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• California Air Resources BoardState air-quality agency that sets California’s gasoline specification and runs its low carbon fuel standard and cap-and-trade programs.
• California Department of JusticeThe state’s law department, headed by the Attorney General.
• California Energy CommissionState agency that collects fuel-market data; home of the Division of Petroleum Market Oversight.
• California Institute of TechnologyResearch university in Pasadena where Clair Patterson worked.
• Canal Bank (Louisiana)Louisiana bank formed in 1831 that, JPMorgan Chase said in 2005, accepted enslaved people as collateral.
• Canal Commercial Trust & Savings BankBank formed in 1924 by Citizens Bank and Canal Bank; it failed in 1933.
• Cardinal HealthU.S. drug wholesaler.
• CarillionU.K. construction and services company with large public contracts that went into liquidation in January 2018.
• Carlisle Indian Industrial Boarding SchoolFederal boarding school in Pennsylvania, the model for about 150 others.
• Carnegie Steel CompanyPittsburgh steelmaker led by Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick; sold to J. P. Morgan's syndicate in 1901.
• CartierLuxury jeweler; one of Richemont's jewellery houses.
• Catholic ChurchThe largest Christian church, led by the Pope.
• Cato InstituteLibertarian think tank.
• CBS NewsU.S. television news organization that produces 60 Minutes.
• Center for Effective PhilanthropyNonprofit whose president is Phil Buchanan.
• Centers for Disease Control and PreventionU.S. public health agency.
• Central Intelligence Agency 1947 –Civilian foreign intelligence agency of the United States government, established in 1947.
• Central Selling OrganisationThe De Beers sales unit that sold rough diamonds to approved buyers; renamed Diamond Trading Company in 2000.
• CeraVeSkin care brand sold by Valeant to L'Oréal in 2017.
• Chamber of Representatives of BelgiumLower house of the Belgian parliament.
• Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Dec 2015 –Philanthropic organization set up as a limited liability company, founded in December 2015 by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg.
• ChanelPrivately owned French fashion and beauty house.
• Chase Manhattan BankNew York bank formed in 1955 from the Bank of the Manhattan Company and the Chase National Bank.
• Chase National BankNew York bank named by the Pujo Committee in 1913 among the institutions run by the Morgan, Baker and Stillman group.
• Cherokee NationNative nation whose capital in 1835 was New Echota, in Georgia; its government was led by Principal Chief John Ross.
• ChevronU.S. oil company that grew from Standard Oil of California.
• Chevron Richmond refinery 1902 –Oil refinery in Richmond, California, begun in 1902; Chevron’s since 1977 under that name.
• Cheyenne River Sioux TribeTribal government in South Dakota whose chairman said the Wounded Knee medals must be revoked.
• Chicago TribuneDaily newspaper in Chicago; part of Tribune Publishing, owned by Alden.
• Chief Judicial Magistrate’s Court, BhopalTrial court in Bhopal that heard the criminal case over the gas leak and convicted seven people and a company in 2010.
• China Evergrande GroupChinese property developer; in March 2024 China’s securities regulator accused it of fraud. Its onshore unit was Hengda Real Estate.
• China Securities Regulatory CommissionChina’s securities regulator.
• CHOICEAustralian consumer group that tests products.
• Christian Dior SEHolding company of the Arnault family group; the largest shareholder of LVMH.
• Church Committee 1975–1976Senate select committee that investigated the intelligence agencies in 1975 and 1976, including CIA plots against foreign leaders and how the agencies investigated the Kennedy assassination.
• Circuit Court of the City of St. LouisMissouri trial court that heard the 2018 baby powder case.
• Citadel 1990 –Alternative investment manager founded by Ken Griffin in 1990.
• Citadel Securities 2002 –Market maker founded in 2002 by Ken Griffin and partners; a separate firm from Citadel.
• Citigroup Global MarketsSecurities arm of Citigroup; defendant in an SEC case over a 2007 fund.
• Citizens Bank (Louisiana)Louisiana bank formed in 1833 that, JPMorgan Chase said in 2005, accepted enslaved people as collateral.
• CliniqueSkin care brand listed by The Estée Lauder Companies.
• College of Medicine, University of CincinnatiMedical school in Cincinnati whose physiologist Robert Kehoe studied tetraethyl lead.
• Colorado Fuel & Iron CompanyColorado coal and steel company in which John D. Rockefeller and his son held a stock and bond interest from 1902.
• Colorado National GuardState militia of Colorado, on duty in the southern coal fields in 1913–14.
• Commission for Historical ClarificationCommission whose 1999 report, Memory of Silence, counted the dead and disappeared of Guatemala’s armed conflict and concluded that acts of genocide had been committed.
• Commission on Industrial RelationsFederal commission created in 1912 that held hearings on labor conditions, the Colorado strike and the large foundations.
• Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan 2008–2011Independent, bipartisan commission created by Congress in 2008 to examine contracting, waste, fraud and abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan.
• Committee for the Reelection of the President 1971–1972Campaign organization of President Nixon in 1972.
• Committee of Union and ProgressOttoman political party, also called the Young Turks; its leaders ran the government from 1913.
• Commodity Futures Trading CommissionU.S. agency that oversees futures and derivatives markets.
• Common CauseCitizens’ organization that campaigns on government ethics and campaign finance.
• Communist InternationalThe Moscow-led association of Communist parties, 1919 to 1943.
• Communist Party of ChinaRuling party of the People's Republic of China.
• Communist Party of the Soviet Union 8 Mar 1918 – 1991The ruling party of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union: the Bolsheviks under a new name, from March 1918 to 1991.
• Compagnie Financière RupertHolding company that owns all the unlisted B shares of Richemont.
• Congo Free State 1885 – 15 Nov 1908State in Central Africa from 1885 to 1908, ruled by Leopold II as its sovereign, apart from Belgium; Belgium took it over on 15 November 1908.
• Congo Reform Association Apr 1904Campaign formed in Britain in April 1904 to press for reform of the Congo Free State.
• Congressional Research ServiceResearch arm of the U.S. Congress.
• Connecticut ColonyEnglish colony on the Connecticut River, which went to war with the Pequot in 1637.
• ConocoPhillipsU.S. oil and gas company formed by the merger of Phillips and Conoco in 2002.
• Continental Oil CompanyOil marketer named in the 1911 decree; ConocoPhillips lists Continental Oil among its roots.
• Coopers & LybrandOne of the Big Eight; merged with Price Waterhouse in 1998 to form PricewaterhouseCoopers.
• Costs of War ProjectResearch project at Brown University on the costs of U.S. war and militarism. It says it aims to give “the fullest possible account” of those costs.
• Council for Tobacco Research 29 Jan 1964 – 1998Research body of the cigarette makers, successor to the Tobacco Industry Research Committee; dissolved under the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement.
• Council of EuropeEuropean organisation of 46 member states.
• Countrywide FinancialU.S. mortgage lender bought by Bank of America in 2008.
• Court of King’s BenchEnglish court that heard Gregson v Gilbert on 22 May 1783.
• Creek NationNative nation whose 19th-century reservation in eastern Oklahoma was at issue in McGirt v. Oklahoma.
• Criminal District Court No. 3, Dallas CountyTexas trial court that tried Jack Ruby in 1964.
• Crown of CastileThe kingdom whose rulers, from Isabella to Philip II, claimed the lands Cortés and Pizarro took and received the royal fifth.