The ongoing tariff war between the United States and China has driven up demand for soy produced in Brazil – and record levels of soy production are likely to have a significant environmental impact. A 580-mile railroad through the Amazon has been proposed to support increased soy production, but Indigenous communities and environmental advocates oppose it. With support from the ...
There are thousands of wells around Texas that produce low levels of gas and oil and are leased by companies operating on a shoestring. Different than the problem of non-producing “orphan” wells that have been covered extensively in the media, these low-producing wells are allowed to continue operating unless oil companies spend thousands of dollars to close them. Some ranchers ...
Sahela “Toka Win” Sangrait, who was Mnicoujou Lakota, was killed in 2024, allegedly on an Air Force base in South Dakota – but her friends and family are still fighting for justice. As part of South Dakota Searchlight and ICT’s ongoing series on missing and murdered Indigenous people, which is supported by the Fund, Amelia Schafer probed Sangrait’s case. Friends ...
With support from the Fund, Edward Donnelly spent four months investigating efforts to build some of the world’s largest data centers in the borough of Archbald, Pennsylvania – and found that local officials let developers help rewrite zoning regulations in order to build the massive centers, outside the view of local residents. Spurred by the revelations in Donnelly’s reporting, local ...
For a story that aired nationally on NPR, Julia Haney and Elizabeth Santos investigated emotional abuse in college sports. With support from the Fund, they reported that researchers have found that athletes experience emotional abuse – a toxic pattern of verbal attacks, manipulation and/or controlling actions – more than any other form of harm. Yet, while schools and sports organizations ...
With a follow-up grant from the Fund after his initial investigation last year, Luke Mullins reported for Washingtonian Magazine that conditions inside the Psychiatric Institute of Washington are even worse than previously known. Mullins spoke to a former employee at the facility who was sexually assaulted on the job by a patient, for which the federal Occupational Safety and Health ...
For more than a year, reporters at New York Focus and Hell Gate, with support from the Fund, have been reporting on a flood of sexual-abuse lawsuits filed by people held in New York state prisons. The two outlets have filed public-records requests for the personnel records of state prison staff named in the lawsuits and for records of any ...
Grantees investigate impact of contaminated water from California prison on residents of nearby town
Freelance journalist Emily Nonko teamed up with D. Razor Babb, a journalist who is incarcerated in state prison in California, to report on health concerns stemming from water quality inside the prison and in the surrounding community. With support from the Fund, the pair identified illnesses among incarcerated people, prison staff and people living in communities near the prison. ...
South Dakota Searchlight and ICT, with support from the Fund, have teamed up for a long-term project to document cases of missing and murdered Indigenous people in South Dakota. This month, the team reported on the murder of Acey Morrison, a transgender woman and member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. It took four years for the man who killed her ...
With support from the Fund, Streetlight, a nonprofit news outlet, found that a Muskogee, Oklahoma, data center has received workplace safety and state environmental violations while using millions of gallons of municipal water a day. The Bitcoin mining facility run by Polaris is part of a race to bring more data centers to Oklahoma as technology companies double down on ...