Dossier
trade groups
Coverage of trade groups in the Nexus archive.
- Lobbying push to nix Pentagon defense contractor share buyback ban heats up
Defense companies and their trade groups are lobbying Congress to oppose a requirement that the Pentagon approve stock buybacks. The push aims to prevent a law mandating Pentagon approval for such financial activities by defense contractors.
- US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret
US tech firms, including Microsoft and trade groups, successfully lobbied the EU to include a confidentiality clause in its rules, hiding datacentre emissions data. This provision, adopted verbatim from industry demands in 2024, restricts public access to green metrics, hindering environmental scrutiny.