Donald Trump’s second inaugural fund received over $19 million from fossil fuel companies, including $2 million from Chevron and $1 million donations from ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, and Occidental Petroleum. These donations came after Trump promised oil executives at a Mar-a-Lago meeting …
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On August 7, 1978, President Jimmy Carter declared a federal health emergency at Love Canal, a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York built atop a toxic waste dump. The disaster exposed how Hooker Chemical Company had knowingly sold contaminated land for housing development while concealing the …
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