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  1. The Global Climate Change Lobby The Global Climate Change Lobby

    Global attempts to craft a pivotal new climate treaty in Copenhagen this December are being stymied by a far-reaching, multinational backlash led by fossil fuel industries and other heavy carbon emitters, according to an ICIJ investigation based on reporting in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the European Union, India, Japan, and the United States.

  2. The Murtha Method The Murtha Method

    Following up on allegations of influence peddling involving Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, a Center for Public Integrity computer analysis reveals that three-quarters of his subcommittee’s members have been involved in similar patterns of behavior that include 16 former aides-turned lobbyists, $100 million in earmarks, and $1 million in campaign cash. Among those involved are members of Congress from Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Washington.

  3. The Transportation Lobby The Transportation Lobby

    America’s transportation policy is dysfunctional. It’s also nearly bankrupt. Now, as debate reaches a crescendo over a new $500 billion transportation bill, can the national interest trump hundreds of special interests?

  4. Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown? Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

    The top subprime lenders whose loans are largely blamed for triggering the global economic meltdown were owned or backed by giant banks now collecting billions of dollars in bailout money — including several that have paid huge fines to settle predatory lending charges. The banks that funded the subprime industry were not victims of an unforeseen financial collapse, as they have sometimes portrayed themselves, but enablers that bankrolled the type of lending threatening the financial system.

  5. The Climate Change Lobby The Climate Change Lobby

    The report provides a first-of-its-kind look at the universe of special interests shaping the climate change debate in the United States and how it has sharply expanded between 2003 — when Congress previously voted on climate change — and 2008.

  6. States of Disclosure States of Disclosure

    Following up on our two previous analyses in 1999 and 2006, the Center for Public Integrity’s latest financial disclosure rankings for state legislators found that 20 out of the 50 states received a failing grade and three of those states have no disclosure requirements at all.

  7. Tobacco Underground Tobacco Underground

    The illicit trafficking of tobacco is a multibillion-dollar business today, fueling organized crime and corruption, robbing governments of needed tax money, and spurring addiction to a deadly product. Drawn by profits rivaling those of narcotics, smugglers move cigarettes by the billion, making tobacco the world's most widely smuggled legal substance.

  8. Pentagon Travel Pentagon Travel

    When Department of Defense personnel travel, it’s not always the federal government that picks up the bill. Over a 10-year period, defense employees have taken thousands of trips paid for by outside sources, including foreign governments and private companies that conduct business with DOD, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis of Pentagon travel disclosure records.

  9. Land Use Accountability Project Land Use Accountability Project

    Sprawl is threatening America’s famed open spaces, challenging our rural culture and love of nature. Yet, expansion and development, too, are essential to the American character. This project paints a complete picture of sprawl, examining the different assessments of and responses to the phenomenon.

  10. Broken Government Broken Government

    As the Bush administration came to an end, the federal government was not functioning as it should. Just how bad was this government dysfunction? In an effort to answer that question, the Center for Public Integrity embarked on Broken Government, an examination of the worst systematic failures of the executive branch over the past eight years.

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