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The Efforts to Keep Industry in Check

441 stories published since 2009

Beginner’s Luck: How One Video Gambling Company Worked the Odds and Took Over a State

by Jason Grotto,

Senators Call on Highway Administration to Finalize Car Seat Test Rules

by Patricia Callahan and Daniela Porat,

Utah Representative Proposes Bill to Stop Payday Lenders From Taking Bail Money from Borrowers

by Anjali Tsui,

Do You Make, Test or Market Car Seats or Boosters?

by Patricia Callahan and Daniela Porat,

The Most Important Thing Every Parent Needs to Know About Car Seat Safety

by Daniela Porat and Patricia Callahan,

Evenflo, Maker of the “Big Kid” Booster Seat, Put Profits Over Child Safety

by Daniela Porat and Patricia Callahan,

TurboTax and Others Charged at Least 14 Million Americans for Tax Prep That Should Have Been Free, Audit Finds

by Paul Kiel and Justin Elliott,

How Corporate Lawyers Made It Harder to Punish Companies That Destroy Electronic Evidence

by Will Young,

Who’s Afraid of the IRS? Not Facebook.

by Paul Kiel,

The IRS Decided to Get Tough Against Microsoft. Microsoft Got Tougher.

by Paul Kiel,

How to File Your State and Federal Taxes for Free in 2020

by Kristen Doerer for ProPublica and Justin Elliott,

Use This Tool to Find Potential Conflicts of Interest at Public Universities. We Did.

by Haru Coryne,

Lo que necesita saber acerca de cómo funciona realmente la Sección 8

por Maya Miller,

What You Need to Know About How Section 8 Really Works

by Maya Miller,

How Wealthy Towns Keep People With Housing Vouchers Out

by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, The Connecticut Mirror,

The IRS Tried to Crack Down on Rich People Using an “Abusive” Tax Deduction. It Hasn’t Gone So Well.

by Peter Elkind,

IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete With TurboTax

by Justin Elliott and Paul Kiel,

How Oil Companies Avoided Environmental Accountability After 10.8 Million Gallons Spilled

by Joan Meiners, The Times-Picayune | The Advocate,

In “Cancer Alley,” Toxic Polluters Face Little Oversight From Environmental Regulators

by Gordon Russell, The Times-Picayune | The Advocate,

How an Environmental Regulator Became Known for Protecting Industry

by Gordon Russell, The Times-Picayune | The Advocate,

How McKinsey Makes Its Own Rules

by Ian MacDougall,

The Price of America’s Inability to Track Child Deaths from Abuse and Neglect? Sometimes, More Lives.

by Jessica Huseman, ProPublica, and Emily Palmer and Heather Schroering, special to ProPublica,

The Law Says She Should Have Been Protected From Birth. Instead, She Was Left in the Care of Her Drug-Addicted Mother, Who Killed Her.

by Emily Palmer, special to ProPublica, and Jessica Huseman, ProPublica,

How We Measured States’ Compliance With a Forgotten Federal Child Abuse Law

by Emily Palmer, special to ProPublica,

Federally Funded Health Researchers Disclose at Least $188 Million in Conflicts of Interest. Can You Trust Their Findings?

by David Armstrong and Annie Waldman,

Recreational Marijuana Becomes Legal in Illinois on Jan. 1. Here’s How Communities Across the State Are Dealing With the New Law.

by Logan Jaffe,

Health Officials in “Cancer Alley” Will Study if Living Near a Controversial Chemical Plant Causes Cancer

by Gordon Russell, The Times-Picayune | The Advocate,

Separated by Design: Why Affordable Housing Is Built in Areas With High Crime, Few Jobs and Struggling Schools

by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, The Connecticut Mirror,

YouTube Promised to Label State-Sponsored Videos But Doesn’t Always Do So

by Ava Kofman,

What Could Happen if a $9.4 Billion Chemical Plant Comes to “Cancer Alley”

by Lylla Younes,

New EPA Rules Aim to Reduce Toxic Emissions. But Many “Cancer Alley” Chemical Plants Won’t Have to Change.

by Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune | The Advocate,

Even Louisiana’s Wealthier Neighborhoods Can’t Escape Toxic Air in “Cancer Alley”

by Joan Meiners, The Times-Picayune | The Advocate,

I’ve Investigated Industrial Pollution for 35 Years. We’re Going Backwards.

by Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune | The Advocate,

Welcome to “Cancer Alley,” Where Toxic Air Is About to Get Worse

by Tristan Baurick, The Times-Picayune | The Advocate, Lylla Younes, ProPublica, and Joan Meiners, The Times-Picayune | The Advocate,

Why Louisiana’s Air Quality Is Going From Bad to Worse, in 3 Charts

by Lylla Younes,

How We Found New Chemical Plants Are Being Built in South Louisiana’s Most Polluted Areas

by Lylla Younes and Al Shaw, ProPublica, with Michael Petroni,

How a Tax Break to Help the Poor Went to NBA Owner Dan Gilbert

by Jeff Ernsthausen and Justin Elliott,

The Obscure Charges That Utility Companies Add to Your Bills

by Talia Buford,

Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free

by Justin Elliott and Paul Kiel,

Never-Before-Seen Trump Tax Documents Show Major Inconsistencies

by Heather Vogell,

Trump’s Trillion-Dollar Hit to Homeowners

by Allan Sloan,

How a Politically Powerful Family Muscled a Nonprofit Out of Some of a City’s Most Valuable Land

by Jeff Pillets and Nancy Solomon, WNYC,

IRS: Sorry, but It’s Just Easier and Cheaper to Audit the Poor

by Paul Kiel,

Thousands of Poor Patients Face Lawsuits From Nonprofit Hospitals That Trap Them in Debt

by Maya Miller and Beena Raghavendran,

Sen. Elizabeth Warren Asks Why the Justice Department Went Easy on Big Banks

by Kevin Wack, American Banker, and Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

How a Video Gambling Company Helped Bankroll Local Politicians

by Logan Jaffe,

From Truck Stops to Elections, a River of Gambling Money Is Flooding Waukegan

by Jason Grotto,

How to Close Heirs’ Property Loopholes

by Lizzie Presser,

When Fracking Companies Own the Gas Beneath Your Land

by Mayeta Clark,

A Resolution Condemning Pipeline Challengers Passed Easily. A Pipeline Lobbyist Wrote It.

by Kate Mishkin, The Charleston Gazette-Mail,