A side-by-side comparison of five OCR tools using multiple kinds of documents from DocumentCloud.

Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) dismantled a vital tool for transparency when it decommissioned FOIAonline.gov, an online resource that allowed the public to make and track Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to over 20 federal agencies, and to view responsive documents. The EPA, which oversaw FOIAonline on behalf of participating agencies, claims to have fulfilled over 1.5 million requests and attracted 34,000 active registered users over the decade-plus the portal was operating. POGO and MuckRock have partnered to host a publicly available archive of nearly 34,000 documents captured before FOIAonline was shuttered.

Lakes and streams in August A. Busch Memorial Conservation Area were contaminated with uranium from refining efforts in Weldon Spring.

Everyone agrees it’s time to change the Clean Air act’s exceptional events rule, but has different solutions.

U.S. Rep. Cori Bush requested the Government Accountability Office evaluate the cleanup of the St. Louis County site contaminated by radioactive waste from the Manhattan Project. It found government costs have soared, from $177 million to $406 million in just seven years.

Across the US, local governments, lobbyists and industry have spent millions to get wildfire pollution excluded from the record. People like Robert Shobe pay the price.

MuckRock and The California Newsroom spent a year requesting and analyzing EPA data on air pollution and talking with experts about what the data means. Here’s how we did it and what it means for the more than 21 million Americans impacted by a regulatory loophole in the Clean Air Act.

First pushed through by the Republican senator and climate denier Jim Inhofe, the rule has become a “regulatory escape hatch” for states that want to meet federal air-quality standards.

Major investigation shows local governments are increasingly exploiting a loophole in the Clean Air Act, leaving more than 21 million Americans with air that’s dirtier than they realize

The head of the Justice Department’s FOIA office explains his plans for FOIA.gov’s future, including a soft launch of new FOIA software, and the agency’s plans to reduce the backlog of FOIA requests in federal agencies.