NewsBusiness, Environment Starbucks Promised a Recyclable Drink Lid. Don’t Believe the Hype. As the waste piles up and the myth of recycling breaks down, PR about the sustainability of plastics has helped keep sales strong. Sharon LernerThe InterceptApril 19, 2019
NewsEnvironment, Politics A Former Oil-Industry Lobbyist Is Now In Charge of America’s Public Lands Questions about conflicts of interest and transparency shadow newly confirmed Interior Secretary David Bernhardt. Adam FedermanThe NationApril 12, 2019
InvestigationBusiness A Harvard Professor Filed a Shareholder Lawsuit to Restrict Shareholder Rights The legal team includes a Trump nominee and an attorney who has railed against unions, trans rights and Black Lives Matter. Susan AntillaThe InterceptApril 9, 2019
NewsBusiness, Environment How the Media Launders Fossil Fuel Industry Propaganda Through Branded Content Native advertising, as it’s called, has spread misinformation on everything from the “superfood” moringa to Thai seafood slavery, and has raised serious questions about journalistic ethics. Sharon LernerThe InterceptApril 3, 2019
BackstoryJustice The Backstory: Saki Knafo Saki Knafo is a Type Investigations reporter who recently finished a two-year-long investigation into criminal justice in the South Bronx. Saki KnafoMarch 28, 2019
NewsBusiness, Environment New Jersey is Making Companies Pay for Toxic Contamination — Shining a New Light on a Little-Known Offender New Jersey laid financial responsibility for dealing with PFAS contamination squarely at the feet of the chemical companies responsible for it. Sharon LernerThe InterceptMarch 27, 2019
NewsPolitics Still Funding the Confederacy Years of taxpayer money has kept Confederate cemeteries in pristine condition. Can there be true equity for historic African-American burial grounds? Brian PalmerRichmond Free PressMarch 26, 2019
InvestigationPolitics, World Right Makes Might Long before Trump came on the scene, key congressional Republicans had been sidling up to nativist and authoritarian leaders across the globe. Sarah PosnerNew RepublicMarch 25, 2019
InvestigationBusiness, Justice, World Inside the Surveillance Program IBM Built for Rodrigo Duterte IBM partnered with Philippine law enforcement despite evidence of police complicity in death squads. George JosephThe InterceptMarch 20, 2019
NewsEnvironment, Politics Young People Feel Betrayed by Adults Over the Climate Crisis. Today, They’re Going on Strike. “They think threatening us with arrest and suspension will stop us, but it won’t,” said Tierney. “The climate crisis is way more frightening than that.” Sharon LernerThe InterceptMarch 15, 2019