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Bill Gates joined the call for the Securities and Exchange Commission to issue "strong and robust" disclosure rules for the oil and mining industries.

To gain the benefits promised in President Obama’s energy plan, the public needs more information from oil and mining companies.

Activists and international organizations are pushing back against the oil lobby's attempts to weaken rules for company transparency.


Blogger Elisabeth Rosenthal asks why information disclosure sometimes yields no action, but becomes an end in itself.

Transparency advocates are urging the oil industry to drop attacks on a new law that will reduce corruption and help citizens reap the benefits of oil and mining deals.

More than 30 business, human rights and policy groups ask U.S. Congress to preserve the flagship anticorruption law.