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POGO’s experts push policymakers to enact commonsense reforms that tackle waste, corruption, and abuse of power; hold those who’ve violated the public trust accountable; protect our constitutional rights; and make the government work for all people.
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Defense and Health Care Industries: Rather Than Clean Up Their Act, They Attack the Act
The major trade associations for the defense and health care industries have risen up in support of the Hughes Aircraft Company -- the defendant in a pending fraud case before the Supreme Court. Hughes' appeal to the Supreme Court challenges the potency of the False Claims Ac...
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With A Wink And A Nod: How the Oil Industry and the Department of Interior Are Cheating the American Public and California School Children
With a Wink and a Nod: How the Oil Industry and the Department of Interior are Cheating the American Public and California School Children
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Wait! There Is More Money to Collect...Unpaid Oil Royalties Across the Nation
POGO's initial 2 reports revealed the federal government's failure to collect royalties from oil companies that drill on public lands in California. This report shows evidence that the federal government's failure to adequately collect oil royalties is nationwide – involving a...
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No Light At the End of This Tunnel: Boston’s Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel Project
In 1995, the Boston Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel, more commonly known as the Big Dig, ran billions over budget and years behind schedule. Sold to Congress as a $2.3 billion project to be completed in 1998, the Big Dig far exceeded all cost estimates, ringing in at a stun...
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Department of Interior Looks the Other Way: The Government’s Slick Deal for the Oil Industry
Department of Interior Looks the Other Way
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Children’s Ears & Antibiotics: Gold Mine for Pharmaceutical Companies, Land Mine for Children
This report was first released in June 1994, and was updated in August 1994 to reflect the information published in the final version of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Guidelines, "Otitis Media with Effusion in Young Children." August 1994, Revised Ed...
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Aerosols Give Big Business and Public Big Boom: Where is the Protection in the EPA?
The EPA is ignoring its own experts, as well as fire officials who are concerned about the potential dangers of explosions and/or fires caused by routine usage or storage of consumer aerosol products. Instead, the EPA is responding to pressure from the manufacturers of these p...
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Survey of Defense Contractor Signatories of the “Position Paper: Reform of the Federal Civil False Claims Act”
The Project on Government Oversight is a non-partisan, non-profit organization that, for over fourteen years, has investigated and exposed waste and fraud in government spending. Our goal is to change the way the government works by revealing examples of systemic problems and...
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The Superconducting Super Collider’s Super Excesses
Superconducting Super Collider's Super Excesses
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High Tech Weapons In Desert Storm: Hype or Reality?
It has been almost one year since the Iraqi army invaded Kuwait and prompted Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. The war and its aftermath have led to Americans' pervasive belief that success was mainly attributable to U.S. high-tech weapons.
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Cleaning Up Nuclear Waste: Why is DOE Five Years Behind and Billions Over Budget?
The Department of Energy has spent billions on cleanup efforts which failed because the agency did not fully test a key technology. The French, by contrast, are way ahead of the US. because they have not only fully tested this key technology, but have implemented the process. ...
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The Army’s M1 Tank: Has It Lived Up To Expectations?
The Project On Government Procurement has tracked the progress of the M1 tank since our founding in 1980. Because our observations on M1 tank performance have often been called, inaccurate, incomplete or out-of-date, we have released new Army M1 data to the public as it has b...