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Is this U.S. coal giant funding violent union intimidation in Colombia?
BOGOTA, Colombia — Cesar Florez is often hesitant to answer his phone because there might be another death threat at the end of the line. Sometimes the threat comes in a phone call, other times in a...
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Lawmakers issue dueling Dodd-Frank reports
Lawmakers celebrated the fourth anniversary of the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, known as Dodd-Frank, with the release of dueling reports, one by Republicans and the other by...
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Federal complaint challenges Texas town's new ban on housing any border kids
Civil rights groups filed a federal complaint Tuesday challenging a Texas city’s ban on providing housing to “refugees” or foreigners such as the Central American children who’ve been turning...
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Black lung claims by 1,100 coal miners may have been wrongly denied
In an extraordinary rebuke to a doctor at one of America's top hospitals, the U.S. Department of Labor has informed about 1,100 coal miners that their claims for black lung benefits may have been...
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Lobbying activity declines among top special interests
As election season spools up and an already lethargic Congress readies for recess, federal lobbying efforts among elite special interests are sputtering, too. About three-fifths of the nation’s top 100...
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EPA: No comment on fracking air pollution
For more than a year, InsideClimate News and the Center for Public Integrity have been reporting on air pollution caused by the fracking boom in the Eagle Ford Shale of South Texas. Despite hundreds of...
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Afghans don’t like soybeans, despite a big U.S. push
Afghanistan has a rich culinary tradition, but soybeans have not been a part of it. American agricultural experts who consider soybeans a superfood find this dismaying, and so over the past four years,...
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Chattanooga asks FCC for help in spreading broadband
City officials in Chattanooga, Tenn., and Wilson, N.C., simultaneously petitioned the Federal Communications Commission Thursday to pre-empt laws in their states that ban the cities from expanding...
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Campaign shenanigans are top targets for Office of Congressional Ethics
Misusing taxpayer money? Nope.Luxuriating on special interest-funded junkets? Sorry.Accepting ethically questionable gifts? Close, but no tobacco industry-bestowed cigar.Since early 2009, nearly half...
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Center honored for making government more transparent
The Society of Professional journalists has honored the Center for Public Integrity with its 2014 Sunshine Award, which recognizes news organizations for shining a light on the inner workings of...
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Center awarded $2.9 million grant for coverage of state government
The Center for Public Integrity will expand its reporting on the influence of special interests on government with a new project that will examine the flow of money and influence in state-level...
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Message-maven culture killing compromise in Washington
Former congressional staffer Scott Lilly, now a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, testified at a hearing on Capitol Hill last week that lawmakers might be able to reach a bipartisan...
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Obama curbs nuclear security goals as bomb-building budget grows
Since the start of his presidency, Barack Obama has been clear that one of his major goals was to secure nuclear weapons and materials, and as recently as March, at the Nuclear Security Summit in...
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Koch-backed seniors group low-balling election spending?
The 60 Plus Association — a nonprofit senior citizen advocacy group funded largely by billionaire businessmen Charles and David Koch’s conservative political network — appears to have vastly...
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Unpaid tax debts surprisingly frequent among those with U.S. security clearances
Anyone who applies for a federal security clearance has some tough questions to answer. The questionnaire is 120 pages long, and among its demands is whether an applicant has any financial problems...
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U.S. loses track of weapons shipped to Afghanistan
The Pentagon has shipped hundreds of thousands of small arms to Afghanistan over the past decade for that country’s Army, while creating an elaborate system to track their whereabouts, in hopes of...
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Flurry of new legislation targets sexual assault on campus
Lawmakers in both the Senate and House of Representatives are introducing legislation aimed at combating campus sexual violence this week, building on a series of recent federal initiatives aimed at...
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Political nonprofits bungle IRS filings
High-profile nonprofits that invest millions of dollars in political campaign ads regularly omit from their tax returns information about the companies they hire, according to a Center for Public...
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Nuclear weapons lab employee fired after publishing scathing critique of the...
James E. Doyle’s ordeal with Washington began one morning in early February last year, when his supervisor stopped by his desk at Los Alamos National Laboratory and told him that senior managers wanted...
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Center for Public Integrity adds two new reporters to environment and labor team
The Center for Public Integrity’s Pulitzer Prize-winning environment and labor team is pleased to announce the hiring of two reporters.Talia Buford joined the Center on July 28.She spent three years as...
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