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Banking on the Future

Investing in Smart Water Strategies for Pennsylvania and the Nation... Read More

Road to Ruin: The 27 Most Wasteful Road Projects in America

Road to Ruin documents 27 road projects that will drain federal tax dollars, harm communities, and damage the natural environment. In total, these projects would cost federal taxpayers at least $24 billion.... Read More

Crossroads: Congress, the Corps of Engineers, and the Future of America’s Water Resources

Crossroads: Congress, the Corps of Engineers, and the Future of America’s Water Resources The nation’s largest water management agency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is at a crossroads. The Corps is poised to either... Read More

Golden Fleece: $190 Million Bridge to Nowhere

***This article first published June 12, 2003 when TCS was the first to shed light on the "Bridge to Nowhere"*** Rep. Don Young... Read More

TCS Report: The Cost of War

March 24, 2003 | National Security

War has always been expensive and the war in Iraq is no different. The United States has already spent $1 billion dollars on cruise... Read More

From the Ashes

December 31, 2000 | Natural Resources

Reducing the Harmful Effects and Rising Costs of Western Wildfires... Read More

Passing the Buck

October 01, 2000 | Natural Resources

How the Mining Industry Used Outdated Rules to Pass Environmental Cleanup Costs to Taxpayers... Read More

Troubled Waters

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is wasting billions of dollars on environmentally harmful projects, charges a new report by Taxpayers... Read More

Welfare for Waste

May 01, 1999 | Budget & Tax , Natural Resources

How Federal Taxpayers Subsidies Waste Resources and Discourage Recycling... Read More

Pentagon Follies

April 01, 1996 | National Security

How the Department of Defense Is Wasting Your Tax Dollars... Read More

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Weekly Wastebasket

Our weekly reality-check for federal spending. View All

February 15, 2013

Engineering Boondoggles

While Washington is wringing its hands about the automatic across-the-board budget cuts known as... Read More