Reports & Data

Banking on the Future

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

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....

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...

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...

TCS Report: The Cost of War

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

From the Ashes

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

Passing the Buck

How the Mining Industry Used Outdated Rules to Pass Environmental Cleanup Costs to Taxpayers...

Troubled Waters

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

Welfare for Waste

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

Pentagon Follies

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

Engineering Boondoggles

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