InvestigationBusiness, Justice IBM Used NYPD Footage to Develop Technology IBM created features to search camera footage for images of people by hair color, facial hair, and skin tone. George Joseph & Kenneth LippThe InterceptSeptember 6, 2018
NewsBusiness, Labor At Hearing for Bronx Trash Hauler, More Questions About Safety and Oversight Unregistered employees. Dangerously long driving schedules. Sanitation Salvage’s bid last week to have its suspension lifted produced more damning findings and fresh questions about why it took regulators so long to act. Kiera FeldmanProPublicaSeptember 5, 2018
InvestigationJustice, Politics The ‘Anti-Catholic’ Playbook A secret network of right-wing activists has spent millions attacking questions on abortion or LGBT rights as anti-religious bigotry. Sarah PosnerThe NationSeptember 5, 2018
InvestigationBusiness, Environment, Labor The Forest Service Is Silencing Women Women in the Forest Service have tried to bring justice to those who have discriminated against them. But the system is set up to make their complaints go away. Kathryn JoyceOutsideAugust 29, 2018
NewsBusiness, Labor Embattled Garbage Hauler Co-Owns Dump With Person Expelled From Trash Industry A ProPublica review found that the agency that oversees New York City’s commercial trash industry may have overlooked another potential impropriety involving Sanitation Salvage. Kiera FeldmanProPublicaAugust 28, 2018
InvestigationBusiness, Environment, Health, Politics Chemours Lobbied EPA To Avert Use of Natural Refrigerants Chemours, which had spun off from DuPont in 2015, wanted EPA’s help ensuring a “level playing field” against natural competitors. Sharon LernerThe InterceptAugust 27, 2018
NewsBusiness, Labor Sanitation Salvage Ordered to Halt Trash Collections The Business Integrity Commission suspended the license of one of New York’s biggest garbage haulers after it was involved in two fatal accidents and a spate of collisions. Kiera FeldmanProPublicaAugust 24, 2018
InvestigationBusiness, Politics Will Shareholders Lose the Right to Sue? A top SEC official says companies should be allowed to force shareholders into arbitration; advocates call it a blow to corporate accountability. Susan AntillaThe InterceptAugust 21, 2018
NewsBusiness, Labor “Yo, Take the Rap for Me”: More Trouble for a Garbage Hauler This time, an unlicensed employee was behind the wheel of a Sanitation Salvage truck when it smashed head-on into a sedan on a Bronx street. Kiera FeldmanProPublicaAugust 20, 2018
InvestigationBusiness, Environment, Health Worse Than Lead? The chemical industry strikes again, shifting from lead to flame retardants that also sicken and kill. Jamie Lincoln KitmanThe NationAugust 15, 2018