More than 113 million euros a year spent by #digital industry on #lobbying in #Brussels: Lobbying power of #Amazon, #Google & #Facebook , #Microsoft keeps growing | @lobbyctrl_tech #Lobby #EU #DSA #GDPR #dsgvo #AIAct https://x.com/lobbyctrl_tech/status/1701182578068189559?s=12&t=M74SaRTKYt3jNvMj_XPNVg

#RegulatoryCapture: A bill that would have tripled the fines paid by oil refineries for emitting #toxicpollutants, like those released last year in Martinez stalled. Western States #Petroleum Association a powerful #corporate #fossilfuel #lobbying group has spent millions to influence #policy decisions by the #California #Legislature and state officials over the past half decade.

#BusinessAsUsual #WhatClimateEmergency #healthybottomline

https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/09/11/oil-lobby-pressure-dooms-state-bill-aimed-at-curbing-refinery-pollution/

"L'industrie numérique dépense plus de 113 millions d'euros en lobbying à Bruxelles - une augmentation considérable depuis 2021. C'est ce que montrent les chiffres actualisés de l'étude que nous avons publiée avec LobbyControl en 2021 sur le pouvoir et l'influence des entreprises numériques en matière de lobbying."

#GAFAM #lobbying #démocratie
https://corporateeurope.org/en/2023/09/lobbying-power-amazon-google-and-co-continues-grow

@threetails @douglasvb @GreenFire @fuchsiii @notjustbikes But #NHTSA #CrashTesting being done only in-class and not like #EuroNCAP with ALL traffic participants is telling...

It has nothing to do with #safety bur solely with #lobbying.
https://youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo?feature=shared&t=1770

Starmer assistant among active corporate lobbyists working for shadow cabinet.

Staffer for #Labour leader has senior Grant Thornton role while Dodds and Reynolds have taken secondees from lobbyists.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/keir-starmer-grant-thornton-weber-shandwick-corporate-lobbying/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsie_social&utm_content=Labour_lobbyists

#UKPol #Politics #UK #Lobbying #KeirStarmer #GrantThornton

@rysiek @darnell @whvholst

No, unfortunately the #DMA does *not* force gatekeeper social networks to interoperate even if smaller ones want it.

Despite #DigitalRights groups like @edri fighting for this, there was much political & #lobbying resistance, and now Article 7 DMA on mandatory #interoperability only applies to messaging services, not social networks.

So, @element and @threemaapp could ask Whatsapp and #Facebook #Messenger to interoperate, but the #Fediverse won't be affected.

There is no argument too pathetic for the #NRA. Enhanced #backgroundchecks are an attack on law abiding citizens? Really? If they're law abiding, they'll pass the background check, just as they do now. What the NRA wants is a completely open system with no #regulations or #restrictions. They want this because it maximizes #gun purchases, and at the end of the day, the NRA is primarily a #lobbying group for the gun #manufacturers. It's all about maximizing #profits.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nra-biden-admins-proposal-firearms-background-checks-attack-law-abiding-gun-owners

Support free tax filing!

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/09/tax-prep-companies-lobbying-against-free-file-face-scrutiny-from-lawmakers/

#IRS #USTaxes #Taxes #FreeFile #Lobbying

The #restaurant #industry has long coordinated efforts to suppress labor costs through the #NRA, a multimillion-dollar #lobbying machine funded both by its restaurant members and by the fees #workers pay for required food-safety classes, according to a recent New York Times report.

The group has spent its #war chest on lobbying campaigns to preserve a subminimum #wage for tipped workers — who are disproportionately young, women, and people of color, and far more likely to live in #poverty than regular minimum wage workers — and to help block state and federal sick leave proposals and minimum wage increases.

But now, restaurant executives are on edge. #Union campaigns are suddenly penetrating their industry, which employs about 10 percent of the American #workforce and has one of the lowest #unionization rates of any sector. Over the past few years, baristas have #unionized nearly 280 Starbucks stores in the face of enormous odds, and dozens of other coffee #shops and restaurants have followed suit.

“The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, every newspaper reports on every union win… when an unfair labor practice charge is filed, when there are challenges to elections,” said Felice Ekelman, a principal at Jackson Lewis, one of the oldest and most infamous union avoidance law firms in the country. “When did this become first page #news?”

“And guess who’s reading it?” replied Laura Pierson-Scheinberg, one of Ekelman’s Jackson Lewis colleagues, as the two sat across from each other on the main stage of the summit. “My kids. Literally. I have an 18-year-old, my kids are into it.”

The two lawyers were discussing a new threat for the restaurant industry: the unexpected rise of union campaigns in workplaces that, for decades, have largely been immune from such organizing efforts.

“Before, I used to say… ‘[Unionization] isn’t a problem for you in the restaurant industry,’” said Pierson-Scheinberg. But now, she warned, “Kids do not care about paying union dues. Two percent of pay, are you kidding me? Their Netflix costs more. They think it’s a hell of a deal.”

The “kids,” she added, are #organizing #workplaces which would have previously seemed unreachable.

https://www.levernews.com/fear-and-loathing-among-the-union-busters/

"allowing housebuilders to cut corners"
#MichaelGove has at times been regarded as one of the few remaining brains in the #Conservative party.
Just what level of #lobbying could persuade anyone in their right minds that subsidising #housebuilders to #pollute #rivers is worthy even of consideration, never mind being adopted.
Is it all about lining the pockets of #Tory donors while they still cling on to power?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/28/uk-rivers-at-risk-as-michael-gove-rips-up-rules-on-new-housing

#NorfolkSouthern Spent $1.9M in Washington as #Congress Weakened #Rail Safety Bill
In 6mo since #EastPalestine #derailment, #railway has activated its #lobbyists and spread money around Congress. As Norfolk went on spending spree, #Bipartisan #RailwaySafetyAct stalled in #Senate, due to a lack of sufficient #GOP support. Norfolk Southern spent $797,500 on lobbyists before the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee made its changes to the rail safety bill
https://theintercept.com/2023/08/18/norfolk-southern-rail-safety-lobby-congress/
#lobbying

Qantas in Senate enquiry into cost of living. Who flies Qantas every week or month as an essential expenditure?

The federal government blocks a foreign airline from offering more flights within Australia after #lobbying by Qantas.

Of course lobbying groups are opposing.

#Kansas #deer #lobbying

Kansas wildlife officials consider restricting deer baiting | The Wichita Eagle
https://www.kansas.com/sports/outdoors/article278625644.html

@Snoro #JoeBiden won't declare a #NationalEmergency for the #ClimateCrisis as he is beholden, along with the rest of the Legislature, to #PetroDollars in the form of #CampaignContributions and #Lobbying.

$2 million dollars in #lobbying backed up the recent #CPUC decision to let self driving cars operate as #robotaxis on the streets of San Francisco. https://sfstandard.com/2023/08/23/cruise-waymo-spent-millions-to-lobby-for-free-rein-on-san-francisco-streets/

#gunculture #guncontrol #Greed #corporategreed #Capitalist #lobbying #donors #undemocratic #fascism #Authoritarianism

https://www.rawstory.com/not-what-democracy-looks-like-tn-gop-lawmakers-order-police-to-remove-silent-protestor-from-pro-gun-hearing/

⚛️😡 #énergie #environnement #nucléaire #lobbying
La Lettre A : Le groupe de pression pronucléaire PNC France va s'appuyer sur à un proche d'Edouard Philippe pour mener son offensive pour la relance des programmes de réacteurs de quatrième génération.
Sur PNC France, voir https://reporterre.net/Des-politiques-de-tous-bords-lancent-un-appel-a-defendre-le-patrimoine-nucleaire-francais

⚛️😡 #énergie #environnement #nucléaire #lobbying
Le groupe de pression pronucléaire PNC France(*) va s'appuyer sur à un proche d'Edouard Philippe pour mener son offensive pour la relance des programmes de réacteurs de quatrième génération
(*) Voir https://reporterre.net/Des-politiques-de-tous-bords-lancent-un-appel-a-defendre-le-patrimoine-nucleaire-francais

https://youtu.be/CvTsx_9Msto?si=QyNSJjyAcGpnSFAh
La NOUVELLE CORRUPTION du POUVOIR 🇫🇷 (17août23)
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#Corruption #Lobbying #LutteDesClasses
#MacronPrésidentDesRiches

It's a breathtaking fraud: SoCal Gas, the largest gas company in America, spent millions secretly paying people to oppose California environmental regulations, then illegally stuck its customers with the bill. We Californians were forced to pay to lobby against our own survival. #socal #lobbying https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/19/cooking-the-books-with-gas/#reichman-jorgensen