by Sharon Lerner The Environmental Protection Agency recently gave a Chevron refinery the green light to create fuel from discarded plastics as part of a… Read »New EPA approved “climate-friendly” fuel comes with cancer risk
by Jessica Priest and Perla Trevizo This article is co-published with The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan local newsroom that informs and engages with Texans.… Read »Decades of mass shootings in Texas with no meaningful legislative response
by Kristen Doerer On Jan. 23, 2023, the IRS began accepting and processing returns for the 2022 tax year. That means that the window for… Read »When are taxes due?
by Paul Kiel and Jeff Ernsthausen At first glance, July 24, 2015, seems to have been a brutal trading day for Steve Ballmer, the former… Read »Wealthy save billions in taxes by skirting law
by Megan Rose For 50 years, Roe v. Wade shut down the biggest ambitions of the anti-abortion movement. Last summer, the Supreme Court overturned that… Read »States abortion rights in 2023
by Richard A. Webster, Verite Nearly half of Louisiana sheriffs are in violation of a state law regulating the preservation and destruction of public records,… Read »Nearly half Sheriffs in Louisiana are violating public records laws
by Mike Reicher and Lulu Ramadan, The Seattle Times Washington education officials have launched an investigation into the state’s largest network of privately run schools… Read »Washington launches investigation of private special education schools
by Lisa Song As a climate reporter, I was well aware of the growing concern about the gas stoves in people’s homes leaking dangerous pollutants,… Read »Risks of gas stoves and appliances
by Craig Silverman and Ruth Talbot In late 2021, the right-wing site Conservative Beaver published a story falsely claiming the FBI had arrested Pfizer’s CEO… Read »Porn, piracy, fraud: What lurks inside Google’s black box ad empire
by Mark Olalde, Mollie Simon and Alex Mierjeski, video by Gerardo del Valle, Liz Moughon and Mauricio Rodríguez Pons In America’s rush to build the… Read »U.S. groundwater tainted by radioactive waste from Cold War