Corporate Power

"Most companies and financial institutions with the greatest ability to halt deforestation are doing little or nothing."

"Drug corporations can do this because we let them—unlike other nations that use their purchasing power to get a better deal," said David Mitchell of Patients for Affordable Drugs.

Noting similar efforts by Amazon and Facebook, they said the tech giant "should focus on complying with antitrust law rather than attempting to rig the system with these unseemly tactics."

"Companies will not simply decide to take less of a profit during a health crisis unless we make them."

"Science for outrageous profit that costs people their lives is not noble. That is why I can no longer in good conscience be part of Moderna's trials."

"Despair is not an option," the senator said. "We must stand up and fight back."