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The #EPA Has Done Nearly Everything It Can to Clean Up This Town. It Hasn’t Worked.
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Despite years of air monitoring, inspections and millions in penalties for petrochemical plants, the air in Calvert City, #Kentucky, remains polluted.

The EPA’s inability to fix it is an indictment of the laws governing clean air, experts say.

#Pollution #Environment #Climate #CleanAir #CleanWater #Cancer #News #Science #Law

https://www.propublica.org/article/calvert-city-kentucky-epa-pollution-westlake-sacrifice-zones?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Trump’s Lawyers Didn’t Disclose Proposal to Put Up Full $464 Million Bond
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An appeals court reduced Trump’s bond by more than 60% after his attorneys claimed it was a “practical impossibility” to pay the full amount.

Their failure to disclose a proposal from a billionaire financier may have violated #ethics rules.

#Trump #Law #NewYork #News #Courts

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-bond-disclosure-appeals-court-hankey?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Since billionaire Jeff Yass is in the news for his involvement in #TikTok and #Trump's #TruthSocial, here's our deep-dive look into the #GOP megadonor who avoided $1 billion in #taxes and poured that money into campaigns to cut taxes and support #election deniers.

https://www.propublica.org/article/jeff-yass-susquehanna-tiktok-tax-avoidance

#Chevron Will Pay Record Fines for #Oil Spills in #California
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The penalties come after an investigation by The Desert Sun and ProPublica found that companies were profiting from illegal spills and California’s oversight of the industry was lax.

#environment #Pollution #News

https://www.propublica.org/article/chevron-will-pay-record-fines-for-california-oil-spills?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Help ProPublica investigate access to mental health care.

If you are a mental health provider and live in one of the 18 unshaded states below, please get in touch to help us reach our goal of connecting with care professionals in every state:

https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/tell-us-about-mental-health-care-access

#Health #HealthCare #MentalHealth #Doctors #News

#Senate Judiciary Committee Has Yet to Subpoena Harlan Crow or Leonard Leo
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More than two months after authorizing subpoenas for two key figures in the Supreme Court’s ethics crisis, Senate #Democrats have yet to issue them.

#HarlanCrow #LeonardLeo #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #News

https://www.propublica.org/article/why-hasnt-senate-judiciary-subpoenaed-harlan-crow-leonard-leo-scotus?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

In Crisis, She Went to an #Illinois Facility. Two Years Later, She Still Isn’t Able to Leave.
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The state of Illinois is asking for the end of court oversight of its system of care for people with developmental #disabilities. But some advocates say it’s too soon.

#MentalHealth #Health #HealthCare #News

https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-crisis-institution-placement?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Senate Investigation “Casts Fresh Doubt” About the Validity of Harlan Crow’s Yacht Tax Deductions
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In their extensive probe, Senate investigators found evidence to suggest that billionaire GOP megadonor Crow has made repeated misrepresentations to the U.S. government.

ProPublica revealed the #tax maneuvers in a previous story.

#Taxes #IncomeTax #HarlanCrow #ClarenceThomas #IRS #News

https://www.propublica.org/article/senate-probe-casts-doubt-harlan-crow-yacht-tax-deductions?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Here's our report from July that revealed how Crow had slashed his tax bill by cruising on his superyacht with friends, including SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas:

https://www.propublica.org/article/harlan-crow-slashed-tax-bill-clarence-thomas-superyacht

#Police Departments Are Turning to #AI to Sift Through Millions of Hours of Unreviewed Body-Cam Footage
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Body camera #video equivalent to 25 million copies of #Barbie is collected but rarely reviewed.

Some cities are looking to new #technology to examine this stockpile of footage to identify problematic officers and patterns of behavior.

https://www.propublica.org/article/police-body-cameras-video-ai-law-enforcement?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Read all our coverage of the failed promise of police body cameras:
https://www.propublica.org/series/black-boxes

Read our original investigation with Anchorage Daily News:

https://www.propublica.org/article/two-women-died-on-alaska-mayors-property-no-one-ever-charged

#Police Say They Won’t Reopen Case of #Alaska Woman Found Dead on Mayor’s Property
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In an open letter, the Kotzebue police chief said state investigators reviewed the case of Jennifer Kirk’s 2018 death and found no new leads.

But parts of the letter contradict previous information the department has released about the case.

#News #CriminalJustice #Crime #Murder #Native #NativeAmerican

https://www.propublica.org/article/police-wont-reopen-case-of-kotzebue-alaska-woman-found-dead-on-mayors-property?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

We Found That #Landlords Could Be Using Algorithms to Fix #Rent Prices. Now Lawmakers Want to Make the Practice Illegal.
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After a ProPublica investigation, U.S. senators introduced a bill to curb “price fixing” linked to rent-setting software.

“Setting prices with an algorithm is no different from doing it over cigars and whiskey in a private club,” said one sponsor.

#News #Housing #Homes #Apartments #Houses

https://www.propublica.org/article/senators-introduce-legislation-stop-landlords-algorithm-price-fixing?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Body-worn cameras were supposed to deliver a revolution in transparency and accountability to policing.

But in cities across America, the revolution never arrived.

Read all of our coverage here:
https://www.propublica.org/series/black-boxes

ProPublica's Eric Umansky joined The Daily this morning to talk about the failed promise of #police body cameras.

Listen here or wherever you get your #podcasts:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/29/podcasts/the-daily/police-body-cameras.html

The American Museum of Natural History to Close Exhibits Displaying #Native American Belongings
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The change is in response to new federal regulations that went into effect this month following reporting by ProPublica on institutional failures to return #NativeAmerican remains and sacred objects to tribes.

#News #Museum #NYC #NewYork #Repatriation #NAGPRA

https://www.propublica.org/article/american-museum-natural-history-to-close-native-american-exhibits?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Check out the full Repatriation Project, which examines the long-delayed return of Native remains, here:

https://www.propublica.org/series/the-repatriation-project

#FTC Orders Maker of TurboTax to Cease “Deceptive” #Advertising
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The federal agency, after an investigation prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, blasted #Intuit for misleading customers about its “free” tax-filing program and directed the company to take specific steps to fix its ads.

#Taxes #IRS #IncomeTax #TurboTax #News

https://www.propublica.org/article/ftc-intuit-turbotax-cease-deceptive-advertising-free-filing-taxes?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

DOJ Blasts Law Enforcement’s Uvalde Shooting Response in New Report, Calls for Agencies to Prioritize Training
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In a long-awaited report, the Justice Department found widespread failures in the official response to the 2022 shooting. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said that had officers followed accepted practices, “lives would have been saved.”

#Uvalde #Texas #MassShooting #DOJ

https://www.propublica.org/article/doj-report-blasts-law-enforcement-response-uvalde-shooting?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post