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Accountability reporting: in-depth reports highlighting humanity's best practices and exposing inefficient uses or straight up abuses of power and position.
Video: “Bangladeshi Workers Pay Price for West’s Cheap Clothes” Bangladesh has been a country of wiggle room for Western retailers looking to cut costs, however, the April 24 collapse of eight story Rana Plaza has turned Bangladesh into [...]
EPA adds safeguards to spotlight conflicts on scientific panels by David Heath for The Center for Public Integrity The Environmental Protection Agency announced new safeguards Friday to prevent conflicts of interest or bias from tainting its science, including [...]
The Mines That Fracking Built by Mike Ludwig for Truthout.org This story is the first installment of Truthout’s Fracking Road Trip series on the wide-reaching impacts of the fracking industry. The bluffs rise up gently from the rolling [...]
Sand Land: Fracking Industry Mining Iowa’s Iconic Sand Bluffs In New Form Of Mountaintop Removal A collaborative report by Steve Horn of DeSmogBlog and Trisha Marczak of Mint Press News Within immediate vicinity of a central battleground of the [...]
FDA Let Drugs Approved on Fraudulent Research Stay on the Market by Rob Garver and Charles Seife for ProPublica On the morning of May 3, 2010, three agents of the Food and Drug Administration descended upon the Houston [...]
Fertilizer trade group opposed stricter security rules by Jim Morris for The Center for Public Integrity Like many, the Fertilizer Institute, a trade group, has extended its condolences to the people of West, Texas, where a blast at a fertilizer plant [...]
Hellbender Salamanders: Giant Indicators of Clean Water by The Allegheny Front LISTEN TO FULL SHOW: Each summer since 2007, Eric Chapman leads a team out intoLittle Mahoning Creek in Indiana, Pa. They risk life and limb hoisting rocks the [...]
Bill would limit whistleblower activities on PA farms by Natasha Khan for Public Source Chickens crammed into wire cages next to the rotting carcasses of other chickens. The floor of a barn coated with flies. Hens with their [...]
Hydraulic Fracking in California: New Report Addresses Wastewater and Potential Water Impacts by Jayni Foley Hein for Legal Planet: The Environmental Law and Policy Blog Today, Berkeley Law released a new report on hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in California, [...]
Chart: Withering drought is still plaguing half of the US by James West for Climate Desk, a journalistic collaboration among The Atlantic, CIR, Grist, The Guardian, Mother Jones, Slate, Wired & PBS. The $50 billion drought that bedeviled the [...]