"Three months prior to the announcement that Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner Jeffery S. Merrifield would be joining the Shaw Group Inc. as Vice President of its Power Group, Mr. Merrifield vigorously championed several major policy initiatives that directly benefited his future employer," states the watchdog group Project on Governmental Oversight (POGO) in a press release.

The Lung Cancer Alliance, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit group that advocates lung cancer screening, has written the National Cancer Institute protesting that two key researchers involved in the National Lung Screening Trial, a massive, federally-funded lung cancer screening study, have a conflict of interest bec

The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) today reported on three recent instances where a single television station aired entire, pre-packaged video news releases (VNRs).