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A Look at Drill Waste Pits and Groundwater by Melissa Troutman, Laurel Dammann, and Joshua Pribanic “It was 2007, and my water well was fine. I mean, I didn’t have any problem with it. I was cooking, drinking, [...]
Triple Divide: The Judys
Dear Governor Cuomo: Sincerely, John Medeski
Sincerely, John By Laurel Dammann, Melissa Troutman, & Joshua Pribanic for Public Herald Listen to Podcast: John Medeski Interview “Artists Against Fracking” Summer 1969, half a million people gathered on a dairy farm in upstate New York [...]
Big American Land Grab: the Consequences of an Oil and Natural Gas Boom
Special Report: The casualties of Chesapeake’s “land grab” across America By Brian Grow, Joshua Schneyer and Anna Driver for Reuters (Reuters) – Ranjana Bhandari and her husband knew the natural gas beneath their ranch-style home in Arlington, Texas, [...]
A Dying Breed: Peruvian Fisherman Struggle in the Face of Growing Pollution
Pollution, overfishing threaten livelihood of Peruvian fishermen by Sara Shahriari and Noah Friedman-Rudovsky for The Seattle Globalist EL ALTO, Bolivia–Thousands of indigenous people live along the shores of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia and Peru and their family practices are becoming [...]
Inside the Salad Bowl: California’s Agriculture Faces the Challenges of Climate Change
Heat and Harvest – the documentary by Gabriela Quirós from QUEST Northern California with the Center for Investigative Reporting Like what you see in the supermarket produce section? Enjoy, because things may be changing there – the prices, even the mix of [...]
Wasted Land: the Pitfalls of Brownfield Restoration
EPA’s ‘Brownfields’ program coming up short Thousands of polluted properties remain despite $1.5 billion in federal help By Gwyneth Shaw, Beverly Ford, Evelyn Larrubia for The Center for Public Integrity In Oak Creek, Wis., a fence slashed with holes surrounds a barren [...]
The Wall: Freddie Mac Avoids Scrutiny of Internal Firewall
Freddie Mac Didn’t Set Out to Profit from Homeowners Trapped in High-Rate Mortgages by Cora Currier for ProPublica Mortgage giant Freddie Mac did not keep homeowners trapped in high-interest loans in order to boost profits on billions of dollars’ worth [...]
Exploited Loopholes: Lax Oil and Gas Waste Regulations
The Trillion-Gallon Loophole: Lax Rules for Drillers that Inject Pollutants Into the Earth by Abrahm Lustgarten for ProPublica On a cold, overcast afternoon in January 2003, two tanker trucks backed up to an injection well site in a pasture outside [...]
Still Mining: GAO report backs black lung rule amidst opposition
GAO report supports science behind black lung rule By Chris Hamby for The Center for Public Integrity Research supports an Obama administration plan to reduce coal miners’ exposure to the dust that causes black lung, a much-anticipated Government Accountability Office report released [...]
“Cabs for Women, by Women”: Female cab drivers navigate New Delhi
Female cab drivers break into India’s hostile male profession by Aparna Alluri · August 21, 2012 for the Seattle Globalist NEW DELHI––On a sticky afternoon in New Delhi, India, Chandni Gautam inches her cab into a narrow street where she [...]