ACKC Investigates

In 2006, Mike from Pennsylvania was diagnosed with advanced kidney cancer that had spread to his ribs.  His doctor prescribed Sutent (sunitinib), at the time, a newly approved Pfizer drug, which cost $179 for a 50 mg pill. The dosage for Sutent is one pill daily...

This story begins in October 1996 on Wilbur Earl Tennant’s farm outside of Parkersburg, WV, a town of 30,000 people located across the Ohio River from Ohio. For decades, Earl raised beef cattle on his 300-acre spread. For the last two years, he noticed with alarm...

It was 2014. Michael Hickey wanted to sleep at night. He had uncovered a terrible truth that meant accusing the biggest employer, Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, in the small, upstate New York town of Hoosick Falls, of polluting their drinking water. His friends...