Coal Company "Offers" Free Inhalers

A new website sponsored by Peabody Coal offers free inhalers to kids with asthma living within 200 miles of a coal plant. Can you say "activist spoof"?

Voter Suppression Bills Sweep Country

Newly-elected GOP legislators and governors are pushing a wave of voter-suppression bills -- just in time for the 2012 election.

Wisconsin Protests -- LIVE

Americans have come together to protest efforts to destroy collective bargaining rights for public workers. CMD is covering these historic events live.

"Organic" Sewage Sludge?

The Environmental Media Association exposes L.A. city school kids to sewage sludge by using donated Kellogg Garden Products'"soil" and "compost" made from industrial and human waste.

Headlines

May 10 2011 - 8:50am | Jennifer Page
Since Monday, February 14, CMD reporters have been on the streets providing live coverage of the historic protests in Madison, Wisconsin and related legal and political battles. We focus on the...
May 12 2011 - 1:55pm | Nikolina Lazic
As the economy continues to sputter and new unemployment claims surge to an eight-month high, Fortune Magazine reports that profits of the 500 largest U.S. corporations have surged 81 percent....
May 12 2011 - 12:24pm | Wendell Potter
Like many others, I've heard President Obama talk about his mother's insurance problems during her final months in 1995. The memory of his mother having to devote precious time and energy pleading...
May 12 2011 - 11:45am | Rebekah Wilce
According to news reports, the Charles G. Koch Foundation has bought "the right to interfere in faculty hiring at a publicly funded university." Kris Hundley of the St. Petersburg Times reports that...
May 11 2011 - 2:56pm | Rebekah Wilce
This afternoon, the People's Rights Campaign, a coalition of labor and community organizations, organized a community action on Madison's Capitol Square. Activists scrounged for their last pennies...
May 11 2011 - 11:30am | Jennifer Page
It seems wherever Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker goes, protesters seem to follow. This rule held true earlier this week in Washington D.C., when Walker used his newly burnished credentials as an...
May 10 2011 - 10:38pm | Anne Landman
After Exxon Mobil posted first-quarter 2011 profits of $10.7 billion -- $6.3 billion more than it earned last year by this time -- the company put out a defensive statement arguing that it is not to...
May 10 2011 - 3:14pm | Anne Landman
Peabody Energy, the world's largest private-sector coal company, says it is the victim of a hoax after a website, www.coalcares.org, sprang up offering free "Puff-Puff" inhalers for kids with asthma...
May 10 2011 - 12:45pm | Jennifer Page
A wave of voter suppression legislation is emerging from newly elected GOP governors and Republican legislators that would make it much more difficult for traditional Democratic constituencies to...
May 9 2011 - 3:00pm | Jill Richardson
For a non-actress surrounded by movie stars, Debbie Levin, President of the Environmental Media Association (EMA) -- an organization founded by Norman Lear -- is putting on quite a performance of her...

Take Action!

Tell Hollywood: It’s Not Green to “Greenwash” Sewage Sludge in Gardens
Some of Hollywood's "green" celebrities—Rosario Dawson and a bevy of starlets—thought they were promoting organic school gardens for inner-city kids.  But the Environmental Media Association (EMA) teamed them up with a secretive corporation whose main business is selling Los Angeles sewage sludge products! 
Stand With Elizabeth Warren!

Elizabeth Warren is warning that the big banks are trying to "stick an knife in the ribs" of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). There are several bills in Congress right now that would cripple or destroy the agency before it even opens its doors in July 2011. Hearings on these bills start in May. Tell Congress to "say no" to efforts to weaken or kill the CFPB.

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Anne Landman is CMD's Managing Editor.  She has degrees in Environmental Restoration/Waste Management Technology and Communications.
Brendan M. Fischer is a CMD law fellow and a student at the University of Wisconsin Law School (class of 2012). He is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer- El Salvador. 
Lisa Graves is CMD's Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief. She has served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice, as Chief Counsel for Nominations on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and as Deputy Chief for the U.S. Courts, among other roles.
Mary Bottari is the Director of CMD's Real Economy Project and edits BanksterUSA.  An experienced policy wonk, she previously served as a Senior Analyst for the consumer group Public Citizen in its Global Trade Watch division in DC.
Steve Horn is a CMD researcher and writer, and he is a political science major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (class of 2011).  He interned with Senator Russ Feingold in DC.
Wendell Potter is CMD's Senior Fellow on Health Care.  He previously served as head of communications for one of the nation's largest health insurers.  He has a new book, Deadly Spin, and his book tour dates are on "Where's Wendell?"