Regulatory Affairs

Watch: Gary Taubes Reveals the Sugar Industry's Secrets

Documents show how industry's leading trade group recruited scientists predisposed to give sugar a pass.

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| Wed Oct. 31, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

Document Dive: What's Inside the Sugar Industry's Filing Cabinets?

Internal papers reveal a strategy to safeguard sugar from "opportunists," "pseudoscientists," and "enemies."

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| Wed Oct. 31, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
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Big Sugar's Sweet Little Lies

How the industry kept scientists from asking: Does sugar kill?

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| Wed Oct. 31, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
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Michael Brown Should Really Just Go Away

The Katrina-era FEMA head thinks people want to hear what he thinks about Sandy.

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| Tue Oct. 30, 2012 2:07 PM PDT

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Charts: The Frackers' Well-Oiled Political Machine

How the domestic drilling frenzy fills campaign coffers and kills off accountability.

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| Mon Oct. 29, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
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Who Fracked Mitt Romney?

Meet his top energy adviser: billionaire oil tycoon Harold Hamm.

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| Mon Oct. 29, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

Kevin Drum's Guide to California's Ballot Mayhem

Zombie initiatives! Local zillionaires wreaking havoc! And the curse of ballot box budgeting.

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| Thu Oct. 25, 2012 4:30 AM PDT

Why Is the FDA Inspecting So Little Imported Seafood?

The agency tests just 2.7 percent of seafood from abroad—despite the fact that much of it is grown under grotesque conditions.

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| Mon Oct. 22, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

TSA Removes X-Ray Body Scanners From Major Airports

X-ray body scanners have been quietly replaced with safer machines.

By Michael Grabell , ProPublica

 | Fri Oct. 19, 2012 9:53 AM PDT

Conservatives Bravely Defend Kids' Right to Junky Lunch

Why the backlash against the new healthy school lunch rules is a bunch of baloney.

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| Wed Oct. 17, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

Mitt Romney Loves a Good Gun Conspiracy

The presidential candidate rolls with paranoid NRA talk while ignoring mass shooting victims.

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| Tue Oct. 2, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
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DOI's Polar Bear Scientist Investigation Ends in Confusion

A bizarre report concluding the investigation of a DOI scientist raises more questions than it answers.

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| Tue Oct. 2, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

The NRA Surge: 99 Laws Rolling Back Gun Restrictions

Kansas now allows guns inside K-12 schools—one of a barrage of looser state laws passed in the last four years.

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| Wed Sep. 26, 2012 3:01 AM PDT

More Guns, More Mass Shootings—Coincidence?

The unthinkable massacre in Connecticut adds to what is now the worst year of mass shootings in modern US history.

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| Wed Sep. 26, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

States Aren't Enforcing Their Own Oil and Gas Rules

Is the oil boom turning state governments into banana republics?

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| Tue Sep. 25, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
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"You Don't Give a Shit About Women in Virginia!"

State board gives in to conservative pressure; vote could shut down all of state's abortion clinics

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| Fri Sep. 14, 2012 1:20 PM PDT

How an 82-year-old Nun Exposed Security Lapses at Nuclear Facilities

Will the break in at the "Fort Knox of Uranium" serve as a wake-up call to regulators and the contractors they employ?

— By R. Jeffrey Smith, Center for Public Integrity

 | Fri Sep. 14, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

BP Selling Oil Fields in Gulf of Mexico Ahead of Deepwater Horizon Fines

The sale will raise $5.6 billion as BP prepares for fines that could reach up to $20 billion.

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| Mon Sep. 10, 2012 1:05 PM PDT

ALEC's Own US Senator?

GOP veteran Tommy Thompson, now running for Senate, has deep ties to the powerful group behind "Stand Your Ground" and voter ID laws.

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| Tue Sep. 4, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
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Feds Greenlight Shell to Begin Arctic Drilling Prep

The spill response barge isn't ready, but Shell can now start poking holes in the Chukchi Sea.

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| Thu Aug. 30, 2012 3:16 PM PDT