John A. Jenkins

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Forever Chemicals Lead to Bad Times for 3M

FOIAengine: ProPublica Reporter Made Dozens of FOIA Requests to EPA Before Dropping a Bombshell Minnesota-based 3M styles itself as a friendly, people-first company in the heartland of America, innovating through...

Big Money at the Table as Vapers Roll the...

FOIAengine:  Hundreds of FOIA Requests Signaled Challenge to FDA Two companies that go by the names of Triton Distribution and Vapetasia are small players in America’s fast-growing $28 billion e-cigarette...

An Anti-Biden Group Goes All In on FOIA Requests

FOIAengine:  What Does the American Accountability Foundation Want to Know – and Why? This week we’re taking a look at the more than 100 Freedom of Information Act requests recently...

Forensic FOIA: BLS “Super Users” Are a Case Study

FOIAengine:  Traders Had an Inside Track on the CPI.  Journalists Used FOIA to Expose It. Today’s story is about the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which calculates the all-important Consumer Price...

EXCLUSIVE: A J&J Heart Pump is Linked to Far...

FOIAengine:  As Deaths Mounted, J&J “Promised to Correct” – and Sought FDA Records Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) proudly calls itself “the world’s largest and most diversified healthcare products company.”...

Hype and Hope: Brain-chip Progress Evokes Investigations, Controversy

FOIAengine: Neuralink’s High Profile Makes It a Target It was a Musk Moment unlike any other:  Two weeks ago, the first human participant in Neuralink’s brain-implant trials took the stage...