ProPublicaUtilities Why There’s So Much Investigative Journalism About Utility Companies propublica.org - Stephen Engelberg Power and water touch the lives of everyone. Someone has to hold the companies that deliver them to account. I have a confession to make. I love …
ProPublicaCalifornia Are California Oil Companies Complying With the Law? Even Regulators Often Don’t Know. propublica.org This oil and gas regulatory agency was given more resources to protect the public and environment. But with its “useless” record-keeping system and …
ProPublicaGeorgia Power The Coal Plant Next Door propublica.org Near America’s largest coal-fired power plant, toxins are showing up in drinking water and people have fallen ill. Thousands of pages of internal …
ProPublica A Timber Lobbyist Called Our Investigation “Completely Bogus.” We Have the Receipts to Show It’s Not. propublica.org Lobbyists for the timber industry have repeatedly attacked our investigation, which was based on extensive interviews and a review of thousands of …
ProPublica Hawaii’s Beaches Are Disappearing. New Legislation Could Help ... if It’s Enforced. propublica.org - by Sophie Cocke, Honolulu Star-Advertiser A legal loophole allowed wealthy property owners to protect their real estate at the expense of Hawaii’s coastlines. Now, the state Legislature is …
ProPublica “We Have Counties in Deep Trouble”: Oregon Lawmakers Seek to Reverse Timber Tax Cuts That Cost Communities Billions propublica.org - by Rob Davis, The Oregonian/OregonLive, and Tony Schick, Oregon Public Broadcasting For decades, corporate timber benefited from tax cuts that devastated local budgets. Lawmakers want change and have filed dozens of bills, making …
ProPublica Air Quality Regulators in “Cancer Alley” Have Fallen Dangerously Behind propublica.org - by Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune and The Advocate An audit found that the time it takes the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality to issue penalties to polluters has doubled. Some companies …
ProPublica The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine. Here’s What Happens If You Try. propublica.org - by Elizabeth Weil A climate scientist spent years trying to get people to pay attention to the disaster ahead. His wife is exhausted. His older son thinks there’s no …
ProPublica Timber Tax Cuts Cost Oregon Towns Billions. Then Polluted Water Drove Up the Price. propublica.org - by Tony Schick, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and Rob Davis, The Oregonian/OregonLive Rural communities in Oregon paid millions of dollars for clean, safe drinking water because the state didn’t protect their watersheds from …
ProPublica Hawaii Officials Promise Changes to Seawall Policies That Have Quickened Beach Destruction propublica.org - by Mindy Pennybacker and Sophie Cocke, Honolulu Star-Advertiser Seawalls erode Hawaii’s beaches, but the state has been lax about approving them and disorganized about enforcing the law. Officials now pledge …
ProPublica Officials Let Hawaii’s Waterfront Homeowners Damage Public Beaches Again and Again propublica.org - by Sophie Cocke, Honolulu Star-Advertiser Everybody knows that seawalls cause beach loss, and Hawaii law forbids building them. But Honolulu County officials have granted exemptions to 46 …
ProPublica Hawaii’s Beaches Are Disappearing propublica.org Major islands have lost nearly a quarter of their beaches in the last century. The culprit? Seawalls and other barriers erected by wealthy homeowners. …
ProPublica John Kerry, Biden’s Climate Czar, Talks About Saving the Planet propublica.org - by Abrahm Lustgarten In the months before the election, Joe Biden’s most influential voice on the issue of our age shared his views on climate migration, open borders, …
ProPublica The Big Thaw: How Russia Could Dominate a Warming World propublica.org - by Abrahm Lustgarten, photography by Sergey Ponomarev Climate change is propelling enormous human migrations as it transforms global agriculture and remakes the world order — and no country stands to …
ProPublica Federal Regulators Are Rewriting Environmental Rules So a Massive Pipeline Can Be Built propublica.org - by Ken Ward Jr. Federal regulators and West Virginia agencies are rewriting environmental rules again to pave the way for construction of a major natural gas …
ProPublica How Famous Surfers and Wealthy Homeowners Are Endangering Hawaii’s Beaches propublica.org - by Sophie Cocke, Honolulu Star-Advertiser Hawaii’s beaches are public land, which officials are obligated to protect and preserve. But a state agency has repeatedly allowed homeowners, …
ProPublica A Coal Company Owned by This Billionaire Governor Has Pledged to Stop Breaking Pollution Laws propublica.org - by Ken Ward Jr. Gov. Jim Justice's Bluestone Coal Corp. will stop violating water pollution rules, according to a settlement. The company benefited from actions by …
ProPublica A Power Company’s Quiet Land-Buying Spree Could Shield It From Coal Ash Cleanup Costs propublica.org - by Max Blau for Georgia Health News Georgia Power paid top dollar to buy land from residents living near waste sites at its power plants. Environmentalists fear it’s a tactic to …
ProPublicaFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Oceanfront Property Tied to Obama Granted Exemption From Hawaii’s Environmental Laws propublica.org - by Sophie Cocke, Honolulu Star-Advertiser Honolulu officials have granted an exception to the state’s beach protections, clearing the way for a controversial multimillion-dollar renovation of …
ProPublica Oceanfront Property Tied to Obama Granted Exemption From Hawaii’s Environmental Laws propublica.org - by Sophie Cocke, Honolulu Star-Advertiser Honolulu officials have granted an exception to the state’s beach protections, clearing the way for a controversial multimillion-dollar renovation of …
ProPublica Climate Change Will Make Parts of the U.S. Uninhabitable. Americans Are Still Moving There. propublica.org - by Lucas Waldron and Abrahm Lustgarten Instead of moving away from areas in climate crisis, Americans are flocking to them. As land in places like Phoenix, Houston and Miami becomes less …
ProPublica Permit for Controversial $9 Billion Plastics Plant in “Chemical Alley” to Be Put on Hold propublica.org - by Lylla Younes Proposed emissions from the plant would triple the levels of cancer-causing chemicals in one of the most toxic areas of the U.S., but the Army Corps …
ProPublica Despite What the Logging Industry Says, Cutting Down Trees Isn’t Stopping Catastrophic Wildfires propublica.org - by Tony Schick, OPB For decades, Oregon’s timber industry has promoted the idea that private, logged lands are less prone to wildfires. The problem? Science doesn’t …
ProPublica The EPA Refuses to Reduce Pollutants Linked to Coronavirus Deaths propublica.org - by Lisa Song and Lylla Younes Particulate matter kills people. That was true before the pandemic, and new research has tied it to coronavirus deaths. But the EPA is ignoring …
ProPublica New Maps Show How Climate Change is Making California’s “Fire Weather” Worse propublica.org On California’s fall fire days — days with high temperatures and wind speeds, as well as low humidity — all it takes is a spark from a downed power …
ProPublica California Will Keep Burning. But Housing Policy Is Making It Worse. propublica.org - by Elizabeth Weil and Mollie Simon There are ways to keep people and homes safer from wildfires. Then, there’s what California does. Monday morning, Sept. 28, California woke up sweaty, …
ProPublica It’s His Land. Now a Canadian Company Gets to Take It. propublica.org - by Lee van der Voo for ProPublica Federal regulators have given a Canadian oil company the power to seize property from Oregon landowners for a gas pipeline that will help … …
ProPublica Gov. Gavin Newsom Says California Is Cracking Down on Oil Spills. But Our Reporting Shows Many Are Still Flowing. propublica.org - by Janet Wilson, The Desert Sun After we reported oil companies are making millions from illegal spills, California’s governor defended his administration’s record on oil regulation. …
ProPublica What the Photos of Wildfires and Smoke Don’t Show You propublica.org - by Elizabeth Weil and Lisa Larson-Walker The West will need “good fire” — controlled, managed fire that balances the ecosystem — to stave off deadly, out-of-control fire. We need to know …
