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.
A Muskogee Bitcoin mining facility that received OSHA fines is part of the data center race in Oklahoma
Mollie Bryant, Streetlight News (Feb. 27, 2026)
Pesticide use and cancer risk rise together across America’s heartland
Ben Felder, InvestigateMidwest and Wisconsin Watch (Feb. 26, 2026)
Continuing Chaos at DC’s Troubled Psychiatric Hospital
Luke Mullins, Washingtonian (Feb. 26, 2026)
State Prison Officials Said an Employee Accused of Sexual Assault Didn’t Exist. We Found Him.
Chris Gelardi, New York Focus (Feb. 20, 2026)
Nobody knows if Wisconsin hemp products are safe or legal. So we tested them.
Gina Lee Castro, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Feb. 19, 2026)
Pesticide use and cancer risk rise together across America’s heartland
Ben Felder, InvestigateMidwest (Feb. 18, 2026)
Cutting Too Deep
Steven W. Thrasher and Afeef Nessouli, The Intercept (Feb. 9, 2026)
Do homebuyers have enough information about Superfund cleanup history?
Mollie Bryant, Streetlight News (Feb. 4, 2026)
The Bay Area’s most-fined air polluters: Explore 10 years of environmental violations
Brian Krans, Richmondside (Jan. 28, 2026)
Loose Rules Let State Police Hand Out Lax Penalties for Serious Misconduct
Sammy Sussman, New York Times (Jan. 28, 2026)
Pepper-Sprayed for Praying
Khawla Nakua, The Appeal (Jan. 21, 2026)
A Small Oil Company Polluted Midland’s Water Reserve. The Cleanup Has Dragged on for Years.
Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News (Jan. 18, 2026)
“After the Darién” Receives Special Recognition
Clavel Rangel and Katie Scarlett Brandt, Chicago Health (Jan. 12, 2026)
New Records Detail How State Bungled ‘Lord Of The Flies’ Foster Home
John Hill, Honolulu Civil Beat (Jan. 12, 2026)
A Dallas Megadonor, a New Nonprofit, and the War on ‘Housing First’
Steven Monacelli, Texas Observer (Jan. 12, 2026)
Seized
Sharon Liese, Sundance (Jan. 2026)
Death at a Mississippi Jail: Brutal Beating or a Fall From Bed?
Nate Rosenfield, Brian Howey, and Jerry Mitchell, New York Times (Dec. 30, 2025)
From undercover stings to a marijuana museum: Inside the haphazard crackdown on Pennsylvania’s smoke shops
Max Marin and Ryan W. Briggs, The Philadelphia Inquirer (Dec. 24, 2025)
A Judge Tossed a Prison Sex Abuse Lawsuit Over Typos. Hundreds More Dismissals Could Be Coming.
Chris Gelardi and Jessy Edwards, New York Focus (Dec. 22, 2025)
Lessons learned as Maine began pushing for heat pumps in mobile homes
Emmett Gartner, The Maine Monitor (Dec. 21, 2025)
Failure to activate: When Utah officers violate body-cam policies
Sydnee Chapman, Utah News Dispatch & The Utah Investigative Journalism Project (Dec. 19, 2025)
Chicago Homeless Shelter Residents Say They Wait Months At the City’s Intake Center Before Being Placed At a Shelter
Aydali Campa and Katrina Pham, Borderless Magazine (Dec. 18, 2025)
Locked Out: How Some of Los Angeles’ Biggest Landlords Leave Section 8 Tenants Behind
Robin Urevich, Capital & Main (Dec. 16-23, 2025)
At elder care facility where two were left behind in Eaton Fire evacuation, residents demand change
Aaron Schrank, LAist (Dec. 9, 2025)
Nowhere to Go: Inside the Texas Boarding Home System Where Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Are Widespread
Ottavia Spaggiari, Texas Observer (Dec. 8, 2025)
To protect underage farmworkers, California expands oversight of field conditions
Robert J. Lopez, Los Angeles Times (Dec. 5, 2025)
Idaho prison system calls for strengthened sexual abuse law in response to InvestigateWest series
Whitney Bryen, InvestigateWest (Dec. 4, 2025)
U.S. Helicopters Used to Kill Civilians in Philippines, Locals Say
Nick Aspinwall, Drop Site (Dec. 2, 2025)
Congress made it easier to ignore grazing’s harm to public lands
Mark Olalde, Jimmy Tobias and Lucas Waldron, High Country News (Dec. 2, 2025)
For official use only
Max Blaisdell and Matt Chapman, Chicago Reader (Dec. 1, 2025)
Searching for Savannah: Eight months and no answers since woman’s disappearance
John Hult and Amelia Schafer, South Dakota Searchlight (Nov. 25, 2025)
‘The Precedent Is Flint’: How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Sean Patrick Cooper, Rolling Stone (Nov. 24, 2025)
Lax oversight, few inspections leave child farmworkers exposed to toxic pesticides
Robert J. Lopez, Los Angeles Times (Nov. 20, 2025)
Shaken dry: LADWP’s failure to plan and repair for the “Big One”
Katie Licari, AfroLA (Nov. 18, 2025)
After decades, the EPA still doesn’t have a plan to clean watersheds at one of the oldest Superfund sites in the country
Mollie Bryant, Streetlight News (Nov. 17, 2025)
In a Brutal Mississippi Jail, Inmates Say They Were Enlisted as Enforcers
Brian Howey, Mukta Joshi, and Nate Rosenfield, New York Times (Nov. 16, 2025)
How DHCD Forfeited $35 Million in Federal Assistance for Affordable Housing and Bailed Out a Well-Connected Developer
Suzie Amanuel, Washington City Paper (Nov. 14, 2025)
New Orleans Archdiocese bankruptcy pulls abuse survivor into prolonged ordeal
Jason Berry, National Catholic Reporter (Nov. 11, 2025)
Illegal offshore betting websites offer wagers on U.S. college soccer games
Steve Menary, SoccerAmerica (Nov. 11, 2025)
For rural Californians, unreliable power has become the norm
Emma Foehringer Merchant and Maria Parazo Rose, High Country News (Nov. 3, 2025)
Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Nick Bowlin, ProPublica (Oct. 29, 2025)
Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation
Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone (Oct. 16, 2025)
Guarded by Predators
Wilson Criscione and Whitney Bryen, InvestigateWest (Oct. 12-16, 2025)
‘Lord Of The Flies’: How Hawaiʻi’s Model Foster Dad Preyed On Boys
John Hill, Honolulu Civil Beat (Oct. 3, 2025)
‘The public is losing out’
Elizabeth Stewart-Severy, Aspen Journalism (Oct. 2, 2025)
The Compliance Crisis in New York City’s Project-Based Rental Assistance Program
Patrick Spauster, City Limits (Oct. 2, 2025)
State Tries To Seal Foster Care Files To Protect Info It Already Revealed
John Hill, Honolulu Civil Beat (Oct. 2, 2025)
‘You Take What You Can Get’: Hawaiʻi Brushed Off Signs Of Abuse At Foster Home
John Hill, Honolulu Civil Beat (Oct. 1, 2025)
Foster Home Abuses Were Secret For Years. A Lawsuit Exposed Them
John Hill, Honolulu Civil Beat (Sept. 30, 2025)
The Repairs Crisis in NYC’s Project Based Rental Assistance Program
Patrick Spauster, City Limits (Sept. 30, 2025)
The Fallout: Life After Aging Out Of An Abusive Foster Home
John Hill, Honolulu Civil Beat (Sept. 29, 2025)
The Compliance Crisis in New York City’s Project-Based Rental Assistance Program
Patrick Spauster, City Limits (Sept. 29, 2025)
Inside DC’s Troubled Psychiatric Hospital: “This Place Is Actually Trauma-Inducing”
Luke Mullins, Washingtonian (Sept. 25, 2025)
Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences.
Eli Cahan, ProPublica (Sept. 22, 2025)
Developers Push Huge Server Farm in Another Rural Georgia County
Edward Donnelly, DeSmog (Sept. 17, 2025)
New York’s Attorney General Wanted to Review Innocence Claims. Prosecutor Politics Got in the Way.
Willow Higgins and Curtis Brodner, NY Focus (Sept. 10, 2025)
Developers’ tree-cutting pace surges under contested Seattle tree protection ordinance
Robert McClure, InvestigateWest (Sept. 10, 2025)
In New York, Some Police Officers Can Drink, Drive and Avoid Charges
Sammy Sussman, New York Times (Sept. 9, 2025)
Malcolm James died in jail, a $20 million lawsuit demands answers
Denise Lockwood, Racine County Eye (Sept. 9, 2025)
Vans, North Face, Timberland: Are US brands skirting forced labour law to source from China?
Daniel Murphy, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (Sept. 8, 2025)
Already flagged for integrity concerns, a Milwaukee police officer lied under oath – and kept patrolling
Ashley Luthern, Wisconsin Watch (Aug. 22, 2025)
Data Center Lobbyists Clear the Way for Mega-Projects in Rural Georgia
Edward Donnelly, DeSmog (Aug. 18, 2025)
When Hospitals Act Like ICE
Liset Cruz, Type Investigations (Aug. 14, 2025)
A crisis of the commons
Paul Andersen, Aspen Journalism (Aug. 8, 2025)
Maddening’ Proof Plastics Industry Knew Recycling Was False Solution in 1974, New Document Shows
Rebecca John, DeSmog (Aug. 5, 2025)
A Maine woman paid her back rent. Her record still says she was evicted.
Sawyer Loftus, The Maine Monitor (Aug. 5, 2025)
Sunland Revisited: People, power and environmental justice on the U.S.-Mexico border
Kent Paterson, KUNM (Aug. 5, 2025)
The Adoption Trap
Sandy West, Texas Observer (July 21, 2025)
Killer Train: Brightline death toll surpasses 180, but safeguards are still lacking
Brittany Wallman, Aaron Leibowitz, Shradha Dinesh, Susan Merriam, Daniel Rivero and Joshua Ceballos, WLRN and Miami Herald (July 14, 2025)
US pollution measurement practices raise questions about reliability of data
Tom Perkins, The Guardian (July 11, 2025)
They’re Fighting Polluters. Trump’s Tax Bill Guts Their Funding
Antonia Juhasz, Rolling Stone (July 3, 2025)
Trump’s Deep-Sea Mining Order Will Likely Impact Gulf States, Biodiversity—But First Up: American Samoa
Elyse Hauser, Deceleration (July 1, 2025)
Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom
Rebecca Grant, Simon & Schuster (June 24, 2025)
Man had prior charges dropped despite police witnesses, then went on to kidnap 3 kids in St. George
Eric S. Peterson and Sydnee Chapman, The Utah Investigative Journalism Project (June 23, 2025)
She Says She Was Sexually Abused in New York Prisons. Now She’s Fighting the State From Her Hospital Bed
Jessy Edwards, New York Focus (June 19, 2025)
The Shade Gap: How Development Is Taking a Toll on D.C.’s Tree Canopy, Putting Human Health At Risk
Hola Cultura, Hola Cultura (May 29, 2025)
China’s economy runs on Uyghur forced labour
Daniel Murphy, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (May 29, 2025)
EPA excluded, then restored, data on Black people who live closest to toxic sites
Mollie Bryant, Streetlight (May 28, 2025)
Deep Cover: The Truth About Sarah
Jake Halpern, Pushkin (May 26-June 23, 2025)
The costs of Alabama prison litigation are rising. Private attorneys are reaping the rewards.
Beth Shelburne, Alabama Reflector (May 22, 2025)
The ordeal of Koty Williams
Beth Shelburne, Alabama Reflector (May 21, 2025)
Alcoa Mines Australia’s Forest
Quinn Glabicki and Jamie Wiggan, PublicSource (May 20, 2025)
In wake of excessive force allegations, some corrections officers got promoted
Beth Shelburne, Alabama Reflector (May 20, 2025)
Blood Money: Alabama Department of Corrections pays to settle lawsuits alleging excessive force
Beth Shelburne, Alabama Reflector (May 19, 2025)
Van Nuys Airport Still Lacks Clear Warnings on Toxic Aircraft Fuel
Chris Bibona and Shane Dimapanat, Capital & Main (May 19, 2025)
Deep Cover: The Truth About Sarah
Jake Halpern, Pushkin Industries (May 12-June 9, 2025)
Divided Dial: Season 2
Katie Thornton, WYNC (May 7-28, 2025)
The Crypto Racket
Candice Bernd, The Texas Observer (May 5, 2025)
Duty to Disclose
Ashley Luthern and Khushboo Rathore, Wisconsin Watch (March-April 2025)
Inside the controversial tree farms powering Apple’s carbon neutral goal
Gregory Barber, MIT Technology Review (April 24, 2025)
The unregulated link in a toxic supply chain
Naveena Sadasivam & Lylla Younes, Grist (April 16, 2025)
How to Tell a Dumb American Story
Sierra Crane Murdoch, NPR: This American Life (April 11, 2025)
Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America
Sharon Udasin and Rachel Frazin, Island Press (April 10, 2025)
Residents Say Van Nuys Airport Is Making Them Sick
Chris Bibona and Shane Dimapanat, Capital & Main (March 31, 2025)
FBI Recorded Hawaiʻi Lawmaker Being Given $35,000
Christina Jedra and Blaze Lovell, Honolulu Civil Beat (March 27, 2025)
Stranded: The Trump-induced migration crisis in Mexico
Daniela Díaz, The New Humanitarian (March 26, 2025)
Investigation finds Covington Schools failed to adequately ‘respond to reports of sexual harassment’
Nathan Granger, LINK nky (March 24, 2025)
Web of abuse: Several women say Utah police, courts have failed to stop an alleged serial abuser
Sydnee Chapman, Utah Investigative Journalism Project & KSL.com (March 23, 2025)
After the Darien: Venezuelan migrant children and the mental health journey they face
Clavel Rangel and Katie Scarlett Brandt, Tiempo Latino (March 6, 2025)
As the Great Salt Lake recedes, industry rises
Brooke Larsen, High Country News (March 1, 2025)
Georgia DFCS relied on controversial laboratory for drug tests crucial to custody decisions
Jake Shore, The Current (March 1, 2025)
Kept in the Dark: Inside the St. Landry Parish Schools Ransomware Attack
Mark Keierleber, The 74 and Wired (Feb. 24, 2025)
Suicides highlight apathy, lack of accountability at Idaho’s Canyon County jail
Whitney Bryen, InvestigateWest (Feb. 22, 2025)
Exporting Conversion Therapy
Finbarr Toesland, The Progressive (Feb. 19, 2025)
DAs Promised to Help Wrongfully Convicted New Yorkers. In Many Cases, They Made Things Worse.
Ryan Kost and Willow Higgins, New York Focus (Feb. 13, 2025)
Blood Vines
Chris Walker, Wondery (Feb. 5, 2025)
How to Solve a Murder: A Five-Part Guide
Arwa Mahdawi, Flaming Hydra (Feb. 5, 2025)
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)