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Energy and Environment

Report: EPA failing to manage billions in grants

Kyle Feldscher · September 17, 2015 10:32 pm

A report determined that the railroads would need as many as five years to complete the work. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Train safety technology won’t meet December deadline

Susan Ferrechio · September 16, 2015 2:45 pm

House tries to cut down on Medicaid fraud

Robert King · September 11, 2015 4:12 pm

Students cheer as they hold up signs supporting the Affordable Care Act (ACA) after the Supreme Court decided that the ACA may provide nationwide tax subsidies, Thursday June 25, 2015. (AP)

Reports find competition among Obamacare plans

Paige Winfield Cunningham · September 11, 2015 4:01 am

"If government employees simply treated taxpayer money as if it were their own, we'd save hundreds of millions in contracting costs," Ron Johnson said. (AP Photo)Â

Report exposes how federal contracting agencies ‘accept the sticker price’

Nicole Duran · August 12, 2015 5:22 pm

A person signs up for the Affordable Care Act.Â A new report said it identified weaknesses in the federal marketplace's procedures for resolving inconsistencies.Â (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Watchdog: Government failing to fully screen Obamacare applications

Robert King · August 10, 2015 2:26 pm

The Government Accountability Office announced Tuesday that the Marine Corps did not properly account for nearly $1 billion in transactions. (AP Photo)Â

Pentagon unable to account for nearly $1 billion spent

Barbara Boland · August 5, 2015 5:02 pm

"It's not my role to preempt those investigations and conclude one way or the other," said IRSÂ Commissioner John Koskinen. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

IRS back under fire on Tea Party targeting

Sarah Bedford · July 24, 2015 4:01 am

Former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner exercises her Fifth Amendment right not to speak about the IRS targeting investigation before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee during a hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building March 5, 2014 in Washington. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

IRS loopholes may allow targeting scandal to continue

Sarah Bedford · July 23, 2015 11:36 am

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, on Monday demanded an investigation by a federal watchdog on Obamacare enrollees who received advanced tax credits but didn't file their taxes.Â (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Hatch demands probe of $2.4 billion in Obamacare credits

Robert King · July 21, 2015 4:01 am

As taxpayers fill out returns leading up to Tax Day on Wednesday, they are for the first time encountering questions about the Obamacare tax. (AP Photo)Â

Where did billions in Obamacare grants go?

Robert King · July 20, 2015 9:18 pm

"Several applications were approved and then re-approved without submitting documentation to marketplace. How can this be?" asked Sen. John Thune, R-S.D. "These are really troubling results." (Getty Images file)

Republicans slam Obamacare handling of fake applications

Robert King · July 16, 2015 4:54 pm