Below is an index of stories over the last 18 months that were produced with funding and other critical support from the Fund for Investigative Journalism.
How North America’s Leading Brownfield Redeveloper Makes Millions by Not Redeveloping Brownfields
Daniel Propp, Inside Climate News (Jan. 12, 2025)
Revealed: how a US public university courted the gas industry despite climate impacts
Sara Sneath and Natalie McLendon, The Guardian (Jan. 9, 2025)
The ‘ticking time bomb’ facing Wyoming’s public defenders and their clients
David Dudley, WyoFile (Jan. 7, 2025)
The Redemption of Eric Magrini Part 2: The Shasta County Board of Supervisors’ Hit List
R.V. Scheide, A News Cafe (Dec. 29, 2024)
New measures in place to keep squatters out of senior care home
Randall Yip, AsAmNews (Dec. 27, 2024)
Legislature May Take A Stand Against Decades Of Pay-To-Play Politics
Blaze Lovell, Honolulu Civil Beat (Dec. 26, 2024)
The Redemption of Eric Magrini Part 1: The Truth About the Kropholler Whistleblower Complaint
R.V. Scheide, A News Cafe (Dec. 23, 2024)
The Gutting of the 8th Amendment
Nicole Einbinder, Business Insider (Dec. 19, 2024)
Squatters take over former senior care facility in Los Angeles
Randall Yip, AsAmNews (Dec. 19, 2024)
‘Where’s the money?’ White outsiders convinced a Native American tribe to start a legal weed business. It ended in disaster
Judith Matloff, The Guardian (Dec. 17, 2024)
Maine Public Housing Tenants Face Eviction at High Rates. A New Program to Keep Renters Housed Excludes Them.
Sawyer Loftus, Bangor Daily News & ProPublica (Dec. 12, 2024)
Velsicol’s defunct Memphis plant may become environmental trust
Ashli Blow, MLK 50 (Dec. 11, 2024)
Building sits empty years after senior care residents evicted
Randall Yip, AsAmNews (Dec. 11, 2024)
I’m Just a Bill: Rhode Island Rocks Unfunded Mandates
Rob Smith, EcoRI (Dec. 9, 2024)
‘Dead on the Vine:’ Advisory Boards Created by Legislation Often Left Unfilled
Colleen Cronin, EcoRI (Dec. 9, 2024)
When We Sold God’s Eye
Alex Cuadros, Grand Central Publishing (Dec. 3, 2024)
Despite critics, organic farming thrives in heart of US corn country
Keith Schneider, The New Lede (Nov. 18, 2024)
In battleground Wisconsin, Latinos feel ignored by both political parties
Alfredo Corchado, Palabra & Feet in 2 Worlds (Nov. 4, 2024)
‘I thought I was doing the right thing.’ Dayton man arrested for not disclosing HIV speaks out
Cid Standifer, The Buckeye Flame (Nov. 1, 2024)
A Failing Grade: How An Inhumane Immigration Policy Robbed Children Of An Education
Maritza L. Felix, Palabra (Oct. 31, 2024)
After “Zero Tolerance”: Once Separated, Migrant Students Forge Ahead With Resilience
Joshua E. S. Phillips, Palabra (Oct. 31, 2024)
Border911: The misinformation network profiting off the false invasion narrative
Melissa del Bosque, Maria Polletta, Francesca D’Annunzio, Monica C. Camacho and Jack Sapoch, Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting (Oct. 22, 2024)
Providence Students’ Sensitive Data Exposed in Cyberattack — District Denies Leak
Mark Keierleber, The 74 (Oct. 18, 2024)
The GOP Megadonor Behind the Bid to Break Dallas City Government
Steven Monacelli, Texas Observer (Oct. 18, 2024)
Alabama paying $250,000 to mother of man fatally beaten in prison but admits no wrongdoing
Beth Shelburne, Alabama Reflector (Oct. 10, 2024)
‘I would have been a great mom’: California finally pays reparations to woman it sterilized
Cayla Mihalovich, Cal Matters (Oct. 7, 2024)
How Culturally Specific Information — and Misinformation — Targets Latinos
Paulina Velasco, Palabra (Oct. 3, 2024)
Newsom Vetoes Farmworker Heat Safety Bill as State Enforcement Has Fallen
Robert J. Lopez, Capital & Main (Oct. 1, 2024)
Behind the Badge
Sammyl Sussman, New York Focus (Oct. 2024)
For-profit nursing homes blamed for declining care
Randall Yip, AsAmNews (Sept. 27, 2024)
The Girl in the Yellow Scarf
Sandra Chapman, PBS (Sept. 26, 2024)
The Power of Latino Radio
Paulina Velasco, Palabra (Sept. 25, 2024)
Political Power Plays Are Short-Circuiting San Francisco’s Climate Goals
Kristi Coale, The Frisc (Sept. 19, 2024)
This is the secret system that covers up police misconduct — and ensures problem officers can get hired again
Katey Rusch and Casey Smith, The San Francisco Chronicle (Sept. 18, 2024)
Spotting and Responding to Misinformation: A Quick Guide
Andrés Pacheco-Girón, Palabra & Feet in 2 Worlds (Sept. 16, 2024)
A Diaspora Haunted by Disinformation
Paulina Velasco, Palabra & Feet in 2 Worlds (Sept. 16, 2024)
The CPD’s ‘you lie, you die’ rule, explained
Max Blaisdell, Chicago Reader (Sept. 11, 2024)
Thin blue lies
Max Blaisdell and Sam Stecklow, Chicago Reader (Sept. 11, 2024)
Season 4: Climate Divide
Hola Cultura, (Aug. 7-28, 2024)
Health Department Refuses to Create the List of Patients Vulnerable During Blackouts
Eliván Martínez Mercado, Centro de Periodismo Investigativo (Aug. 20, 2024)
California cuts back on safety enforcement as farmworkers toil in extreme heat
Robert J. Lopez, Los Angeles Times (Aug. 15, 2024)
How US Religious Groups are Exporting Conversion Therapy to Europe
Finbarr Toesland, Byline Times (Aug. 14, 2024)
The Skagway Shuffle Full Series
Molly McCluskey, KHNS (Aug. 15, 2024)
Rising rents, unlivable apartments leave tenants desperate, confused, and often helpless
Alejandra Cancino, Maya Dukmasova, Forest Gregg and Alex Richards, Injustice Watch (Aug. 7, 2024)
Armed and Untouchable: ICE’s History of Deadly Force
Lila Hassan, The Trace (Aug. 1, 2024)
Mount Sinai mounted aggressive campaign to stifle debate over revelations about its controversial brain research
Katherine Eban, Stat News (July 31, 2024)
Fatal consequences: Pima County Jail inmates were dying at alarming rate
Dylan Smith and Natalie Robbins, Tucson Sentinel (July 26, 2024)
A River of Deception
Rico Moore, The Margin (July 25, 2024)
California passed a law to fix unsafe homeless shelters. Cities and counties are ignoring it
Lauren Helper, Cal Matters (July 17, 2024)
Exposed
Patricia Clarembaux, Federica Narancio and Esther Poveda, Univision Noticias (July 11, 2024)
40 Acres and a Lie
Alexia Fernández Campbell, April Simpson, and Pratheek Rebala, Mother Jones (June 12, 2024)
In Eagle County, pairing mental health clinicians with police has helped callers in crisis
Kelli Duncan, VailDaily (June 12, 2024)
The “Trash” School
Georgia Gee, The Intercept (June 4, 2024)
Louisiana School District Notifies Data Breach Victims After News Investigation
Mark Keierleber, Stephen Marcantel & Ashley White, The 74 (May 29, 2024)
The “Remnant Alliance” is Coming for a School Board Near You
Steven Monacelli, The Texas Observer (May 8, 2024)
Small insurers are growing in Louisiana. Will more go insolvent after the next big storm?
Sam Karlin, The Times-Picayune (May 6, 2024)
How oil and gas companies are hiding their true emissions
Tom Brown and Christina Last, Follow the Money (May 2, 2024)
Methane emissions from gas flaring being hidden from satellite monitors
Tom Brown and Christina Last, The Guardian (May 2, 2024)
How attacks on energy substations play into the hands of extremists
Jane C. Hu, High Country News (May 1, 2024)
The Strike
Lucas Guilkey, Hot Docs | Toronto (Apr. 28, 2024)
PG&E Controls San Francisco’s Grid. Here’s Why This Is a Problem for the City’s Electric Future
Kristi Coale, The Frisc (Apr. 24, 2024)
LSU’s fossil-fuel partnerships
Sara Sneath, The Lens (Apr. 19, 2024)
Nonfatal police shootings in Detroit: First-of-its-kind investigation raises questions
Violet Ikonomova, Detroit Free Press (Apr. 18, 2024)
Behind the Badge: In New York City Homeless Shelters, the Same ‘Peace Officers’ Abuse Residents
Sammy Sussman, Annika Grosser and Sanjana Bhambhani, New York Focus (Apr. 15, 2024)
They Make Viral Gun Videos—With Hardline Christian Values
Lila Hassan, Mother Jones (April 2024)
More Migrants Are Drowning in the Rio Grande Than Ever. No Agency Is Keeping Track of How Many.
Aaron Nelsen, Texas Monthly (April 2024)
A loophole in the EPA’s new sterilizer rule leaves warehouse workers vulnerable
Naveena Sadasivam and Lylla Younes, Grist (Mar. 22, 2024)
Inside the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Brady lists
Max Blaisdell, Sam Stecklow and Matt Chapman, Chicago Reader (Mar. 11, 2024)
Chicago Ignored Dozens Of Warnings Of Migrant Shelter Conditions Before Child’s Death
Mauricio Peña, Borderless, Katrina Pham, Borderless and Nissa Rhee, Borderless (Feb. 28, 2024)
Prevention in schools gets help from Oregon Health Plan
Nick Budnick, The Lund Report (Feb. 15, 2024)
Hazard NYC: Toxic Superfund Sites in the Age of Climate Change
Samantha Maldonado, The City (Feb. 14-17, 2024)
Utah’s shelter crisis has gotten worse after a change meant to help domestic violence victims
K. Sophie Will and Eric S. Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune (Feb. 13, 2024)
Some East Palestine Residents Want the EPA to Test Inside Their Homes. EPA says ‘No’
Reid Frazier, The Allegheny Front (Feb. 12, 2024)
The Stolen Wealth of Slavery
David Montero, Hachette Book Group (Feb. 6, 2024)
Utah’s shelter crisis has gotten worse after a change meant to help domestic violence victims
K. Sophie Will and Eric S. Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune (Feb. 5, 2024)
Idaho Youth Treatment Home Exposed In InvestigateWest Investigation Closes Down
Wilson Criscione, Investigate West (Feb. 3, 2024)
Why a natural gas storage climate ‘disaster’ could happen again
Taylor Kate Brown, Grist (Feb. 3, 2024)
Hidden Subsidies Prop Up New York’s Fossil Fuel Industry
Colin Kinniburgh and Julia Rock, New York Focus (Feb. 2, 2024)
A Year Later, the Stream Flowing Under Peoples’ Homes in East Palestine is Still Polluted
Reid Frazier, The Allegheny Front (Feb. 2, 2024)
Why a natural gas storage climate ‘disaster’ could happen again
Taylor Kate Brown, Floodlight (Feb. 2, 2024)
Ohio Derailment Reveals Gaps in Public Health Response to Chemical Emergencies, Experts Say
Julie Grant, The Allegheny Front (Feb. 1, 2024)
A Pennsylvania Resident Impacted by the Norfolk Southern Derailment Pushes for Answers
Kara Holsoppe, The Allegheny Front (Feb. 1, 2024)
Why a Natural Gas Storage Climate ‘Disaster’ that Happened in Cambria County Happen Again
Floodlight, The Allegheny Front (Jan. 30, 2024)
Leaving East Palestine: A Mother’s Story
Julie Grant, The Allegheny Front (Jan. 26, 2024)
Scientist Questions EPA’s Handling of East Palestine Cleanup: “They Should Have Tested Correctly”
Reid Frazier, The Allegheny Front (Jan. 26, 2024)
Their insurer went broke years ago. These Louisianans are still fighting to be made whole.
Sam Karlin, The New Orleans Advocate (Jan. 16, 2024)
Partisans are Politicizing Our Schools
Steven Monacelli, Texas Observer (Jan. 16, 2024)
Other states drive youth prevention in ways Oregon does not
Emily Green, Lund Report (Jan. 16, 2024)
Investigation: Most Oregon drug use prevention programs for kids not science-backed
Emily Green, Oregon Public Broadcasting (Jan. 16, 2024)
How Louisiana’s failed insurers left ‘beaten down’ hurricane victims exposed
Sam Karlin, The New Orleans Advocate (Jan. 15, 2024)
Louisiana welcomed small insurers looking to make money fast. Then the house of cards collapsed.
Sam Karlin, The New Orleans Advocate (Jan. 11, 2024)
DATA PORTAL: Drug prevention in Oregon classrooms
Emily Green and Elizabeth Yost, Lund Report (Jan. 11, 2024)
U.S. mining companies leave lasting trail of contamination across Peru
Roberth Orihuela, Mongabay (Jan. 10, 2024)
Idaho investigators repeatedly found kids in danger. Treatment programs faced few consequences.
Wilson Criscione, Investigate West (Jan. 4, 2024)
‘We Can’t Sit Back’: Amid Polluted Water and Climbing Cancer Rates, Iowa Eyes Farm Chemicals
Keith Schneider, The Good Men Project (Jan. 3, 2024)
How undisclosed evidence can put Ohioans behind bars
Matthew Richmond, Ideastream Public Media, Jake Kincaid, Columbia Journalism Investigations, Cameron Oakes, Columbia Journalism Investigations, NPR (Dec. 29, 2023)
An Arm and Leg: When Hospitals Sue Patients (Part 2)
Dan Weissmann, KFF Health News (Dec. 28, 2023)
How We Reported ‘The Cruelest Lie’
Wilson Criscione, Investigate West (Dec. 28, 2023)
The Cruelest Lie: You’re Safe Now
Wilson Criscione, Investigate West (Dec. 28, 2023)
How we investigated Maine’s probate courts
Samantha Hogan, The Maine Monitor (Dec. 14, 2023)
Improper conduct: how undisclosed evidence can put Ohioans behind bars
Matthew Richmond, Ideastream Public Media, Jake Kincaid, Columbia Journalism Investigations, Cameron Oakes, Columbia Journalism Investigations, Ideastream Public Media (Dec. 19, 2023)
An Arm and a Leg: When Hospitals Sue Patients (Part 1)
Dan Weissmann, KFF Health News (Dec. 14, 2023)
Investigation: Migrants Describe Inhumane Conditions At Chicago’s Largest Shelter
Mauricio Peña, Katrina Pham and Nissa Rhee, Borderless (Dec. 14, 2023)
Ohio prosecutors broke rules to win convictions and got away with it
Gabriela Alcalde, Jake Kincaid, Patricia Martínez Sastre, Cameron Oakes, Nick Swartsell, Cheryl W. Thompson, NPR (Dec. 14, 2023)
Texas Observer School Board Investigation Spurs Call for Reform
Steven Monacelli, Texas Observer (Dec. 7, 2023)
Federal agencies pushed extreme view of Cop City protesters, records show
Alleen Brown, The Guardian (Dec. 6, 2023)
How Federal Reports about an Eco-terrorist Threat Fueled the Crackdown on Cop City Opponents
Alleen Brown, Drilled (Dec. 6, 2023)
U.S. push for methane biodigesters could boost farm income but draws air and water quality concerns
Keith Schneider, Minn Post (Dec. 5, 2023)
A cyberattack hit thousands in a Louisiana school district. They’re still in the dark.
Mark Keieleber and Ashley White, The Advocate (Dec. 4, 2023)
Against Their Will: Maine’s probate courts lack a method to detect fraud. Some other states have robust audit systems.
Samantha Hogan, The Maine Monitor (Dec. 3, 2023)
The Logjam in Biden’s $50 Billion Dollar Wildfire Plan
Paul Koberstein and Jessica Applegate, Undark (Nov. 23, 2023)
These are the Right-Wing Ideologues Taking Over School Boards
Steven Monacelli, Texas Observer (Nov. 13, 2023)
US Regulators Order Minnesota to Clean Up Nitrate Contaminated Water
Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue (Nov. 9, 2023)
San Diego agency might be approving illegal rent increases while taxpayers foot the bill
Cody Dulaney, iNewsSource (Nov. 9, 2023)
Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change
Ben Austen, Macmillan (Nov. 7, 2023)
How An Idaho Children’s Facility Got Away With Firing Whistleblowers Of Child Abuse
Wilson Criscione, Investigate West (Nov. 7, 2023)
After Massive Renovations, Code Violations Rise Steeply in Subsidized Housing
Madison Alvarado, SF Public Press (Oct. 27, 2023)
Green Gold Land
Wangyuxuan Xu and Zhe Wu, Los Angeles Times (Oct. 24, 2023)
Fine Particles Kill Thousands of Texans a Year. It’s Likely to Get Worse.
Savanna Strott, Public Health Watch (Oct. 23, 2023)
Higher need, lower experience: Pittsburgh’s tenured teachers cluster in best-supported schools
Lajja Mistry, Public Source (Oct. 23, 2023)
Sheriff Mark Lamb tells Pinal County Board of Supervisors guns he bought benefit jail inmates
John Washington, AZ Luminaria (Oct. 20, 2023)
Lawmakers, Advocates Call For Increased Oversight Of Idaho Youth Homes
Wilson Criscione, Investigate West (Oct. 16, 2023)
California Prisons Fail to Uphold Transgender Rights Despite State Law
Lee Romney and Jenny Johnson, KQED (Oct. 13, 2023)
Revealed: Amazon linked to trafficking of workers in Saudi Arabia
Pramod Acharya and Michael Hudson, The Guardian (Oct. 10, 2023)
The Uyghurs Forced to Process the World’s Fish
Ian Urbina, The New Yorker (Oct. 9, 2023)
Maine’s constitution says people in guardianships with mental illness cannot vote. Voters can change that in November.
Samantha Hogan, The Maine Monitor (Oct. 8, 2023)
From Bannon to Bolsonaro, misinformation and Brazil’s coup attempt
Natalia Viana, Alice Maciel Laura Scofield and Juliana Dal Piva, The Brazilian Report (Oct. 5, 2023)
Wyoming’s jails are among the deadliest in the nation for suicide
Shane Sanderson, WyoFile (Oct. 4, 2023)
The Cost of Free Land
Rebecca Clarren, Penguin Random House (Oct. 3, 2023)
In Minnesota, families blame farm nutrient contamination for heavy cancer toll
Keith Schneider, Investigate Midwest (Oct. 3, 2023)
Rape, Beatings And Racial Slurs: None Of It Was Enough To Shut Down This Idaho Youth Facility
Wilson Criscione, Investigate West (Oct. 1, 2023)
Pinal Sheriff Mark Lamb’s office spent $200K on guns and ammo from an ‘inmate welfare’ fund
John Washington, AZ Luminaria (Sept. 29, 2023)
5 fixes for Michigan’s polluted industrial legacy, and a cleaner future
Paula Gardner and Kelly House, Bridge Michigan (Sept. 25, 2023)
How Bridge tallied $259M in public costs for auto industry pollution
Paula Gardner and Kelly House, Bridge Michigan (Sept. 25, 2023)
Key findings in Bridge Michigan auto project
Paula Gardner and Kelly House, Bridge Michigan (Sept. 25, 2023)
Small supplier, big mess: Jackson pays the price of auto industry pollution
Paula Gardner and Kelly House, Bridge Michigan (Sept. 25, 2023)
Michigan developers find new uses for contaminated industrial sites
Paula Gardner and Kelly House, Bridge Michigan (Sept. 25, 2023)
As automakers win incentives for EV plants, Michigan pays for polluted past
Paula Gardner and Kelly House, Bridge Michigan (Sept. 25, 2023)
With thousands of tainted sites, Michigan Dems eye return to ‘polluter pay’
Paula Gardner and Kelly House, Bridge Michigan (Sept. 25, 2023)
‘They destroyed our little town.’ What Michigan’s auto industry left behind
Paula Gardner and Kelly House, Bridge Michigan (Sept. 25, 2023)
How America’s War Devastated Afghanistan’s Environment
Lynzy Billing, New Lines Magazine (Sept. 25, 2023)
Prosecutors allege pressure tactics after Trump’s political operation paid over $44 million to witness lawyers
Anna Massoglia, Open Secrets (Sept. 22, 2023)
For Pittsburgh schools, per-student budgets can be thousands of dollars apart
Lajja Mistry, Pittsburgh Public Source (Sept. 19, 2023)
Billionaire megadonor couple funding election denial with extensive influence machine and dark money network
Olivia Buckley and Anna Massoglia, Open Secrets (Sept. 15, 2023)
On ‘Cancer Road,’ a group of southeastern Minnesota families ask if nitrate exposure is to blame
Keith Schneider, MinnPost (Sept. 15, 2023)
A Tale of Two Tribal Nations
Anya Steinberg, Sequoia Carrillo, Rund Abdelfatah, Ramtin Arablouei, Cristina Kim, Casey Mineri, Julie Caine, Lawrence Wu, Devin Katayama, Peter Balonon-Rosen, Sasha Crawford-Holland, Amir Marshi, NPR Throughline (Sept. 14, 2023)
Eight deaths raise questions about oversight of Maine’s public guardianships
Samantha Hogan, The Maine Monitor (Sept. 10, 2023)
Hawaii Said This Big Island Dad Abused His Son — Then Three Years Later Changed Its Mind
John Hill, Honolulu Civil Beat (Sept. 3, 2023)
Black Water: How Industry Fights Controls of Little-Known Drinking Water Contaminant
Natasha Gilbert, Public Health Watch (Aug. 29, 2023)
Advising farmers on fertilizer, universities add to water pollution woes
Keith Schneider, The New Lede (Aug. 25, 2023)
The College That Refused to Die
Pam Kelley, The Assembly (Aug. 16, 2023)
Pima Sheriff’s Dep’t failed to notify family of dead inmate for 2.5 months
Natalie Robbins and Dylan Smith, Tuscon Sentinel (Aug. 9, 2023)
Trump political operation steers $130 million in donor money to cover legal fees
Anna Massoglia, Open Secrets (Aug. 4, 2023)
They were 2 Chicago pizza delivery guys. Then, they ran a Mexican drug cartel, feds say
Oscar Lopez and Frank Main, Chicago SunTimes (Aug. 4, 2023)
A Utah Therapist Built a Reputation for Helping Gay Latter-day Saints. These Men Say He Sexually Abused Them.
Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune (Aug. 3, 2023)