Dirt Diggers Digest

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION SOURCES

From April 2002 to February 2008, the Dirt Diggers Digest was distributed in e-mail form. An index of the hundreds of information sources featured in those issues can be found here. Each source contains a link to the issue of the Digest in which it appeared. A chronological archive of the pre-blog Digest can be found here.

RECENT INFORMATION SOURCES

Here is a list of information sources that have been featured in the Dirt Diggers Digest since it began appearing in blog form:

Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit recipient list (March 4, 2010 post)

AFL-CIO Job Tracker database on plant closings and offshoring (October 8, 2010 post)

Airline Data Project statistics on employee compensation (June 12, 2008 post)

American Rights at Work Education Fund report on Deutsche Telekom labor practices (March 24, 2011 post)

Anglo American’s Track Record: Rhetoric or Reality? report (August 1, 2008 post)

Apollo Alliance/Good Jobs First report on risks of offshoring of green jobs (March 4, 2010 post)

(Astro)Turf  Wars film on fake grassroot groups (October 14, 2010 post)

Big Business, Big Responsibilities book on corporate social responsibility (August 19, 2010 post)

Bloomberg Markets magazine article on corporations and the Amazon (August 13, 2009 post)

Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship survey on social responsibility (March 1, 2008 post)

Business Ethics Network BENNY Awards (October 29, 2009 post)

Business Week 1996 investigation: “The Mob on Wall Street” (April 29, 2010 post)

Campaign to Stop Killer Coke website (July 7, 2008 post)

Carbon Disclosure Project website (July 3, 2008 post and September 3, 2008 post)

Center for Media and Democracy Full Frontal Scrutiny website on corporate front groups (March 2, 2008 post)

Center for Responsive Politics Open Secrets database on campaign contributors (April 4, 2008 post)

Center for Responsive Politics Open Secrets database on corporate lobbying (November 6, 2009 post)

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities report on state corporate tax shelters (May 8, 2008 post)

CERES report on corporate governance and climate change (February 5, 2010 post)

Citizens for Tax Justice 2008 report on petroleum industry tax breaks (May 21, 2010 post)

Citizens for Tax Justice 2010 report on petroleum industry tax breaks (July 22, 2010 post)

Citizens for Tax Justice report on Wal-Mart tax avoidance (September 23, 2010 post)

Coalition Against Bayer Dangers website (April 24, 2009 post)

Company Town book by Hardy Green on company towns in U.S.  (September 2, 2010 post)

Corporate Accountability Working Group report on corporate violations of human rights (July 17, 2008 post)

Corporate Crime Reporter newsletter (May 30, 2008 post)

Corporate Crime Reporter study of deferred prosecution agreements (May 30, 2008 post)

Corporate Governance report on social responsibility claims by companies moving their headquarters offshore (April 7, 2011 post)

Corporate Research Project  State of State Disclosure report (March 13, 2008 post)

Corporate Sunshine Working Group website (June 25, 2008 post)

Crocodyl wiki of critical company profiles (June 4, 2008 post)

Croctail database of parent companies and subsidiaries (June 11, 2009 post)

Directory of state WARN Act rapid response centers (April 7, 2008 post)

Dirt Diggers Digest Enforcement page: links to federal regulatory agency data on violations, etc. (April 22, 2010 post)

EG Justice website on Equatorial Guinea (August 12, 2010 post)

Environmental Integrity Project report on EPA enforcement (December 19, 2008 post)

Environmental Protection Agency fugitives page (December 19, 2008 post)

Environmental Working Group database on farm subsidies (May 5, 2011 post)

Essential Information report called Sold Out on deregulation and the Wall Street crisis (March 5, 2009 post)

Ethical Corporation Institute report on greenhouse gas reporting (July 3, 2008 post)

Ethisphere list of “world’s most ethical corporations” (February 5, 2010 post; May 14, 2010 post; December 17, 2010 post)

Excluded Parties List System database of debarred federal contractors (July 22, 2010 post)

Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System (FAPIIS) plan (November 13, 2009 post; February 26, 2010 post; August 12, 2010 post)

FedSpending database on federal procurement contracts and grants (June 5, 2008 post)

Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission final report (January 27, 2011 post)

Forbes list of the “biggest CEO outrages of 2009″ (December 3, 2009 post)

Forbes 2010 list of the world’s billionaires (December 17, 2010 post)

Foundation Center 990 Finder database of filings by nonprofits (August 26, 2008 post)

Friends of the Earth et al., Green Scissors 2010 report on federal budget cuts to help the environment (July 22, 2010 post)

Glassdoor database of company salary rates (June 12, 2008 post and July 15, 2010 post)

Global Exchange et al. alternative annual report on Chevron (October 1, 2010 post)

Global 100 list of “most sustainable corporations in the world” (February 5, 2010 post)

Good Jobs First’s Wal-Mart Subsidy Watch database (September 23, 2010 post)

Good Jobs First report called High Road or Low Road on green jobs (February 3, 2009 post)

Good Jobs First report called Public-Private Power Grab on economic development privatization (January 12, 2011 post)

Good Jobs First report called Skimming the Sales Tax (November 18, 2008 post)

Good Jobs First report on subsidies received by General Growth Properties (December 23, 2008 post)

Good Jobs First report on Wal-Mart tax avoidance (April 21, 2011 post)

Good Jobs First Subsidy Tracker database of economic development subsidy awards and Accountable USA state page (December 10, 2010 post)

GoodGuide database of product ratings based on environmental and other social responsibility criteria (July 24, 2009 post)

Greenpeace investigations page (December 3, 2010 post)

Greenpeace legal complaint against Dow Chemical and others for spying; Spygate summary web page (December 3, 2010 post)

Greenpeace report on corporations and the Amazon (August 13, 2009 post)

Guidestar database of Form 990 filings by non-profits (August 26, 2008 post)

Human Rights Watch report on anti-union practices of European companies operating in the United States (September 9, 2010 post and March 24, 2011 post)

Illinois Open Book database of public contracts and campaign contributions (May 19, 2008 post)

Institute for Wisconsin’s Future, Boeing Cash Cow report on Boeing subsidy deals (September 16, 2010 post)

Institutional Investor list of top money managers (October 8, 2008 post)

Internal Revenue Service rules for executive compensation disclosure for non-profits (August 26, 2008 post)

Investigative Reporters & Editors website (August 14, 2008 post)

Investor Environmental Health Network website (July 24, 2008 post and September 3, 2008 post)

Justia database of federal court cases (April 22, 2010 post)

KanView database on state procurement in Kansas (March 13, 2008 post)

Legistorm database of gifts received by members of the U.S. Congress and database of salaries received by their staffers (May 13, 2008 post)

Lehman Brothers bankruptcy examiner report (March 18, 2010 post)

LittleSis collaborative database on connections among members of the corporate and government elite (January 16, 2009 post)

Medical Innovation Prize Fund website (June 24, 2008 post)

Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board’s EMMA (Electronic Municipal Market Access) database of tax-exempt bond prospectuses (April 2, 2008 post and July 30, 2008 post)

National Association of Manufacturers disclosure filing listing member companies involved in developing lobbying strategies (May 2, 2008 post)

National Institute on Money in State Politics Follow the Money database of state campaign contributions (May 19, 2008 post; December 10, 2010 post)

New Yorker article on Koch Brothers (August 27, 2010 post)

Newsweek list of “the greenest big companies in America” (September 25, 2009 post)

Oklahoma Open Books website (March 13, 2008 post)

Open Secrets database on the revolving door (June 3, 2008 post)

Political Economy Research Institute’s Toxic 100 list of the worst corporate air polluters (March 5, 2008 post and April 15, 2008 post)

Portfolio magazine Toxic Ten worst corporate polluters (March 5, 2008 post)

Project On Government Oversight’s Federal Contractor Misconduct Database (April 23, 2008 post; November 13, 2009 post; August 12, 2010 post; October 29, 2010 post; March 31, 2011 post)

ProPublica’s Eye on the Bailout webpage (April 17, 2009 post)

ProPublica’s tally of bailed out banks (October 31, 2008 post)

Publish What You Pay website on corporate payment transparency (August 12, 2010 post)

RAND Corporation report on postwar Iraq (July 2, 2008 post)

Recalls.gov database of product recalls (August 14, 2008 post)

Recovery.gov database of federal stimulus contracts and grants, including data on contractor executive compensation  (October 15, 2009 post;  October 22, 2009 post; November 6, 2009 post; November 13, 2009 post)

Revolving Door Working Group 2005 report (June 3, 2008 post)

Sakhalin Environment Watch website on oil & gas activity in Russia (September 4, 2008 post)

Securities and Exchange Commission archive of litigation releases (September 24, 2008 post)

Securities and Exchange Commission proposal on corporate board elections (September 3, 2009 post)

SEDAR database of Canadian public company filings (July 8, 2008 post)

Senate Office of Public Records lobbying disclosure database (November 6, 2009 post)

Service Employees International Union’s Bank of America campaign website (April 29, 2009 post)

Sierra Club report on Asarco’s poor environmental record (June 9, 2010 post)

Socrates social investing database (September 25, 2009 post)

SourceWatch wiki on corporate public relations (March 2, 2008 post)

South Carolina Spending Transparency website (March 13, 2008 post)

Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction website (July 2, 2008 post)

Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) quarterly report (April 22, 2009 post)

Stanford University report on corporate governance rating services (June 26, 2008 post)

States for a Transparent and Accountable Recovery’s Accountable Recovery website (October 14, 2010 post)

Subsidy Tracker database of economic development subsidy awards (December 10, 2010 post)

Sugar Law Center on Economic and Social Justice (work on WARN Act) (April 7, 2008 post)

Sunlight Foundation’s Fortune 535 database on the net worth of members of Congress (May 13, 2008 post)

Taxpayers for Common Sense earmarks database (March 11, 2010 post)

Texas Comptroller report on subsidies to energy companies (July 22, 2010 post)

Toledo Blade series on the WARN Act (April 7, 2008 post)

Tyranny of Oil book by Antonia Juhasz (October 1, 2010 post)

Urban and Environmental Policy Institute report on Tesco’s entry into the U.S. grocery market (April 9, 2008 post)

U.S. Chamber of Commerce legal brief opposing board of director election reforms (October 1, 2010 post)

U.S. Congressional Research Service report on oil spills (May 28, 2010 post)

U.S. Department of Labor database of collective bargaining agreements (June 12, 2008 post)

U.S. Department of Labor database of LM-2 filings by labor unions (August 26, 2008 post)

U.S. Department of Labor database of labor union staffer salaries (August 26, 2008 post)

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission report on employment discrimination cases (March 19, 2008 post)

U.S. Government Accountability Office report on bonding requirements for oil and gas drilling (June 9, 2010 post)

U.S. Government Accountability Office report on the revolving door in the Defense Department (June 3, 2008 post)

U.S. Government Accountability Office report on “royalty relief” for offshore oil drilling (April 2, 2010 post and June 4, 2010 post)

U.S. House Committee on Oversight report (and documents) on CEO pay and mortgage crisis (March 6, 2008 post)

U.S. House Education and Labor Committee report on Crandall Canyon mine disaster (May 9, 2008 post)

U.S. Interior Department Inspector General reports on misconduct in the Minerals Management Service (September 12, 2008 post and April 2, 2010 post)

U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspections database (May 23, 2008 post)

U.S. PIRG Education Fund Failed Bailout report (March 5, 2009 post)

U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration enforcement page (July 30, 2010 post)

U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United case on corporate campaign expenditures (January 28, 2010 post)

U.S. Transportation Department Inspector General report (and follow-up) on outsourcing of maintenance by airlines (March 7, 2008 post)

U.S. Treasury Department blueprint on financial deregulation (March 31, 2008 post and April 1, 2008 post)

U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Stability website (February 10, 2009 post)

U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Controls list of Specially Designated Nationals (April 7, 2009 post)

US Uncut website on corporate tax dodging (February 24, 2011 post)

USASpending database on federal procurement contracts and grants (June 5, 2008 post)

Volcker Committee 2005 report on manipulation of the United Nations oil-for-food program (June 30, 2008 post)

Wal-Mart Watch report on Wal-Mart tax avoidance (September 23, 2010 post)

Washington Public Disclosure Commission database (May 19, 2008 post)

Wikileaks website (June 17, 2008 post)

Worker Rights Consortium’s Designated Supplier Program (April 21, 2008 post and August 19, 2008 post)