As part of his ongoing coverage of data centers, Edward Donnelly reported that the developer of a proposed center in Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania, communicated extensively with state officials before local residents were even aware of the plans – and the developer also asked federal officials to relax air-pollution rules in order to rush through approval of the data center. ...
The regulatory system designed to protect farmworkers from pesticides is enforced haphazardly across California, according to new reporting by Robert Lopez published in the Los Angeles Times and Capital & Main. With support from the Fund, Lopez obtained 40,000 state enforcement actions for the last five years and found that even when regulators determined that companies endangered workers or committed ...
In the first part of a series on deed theft affecting Black homeowners in New York, Karen Carrillo reported for the Amsterdam News on an uptick in fraudulent schemes to take people’s homes in gentrifying neighborhoods. Deed theft happens when someone illegally takes someone’s home without the owner’s knowledge or tricks a homeowner into signing over the deed. Carrillo reported ...
With support from the Fund, What’s Up Worcester News analyzed more than 90,000 service requests from residents and found that – while the city data is limited – requests from lower-income areas take longer to resolve. The story grew out of repeated community concerns about neighborhood conditions, including potholes, street signs, traffic signals and sanitation, and broader questions about whether ...
With support from the Fund, Katia Savchuk spent a year reporting on a Denver pastor and his wife who say God told them to launch their own cryptocurrency. Though they had no background in crypto, they hawked their INDXcoin in Christian communities. More than 500 people – including retirees and a disabled veteran – handed over around $3 million. When ...
Years before the Trump Administration started systematically rolling back DEI policies on a federal level, the Oregon State Parks department was stymied when it came to its own efforts to promote inclusion. For at least seven years, the Oregon Parks department – the manager of millions of acres of land in the progressive state – has acknowledged that the vast ...
The New Bedford Light in Massachusetts continued investigating a local for-profit nursing home chain that has been accused of deliberately understaffing its facilities, which can endanger residents. The company reached a $4 million settlement with the state last year to resolve claims that it put patient health and safety at risk because of deliberate understaffing. With support from the Fund, ...
With support from the Fund, reporters for the Center for Collaborative for Investigative Journalism and the Forbidden Stories Deportation Project probed a secret deal that Uganda signed with the U.S. to receive people who were being deported, even though they had no connection to the country. The story, published in New Lines, spotlights the case of eight people from different ...
Hurricane Helen, in 2025, was the deadliest storm to hit the U.S. since 2017, and it hit Western North Carolina hardest. With support from the Fund, Chris Kromm dug into recovery efforts over the last two years for a story for Facing South, co-published in The Nation. His reporting found that North Carolina’s recovery remains painfully slow and uneven, hampered ...