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Report Criticizes EPA Oversight of Injection Wells
by Naveena SadasivamFederal environment officials have failed to adequately oversee hundreds of thousands of wells used to inject toxic oil and gas drilling waste deep underground, according to a new...
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Lobbyists Bidding to Block Government Regs Set Sights on Secretive White...
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Timeline: The Tortured History of the Senate’s Torture Report
by Kara Brandeisky and Sisi WeiIt has been more than five years since the Senate began investigating the CIA’s detainee program, a period marked by White House indecisiveness, Republican opposition,...
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Drug-Addicted Docs Running Clinical Trials and More in Muckreads Weekly
by Hanqing ChenDrug-addicted doctors can run clinical trials. The drug industry hires many kinds of doctors to oversee trials — even those who are under investigation for drug abuse. Reviewing...
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Glitch Prompts Temporary Shutdown of Pharma Payment Verification System
by Charles OrnsteinThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has temporarily suspended the verification system for its soon-to-be-unveiled website listing payments to physicians from drug and...
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Top Acthar Prescribers in Medicare Have Ties to Its Maker
by Charles OrnsteinMany of Medicare's top prescribers of the expensive specialty drug H.P. Acthar Gel have financial ties to the drug's maker.Only 18 practitioners wrote 15 or more prescriptions for...
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The Obscure Drug With a Growing Medicare Tab
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Cuomo’s Office Denies Using Private Email Accounts. But it Does.
by Justin ElliottIn a previously unreported response to a public records request, the office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo claims staff do not use private email accounts for official business. Yet as we’ve...
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Podcast: What to Look for in Federal Release of Payments From Big Pharma
by Nicole Collins Bronzan .player_box { display: none; }With all the attention to the rollout of the Affordable Care Act -- and in particular, the glitchy federal health exchange website -- one...
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Pro-Troop Charity Misleads Donors While Lining Political Consultants’ Pockets
by Kim BarkerThis story was co-published with The Daily BeastIn February 2013, Move America Forward announced an ambitious fundraising goal. The charity, launched in part by one of the most prominent...
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When Freedom Summer Landed in White America’s Living Rooms
ProPublicaShare on FacebookShare on TwitterCommentDonateI Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great, Ben ShahnDispatches from Freedom SummerWhen Freedom Summer Landed in White America’s Living...
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Suspicious Prescriptions for HIV Drugs Abound in Medicare
by Charles OrnsteinThis story was co-published with the Washington Post.Medicare spent more than $30 million in 2012 on questionable HIV medication costs, the inspector general of the U.S. Department...
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Senators Push For Investigation of USA Discounters’ ‘Aggressive’ Tactics
by Paul KielFive U.S. senators have urged the Department of Defense and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to investigate allegations that "aggressive debt collection actions" are being used by...
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How Wall Street Tobacco Deals Left States With Billions in Toxic Debt
by Cezary PodkulThis story was co-published with Marketplace.In November 1998, attorneys general from across the country sealed a historic deal with the tobacco industry to pay for the health care...
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Tobacco Bonds May Be Dangerous to Your State’s Financial Health
by Cezary Podkul and Yue Qiu, ProPublicaAfter a bruising legal fight, tobacco companies agreed in 1998 to compensate 46 states, the District of Columbia and five U.S. territories for the health-related...
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Leaked Docs Show Spyware Used to Snoop on U.S. Computers
by Jeff Larson and Mike TigasSoftware created by the controversial U.K. based Gamma Group International was used to spy on computers that appear to be located in the United States, the U.K., Germany,...
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Toxic Tobacco Bonds and More in Muckreads Weekly
by Amanda ZamoraThe 1998 tobacco settlement was supposed to net state and local governments billions for smoking prevention programs. But nine states have turned their settlement money into toxic time...
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Federal Investigators Crack Down on Two Virginia Schools’ Use of Restraints
by Heather VogellFederal investigators have faulted two Virginia schools for pinning down and isolating disabled students improperly, saying the schools used the practices routinely as a "one-size...
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Podcast: Move America Forward’s Ties to Political Consulting Firms, PACs
by Minhee Cho .player_box { display: none; }Meet Move America Forward, a 501(c)(3) that calls itself the nation's "largest grassroots pro-troop organization."The charity appeals to donors to help it...
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