Children who work on California farms are particularly susceptible to harm from toxic pesticides, which they’re exposed to because of poor oversight from regulators, reporter Robert Lopez found. For an investigation published in the Los Angeles Times and Capital & Main, and with support from the Fund, Lopez reviewed more than 40,000 records of pesticide enforcement actions and interviewed more ...
Across northern and central California, customers experience thousands of power outages a year due to new power line settings designed to prevent wildfires. With support from the Fund, Emma Foehringer Merchant and Maria Parazo Rose conducted a first-of-its-kind analysis of data on so-called “fast-trip” outages and found that they’ve increased over time and are often triggered by technical glitches. In ...
Offshore betting websites are offering risky, prop bets on amateur college soccer despite the NCAA trying to prevent this, a team of reporters found in a story for Soccer America. Unlike regulated operators, offshore operators do not report suspicious betting movements that can indicate manipulation, so these bets are the perfect place for potential match-fixers to place bets on games ...
At one of the oldest Superfund sites in the country, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has yet to publish a plan that is required to clean areas where rain and other water is collected. A five-month investigation by the nonprofit outlet Streetlight, supported by the Fund, found that engineers who have devoted their careers to remediation of Tar Creek in ...
With support from the Fund, Suzie Amanuel’s months-long investigation of Washington, DC’s at-risk affordable housing stock uncovered that the District quietly forfeited more than $3 million in competitive federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, resulting in a permanent loss of tens of millions of dollars in affordable housing equity. The Washington City Paper investigation revealed that the District’s top housing official ...
Private managers of federally subsidized housing projects in New York City are systematically failing to properly screen tenants for rental-assistance programs, resulting in rent miscalculations and eviction filings, Patrick Spauster found in an investigation for City Limits that was supported by the Fund. Spauster obtained and analyzed thousands of pages of public records to determine that 95 percent of property ...
For years, the state of Hawaii sent foster boys to live with John Teixeira, who sexually preyed on some of the boys and physically abused most of them, and older boys abused younger ones. Reports of abuse were inadequately investigated and went nowhere. With support from the Fund, Honolulu Civil Beat interviewed former foster boys and their relatives and dug ...
For a half-hour documentary on KUNM, the NPR member station in Albuquerque, Kent Patterson and Mercedes Mejia dug into environmental and public-health concerns of Southern New Mexico communities that straddle the Mexican border. For decades, residents have struggled with environmental issues that came to the fore again in 2023, when toxic levels of arsenic were recorded in discolored water. The ...
Georgia is one of the world’s fastest growing markets for new data centers to support the AI boom, and developers are pushing local officials to approve massive construction projects outside of normal processes and over residents’ objections, Edward Donnelly found in an ongoing investigation supported by the Fund. Through public records and on-the-ground reporting, Donnelly tracked how developers hired lobbyists ...
Hundreds of thousands of children nationwide are struggling with long Covid, which many doctors and school refuse to recognize, Eli Cahan reported for Rolling Stone. With a seed grant from the Fund, Cahan spoke with dozens of families over the last two years to examine the impact of long Covid on children. He found “a slow-moving spiral: first their health, ...