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T-Mobile, Sprint score one in wireless war
T-Mobile USA Inc.’s campaign to limit its rivals’ access to new radio frequencies in an upcoming government auction just got a shot in the arm.A spectrum auction held last month by the Federal...
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Name calling won't silence investigative reporting
A funny thing happened a week ago when a corporate spokesman slammed one of our excellent reporters via Twitter, labeling him “lazy and unethical.” Ed McFadden of Verizon later apologized for his “rude...
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Treasury to Comerica: Take our money, please!
The Treasury Department paid Comerica Inc. tens of millions of dollars for a government payment card that left poor and disabled Americans vulnerable to fraud and shoddy customer service, a new...
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GOP opposition to Obamacare baffles Dr. Sullivan
The Republican leadership’s intense opposition to the Affordable Care Act clearly baffles — and disappoints — one of the party’s most admired figures, former Health and Human Services Secretary Dr....
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New report ranks best, worst states for kids of all ethnicities
Black and Latino kids, along with other ethnic minorities, will comprise the majority of U.S. children in four years, but many such kids face multiple obstacles to education and job preparation in...
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States target toxic chemicals as Washington fails to act
In Vermont, the Senate has just passed a bill potentially empowering the Green Mountain State to ban chemicals it deems harmful to consumers. Some 3,000 miles away, in Washington State, environmental...
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Supreme Court opens door to flood of political cash — again
The U.S. Supreme Court today issued an opinion that is likely to further increase the flow of big money into politics.In a 5-4 decision, the high court’s conservative-leaning justices struck down...
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Air monitoring in fracking areas fails to detect spikes in toxic emissions,...
People in natural gas drilling areas who complain about nauseating odors, nosebleeds and other symptoms they fear could be caused by shale development usually get the same response from state...
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ICIJ offshore project wins IRE award, two environmental projects recognized
The Center for Public Integrity received four honors from the Investigative Reporters & Editors, IRE announced Thursday — including a top prize for Secrecy for Sale, a project by the Center’s...
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McCutcheon ruling leaves room for legislative action
For those riled by Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that lifted limits on aggregate contributions, there was something of a silver lining — the court said Congress or the Federal Election...
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How watchdog journalism makes a difference
Because of a yearlong investigation by the Center for Public Integrity, coal miners who are sick and dying with “black lung” will now have higher-quality medical reports and thus a better chance to get...
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More than a dozen states could throw out donation caps after McCutcheon ruling
States from Wyoming to Maine are surveying the fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court’s high-stakes campaign finance decision this week in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, which held that the...
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What's the point, WellPoint?
Executives at health insurance giant WellPoint are predicting they will have to implement “double-digit plus” rate increases next year, demonstrating once again just how politically tone deaf and...
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Center black lung series earns White House Correspondents’ Award
For the second straight year, the Center for Public Integrity has earned a prestigious White House Correspondents’ Association Award for stories exploring environmental and health hazards imperiling...
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Help us win a Webby Award
The Center for Public Integrity’s Primary Source blog was named today as one of the best political blogs in the world by the leading global body that honors excellence on the Internet.The No. 1 honor...
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Residents of polluted U.S. communities fear planned cuts in EPA enforcement
In New Mexico, Navajo communities worry that uranium mining could contaminate the aquifer that feeds their drinking water. In southeastern states from Alabama to Virginia, residents fear a cluster of...
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Herbicide ban on hold in Sri Lanka, as source of deadly kidney disease...
Facing political opposition and questions about its scientific evidence, Sri Lanka’s government has placed on hold its decision to ban the top-selling Monsanto herbicide glyphosate based on the weed...
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GAO report again finds black lung proposal supported by science
A longstanding federal proposal to lower coal miners’ exposure to the dust that can cause black lung disease is supported by substantial scientific evidence.That’s the conclusion government auditors...
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Why aren't more people alarmed by the falling numbers of reporters?
A provocative question was raised this week at the Skoll World Forum in Oxford: Why aren't more Americans alarmed by the tremendous drop in the numbers of reporters covering the news? America's total...
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Japan reaffirms its plan to produce plutonium
Just weeks after Japan pledged to return hundreds of pounds of plutonium to the United States for disposal, the Japanese government on April 11 formally endorsed the completion of a factory designed to...
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