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
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
InvestigationEnvironment, Justice The Scorched-Earth Legal Strategy Corporations Are Using to Silence Critics Energy and extractive industry giants are targeting environmentalists with racketeering charges. Sasha ChavkinThe InterceptDecember 16, 2022
InvestigationEnvironment Desert Ruins In the US-Mexico borderlands, Customs and Border Protection activities continue to harm the desert wilderness—and the land management agencies seem helpless to stop it. Adam FedermanSierra MagazineDecember 12, 2022