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April 22, 2016
Contractors Paid Billions in Environmental Penalties
The Federal Contractor Misconduct Database reports a total of $38.7 billion paid by contractors in penalties for environmental violations.
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April 22, 2016
POGO Wins National Journalism Prize for Reporting on FDA
The Society of Professional Journalists has awarded the Project On Government Oversight a Sigma Delta Chi Award for POGO’s coverage of potentially deadly weaknesses in FDA oversight of prescription drugs.
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Topics: Government Accountability, Public Health and Science
April 22, 2016
Yet Another Toxic Leak Found at Hanford Nuclear Site
The Hanford Site, a former nuclear weapons production facility and the world’s largest environmental cleanup project, experienced another high-profile failure over the weekend, drawing our attention to continuing management and oversight problems.
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Topics: Contract Oversight
April 15, 2016
IRS Corporate Tax Recovery Suffers After Deep Budget Cuts
The government might be losing as much as $15 billion each year in unrecovered taxes as the IRS shortens the time it spends auditing large companies, according to a nonprofit that gathers and analyzes government data.
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Topics: Financial Sector
April 15, 2016
A Good American Asks for Transparency
Whistleblowers join forces with Austrian director in documentary to increase efforts to declassify Department of Defense Inspector General’s Report.
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This Land is Our Land
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) raises this important issue in our latest podcast. POGO investigator Mia Steinle talks about the woefully outdated royalty programs for the mining and drilling of natural resources on public lands.
