IG Report Ignores Industry Actions and Process Challenges That Threaten Transparency Initiative On June 7 and 8, the U.S. Department of the Interior was to host the twentieth meeting of a multi-stakeholder group (MSG) focused on increasing transparency in this country’s oil and mining sector through implementation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Standard. Those meetings did not happen….
The twelve Senators call on the SEC to reissue a strong anti-corruption safeguard on oil, gas, and mining companies implementing the requirements of Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act.
Senator Benjamin Cardin along with Senators Leahy, Brown, Markey, Whitehouse, Kaine, Shaheen, Menendez, Coons, Warren, Murphy, and Merkley sent a letter dated April 4, 2017 to Acting SEC Chair Michael Piwowar and SEC Commissioner Kara Stein. The Senators call on the SEC to reissue a strong anti-corruption safeguard on oil, gas, and mining companies implementing the requirements of Section 1504…
Today, President Trump has an opportunity to veto House Joint Resolution 41, which will make it easier for corrupt officials around the world to steal oil and mining money from their citizens. HJ Res 41 repeals the common-sense implementing rules for the Cardin-Lugar AntiCorruption Provision, a bipartisan law passed in 2010 that shines a light on oil and mineral money…
Download this statement as a pdf For Immediate Release: February 3, 2017 Contact: Jana Morgan, Director – jmorgan@pwypusa.org Mobile: 703-795-8542 Senate Republicans Urge SEC to Align U.S. Transparency Efforts With Existing Global Standard Transparency Coalition Responds On February 2, Senators Corker, Collins, Rubio, Isakson, Graham and Young sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alerting the agency…
With unresolved questions lingering about Russia’s interference in one of this country’s most hallowed democratic traditions, our election, it is peculiar that one of the apparent priorities of the new Congress is to hand Russian president Vladmir Putin a rather valuable gift. Only one month on the job the House has rushed to kill a regulation intended to make it…
Oil production in fragile states increases the likelihood of violent insurgencies and increases their duration and intensity, while oil revenue that could be used to reduce aid dependency and fund development often fuels corruption and weakens governments instead. Driving greater accountability and transparency is important not just as a humanitarian concern, but for the national security of the United States…
As civil society representatives from Iraq and Yemen, working to combat corruption in the oil industry, we write to express our extreme concern at the proposal to repeal the United States’ world-leading transparency law through a Congressional Review Act resolution of disapproval. Undoing this regulation could undermine the national security of both the U.S. and our own countries. Read the…
Download the full statement. See the list of responses collected by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. Open message from the Publish What You Pay global coalition (1 February 2017) To US-listed EITI-supporting companies: Anglo American, AngloGold Ashanti, ArcelorMittal, Barrick Gold, BHP Billiton, BP, Chevron, Conoco Philips, Eni, Exxon Mobil, Freeport-McMoran, Glencore, Goldcorp, Gold Fields, Hess Corporation, Hudbay, Iamgold, Kinross,…
Dear Senator Collins: We, the undersigned 154 students, alumni and professors of St. Lawrence University1 write to ask you to stand up against corruption. The bipartisan Cardin-Lugar Anti-Corruption provision is under attack in Congress. This groundbreaking law requires oil, gas and mining companies to publicly report their payments for access to natural resources in every country of operation, including the…