This story was produced as part of a larger project led by Rich Lord, a participant in the 2019 National Fellowship.
Other stories in this series include:
10 ways to protect your family from radon
Lethal and lawless
The radioactive killer
Environment & Climate
This story was produced as part of a larger project led by Will James, a participant in the 2019 National Fellowship.
Other stories in this series include:
Introducing: Outsiders, a story about homelessness
Episode 2: What Happened Here
How researchers discovered radon’s toxic trail.
How Utah’s hands-off approach to radon is putting people at risk.
Asthma is on the rise across the United States, and the problem is particularly grave on reservations.
In California, the world’s fifth-largest economy, an estimated 1 million residents don’t have access to clean, safe drinking water. Many water districts are facing huge challenges.
Low wages and a stagnant housing market have pushed Salinas families to the margins. Advocates say the city’s low-income farmworker community bears the heaviest burden.
Gov. Tom Wolf is proposing a $5.1 million funding boost to the state’s oversight of residential juvenile programs, after Inquirer investigations into child abuse at the nation’s oldest reform school and the state’s failure to detect or stop it.
Roughly three months after its first foray north of the Del Norte County line, Food For People’s Mobile Produce Pantry will become a regular fixture in Klamath.
This story was produced as a project for the 2020 Impact Fund....