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Mega Food Corporation Cuts 1,000 Jobs

AP | DAVID MERCER and CHRISTOPHER LEONARD | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Agribusiness, Archer Daniels Midland Job Cuts, Patricia Woertz, Archer Daniels Midland Layoffs, Archer Daniels Midland, Food Industry, Video, Food News

DECATUR, Ill. — Agribusiness conglomerate Archer Daniels Midland Co. announced plans Wednesday to cut 1,000 mostly salaried jobs as it navigates...

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Fortune Global 500 Now Richer, More International, But With Same Number Of Female CEOs

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Fortune Global 500, Wells Fargo, Exxon Mobil, Fortune, Alison Cooper, Wal-Mart, Female CEOs, Xerox, JP Morgan, Colombia, Ecopetrol, Patricia Woertz, Ursula Burns, Imperial Tobacco Group, Chevron, Archer Daniels Midland, China, Citigroup, Business News

On Thursday, Fortune released its annual Global 500 list of the world's largest corporations by revenue. The U.S. tops the list with 133 corporatio...

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What Effect Will More Corporate Ads and Interrupted Programming Really Have on PBS?

Pearl Korn | Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: Pbs, United Farm Workers, Democracy Now!, David Koch, Michelle Rhee, Arturo Rodriguez, Pfizer, Bank of America, Monsanto, Cesar Chavez, Merrill Lynch, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Marian Wright Edelman, Affordable Care Act, PBS "Washington Week", Tea Party, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Brookings Institution, Bill Moyers, Latinos, Robert Reich, Merck, Jose Serrano, Exxon Mobil, Amy Goodman, British Petroleum, Juan Gonzalez, Single Payer, Center for American Progress, Students First, Npr, Bill Moyers Journal, Fcc, Jim Lehrer, John Podesta, The News Hour With Jim Lehrer, New York Times, Archer Daniels Midland, Children's Defense Fund, Media News
Pearl Korn

At PBS's recent annual gathering it was announced that the number and frequency of promotions for corporate sponsors would increase during a few noted programs as an experiment.

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How Do Wrong Economic Ideas Become Conventional Wisdom?

Peter Dreier | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: New York Times Book Review, Tea Party, Labor Unions, Fracis Fukuyama, John Boehner, Darrell Issa, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Friedrich Hayek, Rent Control, Glenn Beck, Farm Subsidies, Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland, Books News
Peter Dreier

If conservatives don't like labor unions, they are entitled to their opinions. But when they attack unions by arguing that they actually hurt working people, they don't have the facts on their side. They are crying wolf.

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Will Car Sales Ever Rebound to Meet U.S. Ethanol Targets?

Jeffrey Rubin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Monsanto, Ethanol, Auto Sales, Brazil, Archer Daniels Midland, Corn Prices, Business News
Jeffrey Rubin

While the fiscal crisis causing governments to reduce funding for green energy, one of the most expensive yet least efficient of renewable fuels, corn-based ethanol, has been given another year of generous taxpayer support in the US.

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Being Truly Green

John Warner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sawmills, Wood, Biomass, Forestry, Carbon Reduction, Biofuels, Green Jobs, Specialty Chemicals, Dow, Archer Daniels Midland, Lignin, Green Chemistry, Fortune 500, Renewable Energy, Science, Green News
John Warner

The future of a truly sustainable industry will live or die on its ability to take raw inputs that are naturally clean and use them to form the same end products that we're already used to.

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Nation's Top Polluters: We're Green Too!

Tom McNichol | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Corporate Responsibility, Greenhouse Gases, Global Warming, Greenwashing, Greenwashing Companies, Dupont, Dow Chemical, Eastman Kodak, Air Pollution, Bayer Group, Archer Daniels Midland, Green News
Tom McNichol

Don't expect any of these companies to admit they have a poor environmental record. In fact, to hear the top polluters tell it, they're as green as Al Gore.

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Top 10 Greenwashing Companies In America

24/7 Wall Street | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corporate Responsibility, Greenwashing, Exxon Mobil, Green Business, Pollution, Archer Daniels Midland, Green News

The irony of the "green" movement of US companies is that many of the firms that spend the most money and public relations effort trying to show the g...

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Is It Fair To Measure Carbon Effects Of Biofuels?

Wall Street Journal | STEPHEN POWER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Dupont, Gm, Carbon Emissions, Biofuels, Food Crisis, Biofuels Carbon Footprint, Ethanol, Archer Daniels Midland, Green News

For example, if farmers in Brazil burn and clear more rainforest to grow food because farmers in the U.S. are using their land to grow grain for fuel,...

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50 Most Powerful Women

Fortune | Jessica Shambora and Beth Kowitt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kraft Foods, 50 Most Powerful Women, Irene Rosenfeld, Pepsi, Pat Woertz, Indra Nooyi, Archer Daniels Midland, Business News

Talk about drama! Our 11th annual list is dominated by firsts (first woman to run a major U.S. oil company), superlatives (youngest honoree ever) and ...

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