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Austrian finance minister Hartwig Löger wants to cut the minimum collateral while he takes stand against multinational corporations having to pay their fair share of taxes (as his German counterpart does). A stringent requirement for more tax justice would be a law that multinational corporations need to disclose how much revenue they earn in which country and how much tax they pay. This requires an exchange of information between revenue/tax authorities.

2018-03-02: David Castillo Mejía is now the ninth person arrested - and the likely person behind the murder of Berta Cáceres. Castillo Mejía is the executive president of the company building the dam which Berta campaigned against (see also message from 2016-03-08; go with the mouse pointer to 'update').

Every year more than 100 environmental activists and people defending their land are assassinated (message from 2016-06-20). Demand a better protection of indigenous environmental and human rights activists from the Foreign Secretary of the EU, Federica Mogherini.

In Hawaii Syngenta has sent 19 workers on a field where Chlorpyrifos had been applied. Chlorpyrifos was developed by the Nazis as nerve gas. Make sure that Syngenta will be punished for the assault.

Flaring natural gas which accumulateds during oil production must stay forbidden in the USA. It is a huge waste to burn natural gas unused and bad for the air of the surrounding.

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is corrupt climate denier and a racist bent on destroying the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). He has said he wants to “get rid” of the agency he leads. His reckless abuse of authority is alarming even to some Congressional Republicans who generally support his agenda of turning our country over to corporate polluters.