BackstoryEnvironment, Immigration, Journalism, Politics The Backstory: Adam Federman, Tanvi Misra, and Kathryn Joyce How Reporters Can Prepare for the Second Trump Administration Paco AlvarezJanuary 17, 2025
InvestigationEnvironment, Politics Trump’s Greenland Problem As the president-elect’s call to buy—or take—a sovereign country moves from punchline to possibility, a look at the real stakes of the Arctic’s mounting cold war. Adam FedermanIn These TimesJanuary 16, 2025
InvestigationEnvironment How the Renewable Energy Boom Is Remaking the American West In Nevada, plans are moving ahead for transmission lines, solar farms, geothermal plants and more in the name of fighting climate change. Yet even among environmental groups and government officials, the projects are controversial. Jimmy TobiasInside Climate NewsDecember 15, 2024
InvestigationEnvironment A Slippery Slope Oil giants and the incoming Trump administration are ready to spark a new drilling boom on Alaska’s North Slope Adam FedermanSierra MagazineDecember 9, 2024
InvestigationEnvironment, Politics If Trump Wins the Election, U.S. Parks and Wildlife Face a New Age of Mining As president, Trump would dramatically weaken environmental protections and remake America’s public lands. Adam Federman & Jimmy TobiasThe GuardianSeptember 28, 2024
InvestigationEnvironment How the U.S. Government Began Its Decade-Long Campaign Against the Anti-Pipeline Movement Newly released documents show the FBI monitoring anti-Keystone protesters much earlier than previously known. Young Native activists were among its first targets. Adam FedermanGristFebruary 14, 2024
InvestigationEnvironment, Justice The Climate Crisis Is Pushing Washington’s Prisons to the Brink Why not let people out? Sarah Sax & Christopher BlackwellHigh Country NewsNovember 1, 2023
InvestigationEnvironment, Politics The New Cold War in the Arctic Amid rising geopolitical tensions, the U.S. is expanding its military presence in Greenland, increasing the risk of something going very wrong. Adam FedermanIn These TimesOctober 30, 2023
InvestigationEnvironment Extreme Heat Will Take an Unequal Toll on Tribal Jails Decades of inadequate funding and rising temperatures are putting Indigenous detainees at risk. Joseph Lee, Jessie Blaeser & Chad SmallGristMay 10, 2023
InvestigationEnvironment, Justice How the FBI Used ‘Cop City’ Protests to Snoop on Activists in Chicago Internal FBI documents indicate a larger federal law enforcement assessment related to “Anarchist extremism” and domestic terrorism. Adam FedermanGristMarch 23, 2023