The Interior Department’s critical minerals initiative and an accompanying regulatory rollback appear to be driven by the Administration and industry’s shared goal to make it easier to mine on public lands.
In a letter to conferees for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020, POGO urges preserving amendments to increase transparency and accountability at the Pentagon.
A Project On Government Oversight review of federal records found that U.S. universities reported receiving over $7 billion in foreign gifts from 2011 to 2017, much of which was from partnerships with autocratic regimes.
A new DOE directive has significantly and improperly undermined the DNFSB's access to defense nuclear facilities and personnel and restricted its ability to perform meaningful oversight of the matters that most affect public health and safety.
POGO found that Congress still fails to enforce ethics rules for fellows who function as staff but are paid by outside entities, and some fellows worked on issues directly related to the private groups writing their paychecks.
