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Our investigations reveal how environmental policy in the U.S. has led to the current state of the climate — and where it’ll go from here.

Ruben, 2, plays hide and seek in his front yard. He is surrounded by dirt on the ground and trash bins.
Posted inGhosts of Polluters Past

How to protect your community from the toxic lead lurking in soil

Yvette Cabrera by Yvette Cabrera April 22, 2024April 26, 2024

Lead poisoning is often treated as if it’s a problem of the past. But its harmful legacy lingers today, particularly in the soil of urban centers across the United States.  This story also appeared in Grist One in every two American children under the age of 6 tested between late 2018 and early 2020 had […]

Posted inToxic Labor

They clean up after natural disasters. Now they’re getting sick.

Avatar photoNour SaudiRoxana Aguirre by María Inés Zamudio, Nour Saudi and Roxana Aguirre April 19, 2024
Posted inToxic Labor

Transcript: Toxic labor

by The Center for Public Integrity April 19, 2024
A sign for General Petroleum Ave., angled oddly, is in the foreground of a photo of the sun rising above small homes.
Posted inEnvironmental Justice, Denied

The decades-long fight in a community treated as a dumping ground

Yvette Cabrera by Yvette Cabrera January 19, 2024
A protester holds up a hand-lettered sign, white on black posterboard: "STOP! ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM." A number of other people are marching alongside them.
Posted inEnvironmental Justice, Denied

Environmental impact targeted in new push against ‘Cop City’

Avatar photo by Chauncey Alcorn November 15, 2023November 15, 2023
A plume of emissions that look like smoke rolls across a dark sky against the lights of the Oxbow Calcining plant. Train tracks and a railroad crossing sign are in the foreground.
Posted inEnvironmental Justice, Denied

Another state refuses to cooperate with EPA on environmental justice

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins October 27, 2023October 27, 2023
Several black and white silos (one labeled AJAX) line an industrial park that is behind a fence.
Posted inEnvironmental Justice, Denied

EPA promised to address environmental racism. Then states pushed back.

Yvette CabreraAvatar photoGrey Moran is looking into the camera in a black and white photo, wearing glasses and a closed-mouth smile. by Yvette Cabrera, Jamie Smith Hopkins and Grey Moran October 25, 2023October 25, 2023
A sign, pitched in the grass, says Environmental Justice. No Asphalt Plant in our Neighborhood.
Posted inEnvironmental Justice, Denied

Facing environmental discrimination? Read this before complaining to EPA

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins October 25, 2023October 25, 2023
Several black and white silos (one labeled AJAX) line an industrial park that is behind a fence.
Posted inEnvironmental Justice, Denied

Why you should report on environmental justice — and how to get started

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins October 25, 2023October 25, 2023
Posted inToxic Labor

Reporting on workers who rebuild after natural disasters

Avatar photo by María Inés Zamudio October 6, 2023
A view of cranes and construction machinery next to the Sanibel Causeway, which is being repaired.
Posted inToxic Labor

Florida’s anti-immigration law targets disaster relief workers

Avatar photo by María Inés Zamudio September 29, 2023
A demolition service sign is planted in the sand in front of a damaged building.
Posted inToxic Labor

Birth of an OSHA policy

by Janelle Retka September 29, 2023
Disaster restoration worker Jenny, dressed in a black shirt and jeans, and her sister Abigail, dressed in an orange shirt and black pants, can be seen through a teal doorway, painting a vacant apartment at the Mayfair Apartment Homes in New Orleans with rollers and brushes, facing away from the camera. The right side of Jenny’s body is covered in splotches of white paint.
Posted inToxic Labor

Inside an industry fueled by climate change

Avatar photo by María Inés Zamudio and Samantha McCabe September 29, 2023
A worker with a wheelbarrow walk along a hurricane cleanup site. There is shadow of another person in the foreground.
Posted inToxic Labor

Toxic Labor

Avatar photo by Janelle Retka, Samantha McCabe, Jiahui Huang and María Inés Zamudio September 28, 2023October 3, 2023
Data chart on dark background.
Posted inToxic Labor

Toxic labor, by the numbers

Avatar photoJosé Luis Castillo wears glasses and a checkered shirt and blue blazer.Jovi Dai has short brown hair and is wearing a blue shirt. He stands in front of a green lawn and trees. by María Inés Zamudio, Janelle Retka, Jiahui Huang, Samantha McCabe, José Luis Castillo and Jovi Dai September 28, 2023September 28, 2023
Un trabajador utiliza una pala para limpiar escombros, mientras que otro pasa caminando con una pala en la mano en un sitio de limpieza.
Posted inToxic Labor

Trabajo tóxico

Avatar photo by Janelle Retka, Samantha McCabe, Jiahui Huang and María Inés Zamudio September 28, 2023October 11, 2023
Pete Buttigieg stands in the foreground wearing a white buttoned-down shirt. In the background is the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge, which is in the urban area of Washington D.C.
Posted inEnvironment

Taking the highway to right wrongs of the past in urban areas

Yvette Cabrera by Yvette Cabrera September 1, 2023
Black mother holds her sleeping baby in front of a white background.
Posted inWatchdog newsletter

How guaranteed basic income can reduce infant mortality

Avatar photo by Melissa Hellmann August 4, 2023
The three people identified in the caption are standing outside a small, green ranch-style house, two holding a pack of water bottles.
Posted inEnvironment

Planning for environmental justice for all

Yvette Cabrera by Yvette Cabrera June 16, 2023
A house sits half submerged in flood water after a storm
Posted inEnvironment

Protecting people’s health in the era of global warming

Yvette Cabrera by Yvette Cabrera April 21, 2023
The view from behind 2-year-old Nalleli Garrido's as he looks out on his porch.
Posted inGhosts of Polluters Past

Lead keeps poisoning children. It doesn’t have to.

Yvette Cabrera by Yvette Cabrera March 22, 2023April 17, 2023
Sara Perl Egendorf is bent down as she shows a group of young children and one adult soil that has been collected in a rubber container.
Posted inGhosts of Polluters Past

Eight ways to take action on lead contaminating your community’s soil 

Yvette Cabrera by Yvette Cabrera March 22, 2023April 17, 2023
Posted inGhosts of Polluters Past

El plomo sigue envenenando a los niños. No tiene que ser así.

Yvette Cabrera by Yvette Cabrera March 22, 2023March 23, 2023
Sara Perl Egendorf is bent down as she shows a group of young children and one adult soil that has been collected in a rubber container.
Posted inGhosts of Polluters Past

Ocho medidas que puedes tomar cuando el plomo contamina los suelos de tu comunidad

Yvette Cabrera by Yvette Cabrera March 22, 2023March 23, 2023
Mary Acosta Rodriguez Martinez Garcia is wearing sunglasses and looking up, leaning on metal fencing and her cane, beside railroad tracks with a Pacific Surfliner train on them.
Posted inGhosts of Polluters Past

Toxic churn: The legacy of long-gone industry pollutes U.S. cities

Yvette CabreraClayton Aldern is looking into the camera with a serious expression. He's wearing an orange shirt and brown glasses. by Yvette Cabrera and Clayton Aldern March 22, 2023April 17, 2023
Santa Ana children walk along the train tracks that are littered with debris.
Posted inGhosts of Polluters Past

Ghosts of polluters past

Yvette Cabrera by Yvette Cabrera March 22, 2023April 17, 2023
A package of plastic water bottles exchanges hands between two people.
Posted inNatural Resources

Study finds disparities in states’ distribution of federal funds for water systems 

Avatar photo by María Inés Zamudio January 20, 2023January 20, 2023
A woman stands looking at her phone next to her van, the only light comes from the van and the sky behind her.
Posted inWatchdog newsletter

I set out to tell his story. Then he found out he was ill.

Yvette Cabrera by Yvette Cabrera December 2, 2022April 17, 2023
Earl Tulley walks contemplatively, looking down, against a backdrop of mesas with a dusting of snow.
Posted inEnvironment

Nuclear buildup sickened his community. Then it caught up with him.

Yvette Cabrera by Yvette Cabrera November 30, 2022April 17, 2023
Posted inNatural Resources

Drilling down on water access as drought becomes the ‘new normal’  

Yvette Cabrera by Yvette Cabrera October 28, 2022

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