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Using FOIA requests and hidden-camera videos, the groups targeted universities, leading to the firing of faculty and staff. In February of 2025, as college students across the country settled into their spring semesters, administrators at four major public universities in the Midwest received public records requests about their policies on diversity, equity, and inclusion, or […]
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Metric Media filed more than nine thousand public records requests last year. It used the data to target Democratic politicians and private citizens. Two days after the 2024 elections, Metric Media, the online publishing company, started filing thousands of public records requests. Metric, which operates a network of nearly twelve hundred news sites, sent letters […]
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California nearly triggered a seismic shift in American kitchens this fall. A bill phasing out the sale of nonstick pans made with polytetrafluoroethylene—a type of PFAS “forever chemical”—cleared the state legislature in September with overwhelming support. Given the well-documented health risks associated with production of PTFE, commonly known as Teflon, advocates fully expected Gov. Gavin Newsom […]
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Though Central ND News promises to “fill the void in community news after years of decline in local reporting by legacy media” with “100% original reporting,” no staff are listed on the site and few stories have bylines. Last fall residents of Mandan, North Dakota woke up to an unfamiliar newspaper at their doorsteps. The […]
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Friday termination notices, abrupt reassignments and the erasure of key environmental websites put the future of policing polluters in doubt. When Donald Trump was reelected president, civil servants working at the agencies that oversee federal environmental regulations and prosecute corporate polluters anticipated that many things would soon be reversed, just like the last time. When […]
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The clean energy transition, for one, an analysis of campaign finance data reveals. Read on Mother Jones It was 2:30 in the morning on November 6, 2014, when flames engulfed the New Orleans home of political consultant Mario Zervigon. Someone had lit his cars on fire, and the flames spread to his house. Zervigon and his […]
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The Koch-linked paper appears in Morton County as residents are set to vote — and to hear the case brought by pipeline owner Energy Transfer The newspaper’s motto reads “Real data. Real value. Real news.” But there is nothing real about it. The Central ND News has many of the hallmarks of a legitimate news […]
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Read the story on ProPublica Word tends to spread fast in rural Knox County, Ohio. But misinformation has spread faster. The first article in the Mount Vernon News last fall about a planned solar farm simply noted that residents were “expressing their concern.” But soon the county’s only newspaper was packed with stories about solar […]
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Satellite analysis looked at credits sold by Finite Carbon, which runs some of North America’s largest offset projects Read at The Guardian Some forest carbon offsets sold by the biggest offsetting company in the US offer little or no benefit to the climate, a satellite analysis has found. Finite Carbon, created in 2009 and bought […]
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Read this story on NPR RICHMOND, Calif. — Open flames shot upward from four smokestacks at the Chevron refinery on the western edge of Richmond, Calif. Soon, black smoke blanketed the sky. News spread quickly that day last November, but by word of mouth, says Denny Khamphanthong, a 29-year-old Richmond resident. “We don’t know the full […]
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