ext year, the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) will celebrate its 50th anniversary as one of the finest laws our Congress has ever passed.…
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For a blockbuster recent piece, the New York Times' Eric Lipton got a first look at a massive cache of private emails between prominent public university scientists and…
What happens when a private company with a long history of producing some of the most toxic chemicals on the planet and now produces our…
Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Freedom of…
The United States has been running a particularly reckless and transparent bluff on the world. ‘We must defeat ISIS’ has been the repetitive mantra bellowed…
They knew. They lied. And the planet and its people are now paying the ultimate price. It's no secret that the fossil fuel industry—the set…
Six people lay lifeless in the filthy brown water. It was 5:09 a.m. when their Toyota Land Cruiser plunged off a bridge in the West…
More than thirteen years after the U.S. intelligence community named the prevention of terrorism its number one goal, it seems to have little understanding of what drives terrorism,…
Companies are selling bonds like madmen. This year through Tuesday, investment-grade and junk-rated companies have sold $438 billion in new bonds, up 14% from the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration set a record again for censoring government files or outright denying access to them last year under the U.S.…