Reports & Multimedia

After meeting with and listening to talking points from Dow Chemical Company, the maker of the pesticide chlorpyrifos, the EPA announced it would reverse its decision to ban the chemical, which is linked to neurological developmental issues in children.

Coca-Cola quietly funded a research institute out of the University of Colorado designed to persuade people to focus on exercise, not calorie intake, for weight loss strategies.

The top lobbyist for the fossil fuel industry in the western United States secretly ran more than a dozen front groups in an attempt to undermine forward-looking policy on climate change and clean technologies.

Rather than honestly deal with its burgeoning concussion problem, the National Football League went after the reputation of the first doctor to link the sport to the degenerative brain disease he named Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy.

Five tactics business interests use to sideline science, deceive the public and buy influence at the expense of public health and safety.

In an attempt to reduce litigation costs, Georgia-Pacific launched a secret campaign to produce and publish counterfeit science designed to raise doubts about the dangers of asbestos.

Coal-fired power plants are closing in record numbers—and the trend isn’t reversing itself anytime soon.

While the decline of New Mexico’s coal industry is inevitable, the composition of resources that will replace it is not.

In the United States, a single person is authorized to make the decision to use a nuclear weapon—the president.

Today, military space capabilities are less clearly “peaceful” and are a yet greater source of contention.