Joe Rubin
Investigative Reporter
Investigative Reporter
Joe Rubin is an award-winning investigative reporter who enjoys digging through documents and exposing waste fraud and abuse on the local and national level. Joe’s TV investigative reports have won multiple awards including a 2016 investigative Emmy for an investigation into a water treatment experiment gone awry. In 2015, Rubin’s Nation Investigative Fund-supported story about a water meter project turned $500 million boondoggle was awarded 1st place for in the weekly investigative category by the California Newspaper Association. Joe’s produced documentary projects for PBS Frontline/World, Retro Report/New York Times, and the Center for Investigative Reporting. Rubin has reported for numerous NPR programs including Morning Edition, Marketplace and PRI’s the World.
California Assembly Bill 2963, which is to be heard this week by the Senate Health Committee, aims to ensure there are no more cases like Exide or Mangan Park.
Why would Disneyland be part of an effort to defeat a bill that requires reporting of blood-lead levels high enough to produce heart disease and serious brain disorders?
Battery recycling is considered one of the most potentially hazardous industries. Yet Vernon’s Exide workers were routinely being poisoned with nearly nonexistent intervention by Cal/OSHA.
Joe Rubin investigated the Exide plant as a data reporting fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.
Are California regulators in denial about the dangers of lead? The state's response to previous lead-poisoning crises raise plenty of doubts.