Who’s Afraid of the IRS? Not Facebook.
The Facebook pavilion at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.Pierre Teyssot/ZUMA Press This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. In March 2008, as Facebook was speeding…
Big Oil Wants to Dump More Wastewater Into Rivers. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
An oil refinery in Texas./Getty This piece was originally published in Grist and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. For more than six months, twin brothers Ronald and Donald Schweitzer have watched large amounts of salty wastewater bubble up from the ground in their wheat field. The “saltwater purge” has killed three…
Harvard Alumni Are Turning Up the Heat on Fossil Fuel Divestment
The Boston Globe/Getty In late November, hundreds of protesters stormed the field of the Yale Bowl during the annual Harvard-Yale football game, sprinting from both sidelines in the final minutes of halftime. Chanting “fossil fuels have got to go” as well as “OK boomer,” the rowdy crowd, bearing beer cans and vape pens, delayed the game for an hour…
New Emails Reveal that the Trump Administration Manipulated Wildfire Science to Promote Logging
An aerial view of a neighborhood destroyed by the Camp Fire on November 15, 2018 in Paradise, California.Justin Sullivan/Getty This piece was originally published in the Guardian and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Political appointees at the Interior Department have sought to play up climate pollution from California wildfires while downplaying emissions from…
Is BlackRock Going Green or Just Greenwashing?
This piece was originally published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. On Tuesday, January 14, the New York Times ran a story in its “Dealbook” business section that contained some startling news. Larry Fink, the founder and chief executive officer of the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, announced that his…
These Emails Show a Trump Official Helping Her Former Chemical Industry Colleagues
The Department of Agriculture building in Washington, DC.Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/AP Images This story was published originally by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. In 2017, Dow Chemical scored a long-sought-after…