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Secret money fueling pro-Betsy DeVos ad campaigns
Only 100 U.S. senators — not the general public — will vote to approve President Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees.But that’s not stopping several conservative organizations from launching ad blitzes...
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Air Force Secretary nominee helped a major defense contractor lobby for more...
When New Mexico Rep. Heather Wilson left Congress in 2009, she went to work the same month as a paid consultant for a subsidiary of weapons-contracting giant Lockheed Martin. That company then...
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Scores of state lawmakers took trips subsidized by controversial Turkish...
Just why exactly would 151 state legislators from places like Idaho and Texas accept subsidized junkets from a Turkish opposition group now blamed by that country’s government for an attempted coup...
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The ExxonMobil near-disaster you probably haven't heard of
Editor’s note: This story was produced in collaboration with Southern California Public Radio.It’s been nearly two years since Nadia Levine fielded the frantic calls — the first one from her husband,...
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Award-winning journalist Jessica Yellin joins Center board
Award-winning television journalist Jessica Yellin, who has covered the White House and Capitol Hill and reported from around the globe, has joined the Center for Public Integrity’s board of...
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‘A little too cordial’
As California regulators oversaw an oil boom, industry representatives lobbied to ease drilling rules and shape new regulations. Four years of emails obtained by the Center for Public Integrity suggest...
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Big Oil’s grip on California
On the morning of June 21, 2011, a worker named Robert David Taylor was walking through an oil field west of Taft, California, when he noticed a plume of steam coming from the darkened earth. Taylor,...
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White House spotlight: Tracking Donald Trump
As Donald Trump’s nascent administration takes shape, Center for Public Integrity reporters are shining light in Washington, D.C.’s darkest corridors to help reveal how the new president’s actions...
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Business Roundtable softening stance on political transparency?
In 2013, the Business Roundtable— a nonprofit trade association for the nation’s leading CEOs and one of the country’s most powerful lobbying forces — made clear its stance on corporate political...
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‘This very dangerous road divides us’
BURLINGTON, New Jersey — The health hazard posed by traffic is invisible. The safety hazard is all too obvious, especially here.Nearly 8,000 U.S. public schools sit close to busy roads, and in some...
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Getting under the hood: Our methodology
We’re all exposed to unhealthy traffic pollutants, but people who spend a lot of time on or very near higher-traffic roads get more. The Center for Public Integrity and Reveal from The Center for...
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Questions and answers about schools and traffic pollution
How close is too close, and how much traffic is too much traffic?Traffic pollutants travel, but they’re higher on and close to roads. In general, studies suggest that the biggest daytime exposures are...
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Is your school near a busy road and its air pollution?
Traffic pollution spikes close to roads, a health hazard for nearby school students and anyone who spends time in those areas. Exposure increases the risk of problems, ranging from asthma attacks to...
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The invisible hazard afflicting thousands of schools
CULVER CITY, California — Interstate 405 is one of the nation’s busiest highways, with more than 300,000 vehicles speeding, crawling or outright stopped each day on the 10 lanes cutting through this...
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Lobbyists helped bankroll Donald Trump’s transition
Even as Donald Trump was kicking lobbyists off his presidential transition team, he was quietly cashing checks from them.At least a dozen registered lobbyists donated money to Trump for America, as the...
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Panama Papers investigation wins Polk Award
The Panama Papers investigation has been honored with a George Polk Award for financial journalism, the award sponsor, Long Island University, announced.The series, which exposed offshore tax havens...
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FEC’s Ann Ravel: resigning, but ‘not going away’
Ann Ravel on Sunday fulfilled her promise to quit the Federal Election Commission by May.In doing so, Ravel — who directed her resignation letter at President Donald Trump and including unsolicited...
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Want to leak to the Center for Public Integrity? Here’s how.
Journalism has changed a lot since the Center for Public Integrity first opened its doors in 1989, but our mission has not: We aim to preserve democracy by revealing abuses of power, corruption and...
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Republican Governors Association outguns its Democratic counterpart as it...
Republican governors will have reason to celebrate when they meet in Washington this week.Fundraising reports for two of the largest players in gubernatorial politics show Republicans have a large cash...
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Billionaires and corporations helped fund Donald Trump's transition
The nonprofit formed to handle President Donald Trump’s transition raised about $6.5 million in private contributions, fueled in part by corporate interests, billionaires and lobbyists, according to a...
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