The medical examiner hasn’t announced the cause of death for a 58-year-old man who died Monday, but confirmed to HuffPost that he tested positive for COVID-19.
Environment & Health
The Coronavirus Has Spread to the US Marshals’ Detention Empire
Exclusive reporting reveals five people in federal detention have tested positive for COVID-19.
Police Are Trying To Free Inmates At Risk Of Coronavirus. Why Are Judges Blocking Them?
Judges are dangerously behind the curve in supporting compassionate release and other plans to reduce the jail population.
Paid by the Pipeline
A Canadian Energy Company Bought an Oregon Sheriff’s Unit
‘This Is the Wild West Out Here’
How Washington is bending over backward for mining companies in Nevada at the expense of environmental rules.
US listed climate activist group as ‘extremists’ alongside mass killers
DHS listed activists engaged in non-violent civil disobedience targeting oil industry alongside white supremacists in documents.
‘Dump it down the drain’
How contaminants from prescription-drug factories pollute waterways.
The Last of the Climate Deniers Hold On
Propped by an industry-funded network, demanded by the Trump administration, the last vestiges of climate deniers in academia linger as millennials protest inaction.
Why Prisoners Get the Doctors No One Else Wants
Even after a major class action suit required Illinois to revamp its prison healthcare system, doctors whose alleged neglect resulted in major injury or death still remain on the prison system payroll.
The Destruction Caused by the Border Wall Is Worse Than You Think
Border Patrol agents tear though the Arizona desert.
Waiting for Tearah
“Waiting for Tearah” follows a family’s struggle to navigate America’s mental health care system, and explores the often unseen costs of care.
Calm Before the Storm
How the American nuclear industry downplays the threat of climate-induced flooding.
How the FBI Targeted Environmental Activists in Domestic Terror Investigations
Protesters were characterized as a threat to national security in what one calls an attempt to criminalize their actions.
When Solitary Confinement Is A Death Sentence
Mariam Abdullah died by suicide after the teen spent much of the final two years of her life in solitary confinement.
How Science Got Trampled in the Rush to Drill in the Arctic
The Trump administration pried open an environmental ‘jewel’ for oil and gas exploration — by distorting the work of its own scientific experts.
Waste Only
How the plastics industry is fighting to keep polluting the world.
The Hidden Battle Over America’s Wilderness
A sustained effort to weaken federal authority over public land could undermine protections for threatened and endangered species.
A Desperate Bargain
Throughout the country parents of children with severe mental illness feel pressured to give up custody to obtain treatment
A Tale of Two Toxic Cities
The EPA’s Bungled Response to an Air Pollution Crisis Exposes a Toxic Racial Divide
Expecting Care
How Texas is failing foster kids and contributing to an alarming teen pregnancy rate