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GARBAGE GIANT REMOVED FROM HALL OF SHAME Waste Management Cuts Back on Political Influence-Peddling For Immediate Release: Contacts: Boston, MA--Corporate Accountability International has removed Waste Management from its 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. "We are pleased to announce that Waste Management has earned its way out of the Hall of Shame--with changes in both policy and practice. This is a victory for public health, the environment and the corporate accountability movement," says Corporate Accountability International Executive Director Kathryn Mulvey. 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. Waste Management's Code of Conduct states, "Responsibility means we are accountable for our actions, conduct and obligations." Mulvey says Corporate Accountability International monitors corporate actions across a range of industries. According to Mulvey, it will be Waste Management's practices, not just policies, that will demonstrate its accountability for its actions on an ongoing basis. 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. 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. 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. # # # Corporate Accountability International, formerly Infact, is a membership organization that protects people by waging and winning campaigns challenging irresponsible and dangerous corporate actions around the world. For over 25 years, we've forced corporations--like Nestlé, General Electric and Philip Morris/Altria--to stop abusive actions. Corporate Accountability International, an NGO in Official Relations with the World Health Organization (WHO), played a key role in development of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. For more information visit www.stopcorporateabuse.org.
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