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Corrosion Threatens BP Pipelines in Alaska; Could Lead to More Spills
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Nov. 3) -- Though BP's gulf oil spill, now capped, is fading from the headlines, the company could soon be responsible for another all-too-familiar environmental catastrophe: ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative journalism outlet, has gotten its hands on an internal maintenance report on BP's Alaska pipeline system, and "at least 148 BP pipelines on Alaska's North Slope received an 'F-rank' from the company," ProPublica's Abrahm Lustgarten reports in The Washington Post. More than 80 percent of the pipe wall is corroded, which could trigger explosions and spills. A BP spokesman said the ...
Banks That Created Fake Demand During Housing Bubble Fueled the Financial Crisis
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyA ProPublica analysis published this week examines the extent of the "fake demand" created by major banks that sold lucrative mortgage-backed securities, and how the institutions fueled the economic crisis with their self-dealing. Reporters Jake Bernstein and Jesse Eisinger uncovered details on how Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, UBS and others bought their own products and "cranked up an assembly line that otherwise should have flagged." At the heart of the dealing were obscure financial products called collateralized debt obligations, or CDOs, which are essentially collections of mortgage ...
Obama Considering Immigration Moves to Bypass Congress?
By not in system - AOL News(July 30) -- The U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services is considering ways to achieve aspects of the White House plan for immigration reform -- including giving some illegals permanent-resident status -- without the approval of Congress, ProPublica reports. Congress appears unlikely to act on the politically sensitive issue this year, meaning the unresolved issue could spill into fall midterm election campaigns. ...
Obama Considering Immigration Moves to Bypass Congress?
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyThe U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services is considering ways to achieve aspects of the White House plan for immigration reform -- including giving some illegals permanent-resident status -- without the approval of Congress, ProPublica reports. Congress appears unlikely to act on the politically sensitive issue this year, meaning the unresolved issue could spill into fall midterm election campaigns. USCIS, a part of the Obama administration, outlines the ideas in a draft memo that includes the possibility of issuing green cards to tens of thousands who entered the country illegally. "In the ...
California Discovers 3,500 Nurses Have Bad Records in Other States
By David Sessions - Politics DailyCalifornia's registered nursing board has discovered that 3,500 nurses working in the state had been punished by other states, and even had their licenses revoked, while maintaining clean records in California, ProPublica reports. After a joint investigation by the non-profit ProPublica and The Los Angeles Times last year, California examined its registry of 376,000 nurses in the state, and is now preparing to take disciplinary action against 2,000 nurses. Nurses currently working in California have been sanctioned in other states for sexual abuse, neglect, rampant drug use and other criminal ...
Louisiana's Vitter Fights to Keep Formaldehyde from Being Linked to Cancer
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyFormaldehyde is listed by the Environmental Protection Agency as a "probable" rather than a "known" carcinogen, despite its being linked to leukemia and other kinds of cancer. But when the EPA moved to reclassify the chemical last year, the agency's efforts were thwarted by Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana, who has received thousands of dollars from his state's formaldehyde companies and industry lobbyists, according to an investigation published Thursday by ProPublica. Vitter put a hold on an EPA official's appointment until the agency agreed to subject formaldehyde to an outside study, ...
ProPublica Investigates Corruption and Finds It, Bless Them
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyThere are many reasons why the particular niche of journalism that goes after corruption and exposes threats to the public has trouble staying funded in the real world. There is not always an appetite in corporate America for exposing unflattering behavior, or a particular hunger among consumers for news that is discomforting, followed by spin and denials. Investigative reporting, typified by shoe leather and intrepid digging into what the record says or doesn't say, can be prolonged and expensive. For those reasons and many more, the good people at ProPublica -- an "independent, non-profit ...
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