CEO Pay

Feb 8, 2016

Top 400 Taxpayers See Tax Rates Rise, But There’s More to the Story

As Americans were gathering party supplies to greet the New Year, the Internal Revenue Service released their annual report of cumulative tax data reported on the 400 tax r...

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Feb 4, 2016

Chlorine Bleach Plants Needlessly Endanger 63 Million Americans

Chlorine bleach plants across the U.S. put millions of Americans in danger of a chlorine gas release, a substance so toxic it has been used as a chemical weapon. Greenpeace’s new repo...

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Jan 25, 2016

U.S. Industrial Facilities Reported Fewer Toxic Releases in 2014

The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data for 2014 is now available. The good news: total toxic releases by reporting facilities decreased by nearly six percent from 2013 levels. Howe...

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Jan 22, 2016

Methane Causes Climate Change. Here's How the President Plans to Cut Emissions by 40-45 Percent.

UPDATE (Jan. 22, 2016): Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released its proposed rule to reduce methane emissions...

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New Report: CEO Stock(ing) Stuffers

Dec 22, 2015 by Scott Klinger

10 companies shaved $182 million off their taxes, thanks to 20-year-old 'performance pay' loophole

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Report: 100 CEOs have as much in retirement assets as 41% of American families

A just-released report by the Center for Effective Government and the Institute for Policy Studies,A Tale of Two Retirements, is the first to provide detailed statistics on the staggering gap between the retirement assets of Fortune 500 CEOs and the rest of America.

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Paying CEOs More than Uncle Sam

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18, 2014—Of America’s 30 largest corporations, seven paid their CEOs more last year than they paid in federal income taxes, according to a new report by the Institute for Policy Studies and the Center for Effective Government. The report, Fleecing Uncle Sam, also looks at the 100 highest-paid CEOs in 2013, finding that 29 received more in pay than their company paid in federal income taxes – up from 25 out of the top 100 in our 2010 and 2011 surveys. These 29 companies operate 237 subsidiaries in tax havens.

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Faces of the Growing Retirement Divide: Meet the 14 CEOs Whose Company Retirement Accounts Total $1.34 Billion

Nov 3, 2014 by Scott Klinger

Fourteen of the CEOs of leading American corporations have at least $50 million in their company retirement accounts. Four of these men accumulated more than $140 million each. Together, the 14 amassed more than $1.34 billion in retirement assets. Some of these funds are in pensions, the rest in deferred compensation accounts similar to 401(k)s.

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32 Firms That Renounced America Paid CEOs $439 Million Last Year

Sep 8, 2014 by Scott Klinger

A trickle has turned into a torrent. Burger King’s announcement last week that it would buy Canadian donut darling, Tim Horton’s, and then move the merged corporation to Canada represents the 13th such deal announced this year. Most companies pursuing these “corporate inversions” have abandoned America for the express purpose of lowering their U.S. tax bills.

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Report: Obamacare Limits Subsidies for Excessive CEO Pay, Saves $72 Million

Aug 27, 2014 by Jessica Schieder

A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) calculates that the Affordable Care Act (ACA), popularly known as Obamacare, reduced taxpayer subsidies by more than $72 million last year. It did this by capping the deductions that currently reward companies for providing excessive pay to their CEOs.

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Top 400 Taxpayers See Tax Rates Rise, But There’s More to the Story

Chlorine Bleach Plants Needlessly Endanger 63 Million Americans

U.S. Industrial Facilities Reported Fewer Toxic Releases in 2014

Methane Causes Climate Change. Here's How the President Plans to Cut Emissions by 40-45 Percent.

New Report: CEO Stock(ing) Stuffers

Dec 22, 2015 by Scott Klinger

Report: 100 CEOs have as much in retirement assets as 41% of American families

Paying CEOs More than Uncle Sam

Faces of the Growing Retirement Divide: Meet the 14 CEOs Whose Company Retirement Accounts Total $1.34 Billion

Nov 3, 2014 by Scott Klinger

32 Firms That Renounced America Paid CEOs $439 Million Last Year

Sep 8, 2014 by Scott Klinger

Report: Obamacare Limits Subsidies for Excessive CEO Pay, Saves $72 Million

Aug 27, 2014 by Jessica Schieder

Living in the Shadow of Danger: Poverty, Race, and Unequal Chemical Facility Hazards

A Tale of Two Retirements: One for CEOs and One for the Rest of Us

Blowing Smoke: Chemical Companies Say “Trust Us,” But Environmental and Workplace Safety Violations Belie Their Rhetoric

Gasping for Support: Implementation of Tougher Air Quality Standards Will Require New Funds for State Agencies

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