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Investigation of fatal pipeline blast
Before the National Transportation Safety Board issued its findings into the 2010 natural gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno that killed eight people, the San Francisco Chronicle had already exposed negligent management by pipeline operator Pacific Gas and Electric Co. and lax regulation by the state and federal governments that contributed to a disaster.
Tags: NTSB; National Transportation Safety Board; Pacific Gas and Electric Co.; pipeline
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Are Our Pipelines Safe?
A look at whether or not D.C.'s largest utility company, Washington Gas, neglects natural gas leaks, putting the public at risk.
Tags: Natural Gas; Utilities
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Pipeline
A specialty investigative news site by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that focuses on natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale that lies beneath Appalachia.
Tags: natural gas; pennsylvania; environmental issues; environment; pipeline; resources
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Grounds for Removal
The four-year investigation detailed the government oversight of the nation's largest statewide natural gas pipeline system. Regulators rarely gave penalties, even in cases of fatal gas explosions.
Tags: gas; natural gas; environment; pipeline; oversight
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Grounds for Removal
This investigation reveals lax government oversight of the nation's largest statewide natural gas pipeline system. It shows Texas regulators failing to conduct proper oversight and rarely penalized gas companies after fatal gas explosions.
Tags: gas; pipeline; gas company; public safety; oversight
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Puppy Pipeline
The Post tracked a puppy mill pipeline stretching from the Ozarks to South Florida, one that brought thousands of sometimes-sick puppies from mass-operations to local pet stores. At least 2,500 puppies were delivered to Palm Beach, Martin and St. Lucie counties from out-of-states breeders in an 11-month period. Roughly one in three of those came from breeders or distributors cited for problems by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees wholesale dog breeding. Citations varied from keeping animals in too-small and rusting cages with exposed nails or wires, to caked feces, to infestations of roaches and other insects that covered the walls and ceilings of kennels. In dozens of cases, kennel owners averted USDA inspection entirely.
Tags: puppy mill; puppies; USDA; dog breeder; breeding; Department of Agriculture; animal mistreatment
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The Buried and the Dead
This series raises questions about Texas' oversight of the gas pipeline industry. The reporters found that state regulators often ignore safety violations because of unethical relationships with the companies involved. Despite several recent fatal pipeline accidents, and federal and industry warnings, conditions in the state have not improved.
Tags: gas; safety; state government; utilities; Texas Railroad Commission
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The Child Porn Pipeline
Russia and the United states are two major players in child pornography. Russia produces the pornography and the U.S. is able to post images online.
Tags: child porn; child abuse; children; pornography; Internet; online; cybercrime; child exploitation; courts; federal court; state court
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Toxic Pipeline
"Before China was implicated in the Panama poisoning, Bogdanich began investigating the incident because of similarities to another poisoning ten years earlier in Haiti," where a Chinese company was involved." Reporters at The New York Times traced the deaths from a cough syrup back to China. In the process, they exposed a frightening lack of oversight on imported products. When the FDA learned of the Times' story, it immediately halted all imports of Chinese glycerin. And more than 30 countries recalled Chinese made toothpaste containing anti-freeze.
Tags: poison; China; Panama; Haiti; FDA; imports; toxic chemicals; Investigative Reporting Pulitzer winner;
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Pipeline to Peril
The story exposed how the US government finances and benefits from practices it also condemns, namely human trafficking, and how those practices feed an undocumented and illicit pipeline of cheap labor to America's privatized military-support operations in Iraq.
Tags: human trafficking; War on Terrorism; War in Iraq; Halliburton; FOIA; undocumented workers