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The Biden administration banned mining on more than 225,000 acres of federal land near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness for the next 20 years, blocking copper-nickel sulfide mining from potentially polluting the interconnected waterways of Northeastern Minnesota. [In July 2022, the Investigative Reporting Workshop produced an in-depth look into two of the proposed mining …

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The Data Liberation Project recently launched, making government data more available and useful for the general public. Jeremy Singer-Vine, a data journalist who formerly worked as a data editor for eight years at Buzzfeed News, rolled out the new website earlier this fall as a result of his own frustrations as a data journalist. After …

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Dr. Anthony Fauci said it was during his childhood in Brooklyn that he first encountered the spirit of community care that would guide his more than five decades of government service.  His father, a pharmacist, was seen as the area’s family doctor. “Right from the time that I was born,” Fauci said in a recent …

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More than 2.3 million migrants tried to enter the United States without authorization in fiscal year 2022, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, up 37.1% from 1.7 million the previous fiscal year. Since March, those numbers have not dropped below 200,000 and peaked in May with 241,136 crossing attempts. Single adults formed the highest …

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In some cases, these ‘emissions events’ aren’t illegal. In others, state regulators give polluters the benefit of the doubt.

Martin Vargas Arellano contracted COVID-19 while in the Adelanto Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center. Vargas Arellano had been in immigration detention since 2019. Though a judge had ordered Vargas Arellano’s release at the beginning of the pandemic, citing his pre-existing health conditions, U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement refused to release him after his housing …

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State Rep. Morales Shaw said she will write policies to tackle issues revealed in IRW and PHW’s recent investigation.

Public Health Watch Reporter David Leffler tells about his late-night drive with community advocate Juan Flores as they searched for the source of a toxic leak.

Charles Lewis will remain with IRW as emeritus executive editor as the newsroom transitions to new leadership, following his retirement at the end of the year from the faculty at American University.

President Joe Biden has made clear the United States does not intend to send troops to fight in Ukraine. Instead, Western nations are responding with economic sanctions intended to target Russian President Vladimir Putin and hundreds of individuals and state-controlled companies. But look a bit closer, and the U.S.’ sanctions have a surprising number of …

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