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 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 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
InvestigationBusiness, Environment Unstable Ground How thawing permafrost threatens a Biden-supported plan to drill in Alaska's Arctic. Adam FedermanGristOctober 3, 2022
InvestigationEnvironment The Big Thaw Alaska becomes the nation’s first frontier of climate disruption. Adam FedermanSierra MagazineDecember 14, 2021
InvestigationEnvironment Abrupt Permafrost Thaw Has Scientists Worried Adam FedermanSierra MagazineDecember 14, 2021
InvestigationEnvironment, Politics Biden Is Breaking a Promise To Block Drilling on Public Lands The federal government is still signing off on oil and gas leases. Adam FedermanThe Washington PostNovember 19, 2021
InvestigationEnvironment, Politics How Joe Biden’s Green Agenda Threatens the Alaskan Wilderness Donald Trump wanted to put a road through one of the most remote parts of North America. His successor could finish the job. Adam FedermanPolitico MagazineSeptember 17, 2021
InvestigationEnvironment, Politics ‘In the Dark of Night’: Trump’s Interior Chief Snuck Murkowski an 11th-hour Win Interior Secretary David Bernhardt ordered his agency to make novel use of a law to evade conservation restrictions that have blocked development of the Alaskan road to a remote village. Adam FedermanPolitico MagazineMarch 19, 2021
InvestigationEnvironment, Politics The Trump Administration Rushes to Sell Leases in the Arctic Refuge, But How Much Oil Is There? The Interior Department won't release geologic information, raising questions about petroleum potential. Adam FedermanSierra MagazineDecember 7, 2020