NewsEnvironment, Health Good News and Bad News at Hanford, America’s Most Polluted Site Washington state legislators are pushing a bill that would protect and treat Hanford workers for certain health problems. But there’s still much to do to make the nuclear cleanup safe, effective, and transparent. Joshua FrankFebruary 7, 2017
InvestigationBusiness, Environment, Politics Protect Our Children’s Brains President Trump should follow the EPA’s lead and get the pesticide chlorpyrifos out of our food. Sharon LernerThe New York TimesFebruary 3, 2017
NewsBusiness, Labor Crackdown on Bangladeshi Garment Workers Following Wildcat Strikes At least 24 garment workers and labor leaders in Bangladesh remain in police custody without bail today, more than a month after being arrested in a spontaneous wave of walkouts… Anjali KamatFebruary 3, 2017
InvestigationBusiness, Immigration, Labor Below Deck Filipinos make up nearly a third of all cruise ship workers. It’s a good job. Until it isn’t. Lizzie PresserThe California Sunday MagazineFebruary 2, 2017
InvestigationJustice, Politics Leaked Draft of Trump’s Religious Freedom Order Reveals Sweeping Plans to Legalize Discrimination If signed, the order would create wholesale exemptions for organizations who claim religious objections to same-sex marriage, abortion, and trans identity. Sarah PosnerThe NationFebruary 1, 2017
NewsEnvironment, Health EPA Under Scott Pruitt Could Cost Billions in Additional Health Care Costs As Oklahoma’s attorney general, Pruitt tried to kill an EPA pollution rule that has saved thousands of lives and many billions in health care costs. Sharon LernerJanuary 17, 2017
InvestigationEnvironment Poison Fruit Dow Chemical wants farmers to keep using a pesticide linked to autism and ADHD. Sharon LernerThe InterceptJanuary 16, 2017
InvestigationJustice, Politics Cleaning up the Parks After years of intransigence over sexual harassment at the Grand Canyon, a resignation, a termination, and Congressional hearings. Kathryn JoyceThe Investigative FundDecember 29, 2016
ImpactBusiness Students Demand Georgetown Cut Ties With Nike Students stormed the Office of the President after a monitoring agency reported persistent workers’ rights abuses at a Nike supplier’s factory in Vietnam. Maria HengeveldDecember 22, 2016
ImpactJustice, Politics Obama’s DOJ Says It One More Time: Private Prisons Aren’t Working Another audit is perhaps the final piece of official evidence countering Donald Trump’s belief in for-profit incarceration. Seth Freed WesslerDecember 21, 2016