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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 [...]
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 [...]
Study spotlights high breast cancer risk for plastics workers By Jim Morris for The Center for Public Integrity WINDSOR, Ontario — For more than three decades, workers, most of them women, have complained of dreadful conditions in many [...]
GAO report supports science behind black lung rule By Chris Hamby for The Center for Public Integrity Research supports an Obama administration plan to reduce coal miners’ exposure to the dust that causes black lung, a much-anticipated Government Accountability Office report released [...]
On August 21st, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) moved to further analyze air pollution caused by oil and gas drilling near the Roan Plateau in Colorado. The decision was a shuffle forward for conservation groups, backed by [...]
This Land Is Their Land Bearing witness to the fallout from the exploitation of Latin America’s natural resources By Gustavo Jononovich for Nieman Reports Latin America’s abundant natural resources are a blessing and a curse. Too often, foreign [...]
Toxic Taps: Lead is still the problem By Sheila Kaplin and Corbin Hiar for Investigative Reporting Workshop This story is being co-published on Open Channel with nbcnews.com. Millions of Americans may be drinking water that is contaminated with dangerous doses [...]
The hidden costs of hamburgers by Carrie Ching, Arthur Jones and Sarah Terry-Cobo for CIR Americans love hamburgers – we each eat an average of three a week. But what are the hidden costs? It turns out that industrial beef creates about as [...]
Study finds toxins from mountaintop coal mining sites by Alice Su for iWatch News The U.S. Geological Survey has found high levels of toxic compounds in soil and water around mountaintop-removal mining sites in central Appalachia, a potentially [...]
Farmworkers plagued by pesticides, red tape by Ronnie Greene for iWatch News NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Laboring in the blackberry fields of central Arkansas, the 18-year-old Mexican immigrant suddenly turned ill. Her nose began to bleed, her skin developed [...]