD professor has resigned from the group that commissioned the study.
The groundbreaking ‘Who Rules America?’ was first published in 1967. We spoke with its author, Professor G. William Domhoff, about a half-century of power structure research.
“Modernizing Minnesota” poses as a grassroots effort to promote the Line 3 pipeline. But it’s actually just a marketing scheme staged by a Houston-based fossil fuel lobbying firm.