Politico Magazine InvestigationEnvironment, Politics Alaska’s Fisheries Are Collapsing. This Congresswoman Is Taking on the Industry She Says Is to Blame. Mary Peltola won her election by campaigning on a platform to save the state’s prized fisheries. A powerful fishing lobby is standing in her way. Adam FedermanPolitico MagazineMarch 3, 2023 InvestigationJustice Andrew Hartzler Wasn’t Allowed To Be Gay on Campus. So He’s Suing. A lawsuit seeks to end an exemption to Title IX that has allowed religious schools to receive lucrative federal funding despite policies that discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. Sarah PosnerPolitico MagazineMay 20, 2022 InvestigationEnvironment, Politics How Joe Biden’s Green Agenda Threatens the Alaskan Wilderness Donald Trump wanted to put a road through one of the most remote parts of North America. His successor could finish the job. Adam FedermanPolitico MagazineSeptember 17, 2021 InvestigationEnvironment, Politics ‘In the Dark of Night’: Trump’s Interior Chief Snuck Murkowski an 11th-hour Win Interior Secretary David Bernhardt ordered his agency to make novel use of a law to evade conservation restrictions that have blocked development of the Alaskan road to a remote village. Adam FedermanPolitico MagazineMarch 19, 2021 InvestigationEnvironment, Politics Trump Administration Eyes Speedy Permit for Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Seismic Tests “This is unrealistically fast-tracked,” a DOI employee who has reviewed the application told POLITICO. Adam FedermanPolitico MagazineOctober 4, 2020 InvestigationEnvironment, Politics The Man Determined to Deliver Trump’s Alaskan Oil Promise A political appointee at the Department of Interior has played a key, and sometimes controversial, role in opening a pristine wildlife refuge to drilling. Adam FedermanPolitico MagazineAugust 8, 2020 InvestigationBusiness, Environment, Politics ‘This Is the Wild West Out Here’ How Washington is bending over backward for mining companies in Nevada at the expense of environmental rules. Adam FedermanPolitico MagazineFebruary 9, 2020 InvestigationEnvironment, Politics How Science Got Trampled in the Rush to Drill in the Arctic The Trump administration pried open an environmental ‘jewel’ for oil and gas exploration. But in its push to get started, it has ignored and distorted the work of its own experts. Adam FedermanPolitico MagazineJuly 26, 2019 InvestigationJustice How Washington Winks at Violent Discipline of Special Needs Kids The Department of Education is supposed to keep track of such incidents, but it lets schools slide on reporting. Critics fear the situation will get worse under Betsy DeVos. Ben HattemPolitico MagazineNovember 29, 2017 InvestigationPolitics King Rex A stock baron goes all in on Missouri politics. And no, he doesn’t like taxes. Lee FangPolitico MagazineJuly 1, 2014 1 2
InvestigationEnvironment, Politics Alaska’s Fisheries Are Collapsing. This Congresswoman Is Taking on the Industry She Says Is to Blame. Mary Peltola won her election by campaigning on a platform to save the state’s prized fisheries. A powerful fishing lobby is standing in her way. Adam FedermanPolitico MagazineMarch 3, 2023
InvestigationJustice Andrew Hartzler Wasn’t Allowed To Be Gay on Campus. So He’s Suing. A lawsuit seeks to end an exemption to Title IX that has allowed religious schools to receive lucrative federal funding despite policies that discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. Sarah PosnerPolitico MagazineMay 20, 2022
InvestigationEnvironment, Politics How Joe Biden’s Green Agenda Threatens the Alaskan Wilderness Donald Trump wanted to put a road through one of the most remote parts of North America. His successor could finish the job. Adam FedermanPolitico MagazineSeptember 17, 2021
InvestigationEnvironment, Politics ‘In the Dark of Night’: Trump’s Interior Chief Snuck Murkowski an 11th-hour Win Interior Secretary David Bernhardt ordered his agency to make novel use of a law to evade conservation restrictions that have blocked development of the Alaskan road to a remote village. Adam FedermanPolitico MagazineMarch 19, 2021
InvestigationEnvironment, Politics Trump Administration Eyes Speedy Permit for Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Seismic Tests “This is unrealistically fast-tracked,” a DOI employee who has reviewed the application told POLITICO. Adam FedermanPolitico MagazineOctober 4, 2020
InvestigationEnvironment, Politics The Man Determined to Deliver Trump’s Alaskan Oil Promise A political appointee at the Department of Interior has played a key, and sometimes controversial, role in opening a pristine wildlife refuge to drilling. Adam FedermanPolitico MagazineAugust 8, 2020
InvestigationBusiness, Environment, Politics ‘This Is the Wild West Out Here’ How Washington is bending over backward for mining companies in Nevada at the expense of environmental rules. Adam FedermanPolitico MagazineFebruary 9, 2020
InvestigationEnvironment, Politics How Science Got Trampled in the Rush to Drill in the Arctic The Trump administration pried open an environmental ‘jewel’ for oil and gas exploration. But in its push to get started, it has ignored and distorted the work of its own experts. Adam FedermanPolitico MagazineJuly 26, 2019
InvestigationJustice How Washington Winks at Violent Discipline of Special Needs Kids The Department of Education is supposed to keep track of such incidents, but it lets schools slide on reporting. Critics fear the situation will get worse under Betsy DeVos. Ben HattemPolitico MagazineNovember 29, 2017
InvestigationPolitics King Rex A stock baron goes all in on Missouri politics. And no, he doesn’t like taxes. Lee FangPolitico MagazineJuly 1, 2014