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 The purpose of Corporate Accountability International's Hall of Shame is to expose corporate manipulation of public policy and its harmful consequences, and to pressure corporate influence-peddlers directly. In 2005, Waste Management earned its way out of Corporate Accountability International's Hall of Shame. Waste Management was inducted into the Hall of Shame in 1996 for manipulating public policy at the expense of the environment and people's health. Since its induction, Waste Management has significantly reduced its lobbying and political spending in Washington, DC, and cut back on interference with public policies. This is a victory for public health, the environment and the corporate accountability movement. Waste Management's federal lobbying force has been reduced from 34 lobbyists in 1996 to six this year, and its reported lobbying and political expenditures have been cut by fifty percent.
Through its Standards of Political Conduct for Corporations and Hall of Shame exposure, Corporate Accountability International continues to challenge irresponsible and dangerous actions by corporations like Philip Morris/Altria, Dow Chemical, Coca-Cola, ExxonMobil, Cargill, and Wal-Mart.
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Waste Management is the second corporation to be removed from the Hall of Shame, after HCA, the nation's largest hospital corporation--once known as the Wal-Mart of healthcare. We challenged health care giant Columbia/HCA (now HCA) for taking over nonprofit and community-owned hospitals, dumping patients without insurance, and using political clout to get away with these abuses. In 2000, we declared victory. Our campaign forced the self-proclaimed "Wal-Mart of health care" to make significant changes in policies and practices that had put profits ahead of patient care. Today HCA no longer threatens public health as it did in the 1990s.