Amid COVID-19 Concerns, Clinics Step Up Testing For Migrant Farmworkers
“When the pandemic first started, and we were just beginning to hear information about the impact on farmworkers, we knew […]
Climate casualties rising with temperatures
More Americans die from heat than from hurricanes, tornadoes or floods. Under some future scenarios, climate warming could increase heat deaths in North America fivefold. But figuring out how often climate change has already been the culprit in such deaths takes a special kind of detective work. Columbia Journalism Investigations and the Center for Public […]
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Opinion: Will feds rise to the long-term challenges of COVID-19?
It’s really no wonder that the latest Pew Research Survey said that just 17 % of Americans currently trust government […]
EPA temporarily suspends monitoring of a pesticide in water over COVID-19 concerns
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has allowed Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta to halt its water monitoring program of a pesticide […]
Opinion: Government’s dirty little relationship with Big Meat
For those of us who cover Big Agriculture on a daily basis it was no secret. It was just a […]
Bayer seeks to strike $265 million award in first dicamba-related trial
Bayer has filed post-trial motions in the Missouri Bader Farms case, asking for the $265 million verdict to be overturned […]
Coronavirus: Investigate Midwest Reporter Diary
First reported in December, there are now just over 297,000 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, Covid-19, worldwide as of […]
Government watchdog confirms: Feds were warned border separations would harm kids
Workers at shelters for migrant children were warning that family separations would hurt children before the Trump administration ramped up the policy in the spring of 2018, according to a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) internal investigation released Thursday. Once the administration began separations on a mass scale in April 2018 workers at […]
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SEEDS OF DESPAIR: Isolated, and with limited access to mental-health care, hundreds are dying by suicide.
One by one, three men from the same close-knit community took their own lives. Their deaths spanned a two-year stretch […]
Insuring catastrophe
The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates betrayals of public trust. Sign up to receive our stories. BROOKLYN, N.Y. — When Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012, Thalia Panton watched in disbelief as floodwaters careened down her quiet, tree-lined street in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Sparks flew from downed electrical lines as rushing rapids rose […]
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