David Wallace Lockhart BBC Scotland political correspondent PA Media Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch said the windfall tax on oil and gas companies needs to be axed while addressing a Scottish Conservatives party conference in Edinburgh Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has called for an end to the windfall tax on oil and gas companies and...
Faarea Masud & Tom Espiner BBC Business reporters Getty Images A number of water companies have been banned from paying “unfair” bonuses to senior executives under new rules, the government has announced. The measures apply to water companies that do not meet environmental and consumer standards, are not financially resilient or have been convicted of...
Some states’ departments of corrections are outsourcing to private companies their decision-making about who can and who cannot communicate with people in their prisons. These decisions cut families and loved ones off, sometimes permanently. The Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) has said it does not maintain any records of who has been blocked from...
President Donald Trump’s record as the deregulation president is nearly unparalleled. In his first 100 days in office, he has already identified hundreds of billions of dollars of potential deregulation savings in the areas of energy, education and housing. Hooray. But some of...
“This is, to us, an unprecedented opportunity,” the executive chairman of GEO Group said shortly after the election. As the Trump administration is ramping up detentions and deportations of immigrants living in the United States, it is also revising and expanding contracts with private prison facilities. Prison companies can earn millions from the federal government...
The Premier League itself does not have an official gambling partner, but Uefa announced its first formal gambling sponsor last summer. According to data from Uefa’s European Club Finance and Investment Landscape report, gambling firms are also the most common sponsors of top division clubs in Belgium, Greece, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, and Russia....
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. On January 15, a group of utility companies wrote a letter to Lee Zeldin, then president-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. “We provide the electricity for millions of homes, businesses, and institutions across the U.S., create thousands...