Lisa Song

1 week ago | truthout.org | Sharon Lerner |Anton Woronczuk |Lisa Song

The complaint filed under the Biden administration alleged over 1,000 employee uses of the chemical without proper protection. By Sharon Lerner & Lisa Song , ProPublica Published June 14, 2025 Imprisoned immigrants are seen at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Adelanto Detention Facility on September 6, 2016, in Adelanto, California.DAVID MCNEW / AFP via Getty Images This story was originally published by ProPublica.

2 weeks ago | propublica.org | Sharon Lerner |Lisa Song |Tony Schick |Monica Samayoa

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn a legal complaint filed last year against the GEO Group, a major donor to President Donald Trump that has more than $1 billion in contracts with the administration to run private prisons and ICE detention facilities.

2 months ago | propublica.org | Chris Bing |Avi Asher-Schapiro |Amy Yurkanin |Lisa Song

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Four days before Donald Trump’s inauguration, financial technology startup Ramp published a pitch for how to tackle wasteful government spending.

2 months ago | cascadepbs.org | Lisa Song

Hazardous waste removal at a Seattle lab has stopped after the feds failed to renew several services, which could delay research on endangered salmon.

2 months ago | seattletimes.com | Lisa Song

Federal scientists responsible for monitoring the health of West Coast fisheries are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Department of Commerce failed to renew their lab’s contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT and building maintenance. Trash is piling up at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, staffers told ProPublica.