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Oct 1, 2024 | 
zeit.de | Caroline Scharff |Carla Baum |Jochen Schievink |Stephan Dybus |Max Guther
"Wo ist der verdammte Turnbeutel?" Wie oft wird diese Frage wohl gerade in diesem Moment in Familienhaushalten vom Flur aus in die Wohnung gerufen? Verzweifelt, wütend, gleichzeitig hoffend, dass da jemand ist, der es weiß, der den ohnehin schon anstrengenden Prozess des Die-Wohnung-Verlassens beschleunigt, sodass man wenigstens noch annährend pünktlich kommt. Selbst in den ordentlichsten Haushalten hält mit dem ersten Kind das Chaos Einzug.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
propublica.org | Lisa Song |Max Guther |Maya Miller
Selling a Mirage The plastics industry has heralded a type of chemical recycling it claims could replace new shopping bags and candy wrappers with old ones — but not much is being recycled at all, and this method won’t curb the crisis.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
propublica.org | Tony Schick |Mark Olalde |Lisa Song |Max Guther
Before building dams on the Columbia River, the U.S. guaranteed the tribes of the Pacific Northwest salmon forever. But the system it created to prevent the extinction of salmon has failed, and a way of life is ending. This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Oregon Public Broadcasting. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
propublica.org | Lisa Song |Max Guther |Rob Davis |Matthew Kish
About the MathOur article is focused on pyrolysis because it’s the most popular form of chemical recycling. Other types of chemical recycling technologies have their own strengths and weaknesses. There are different variations of pyrolysis, and steam crackers produce a range of ethylene and propylene yields. Companies are secretive about their operations.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
propublica.org | Renee Dudley |Doris Burke |Lisa Song |Max Guther
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Microsoft hired Andrew Harris for his extraordinary skill in keeping hackers out of the nation’s most sensitive computer networks. In 2016, Harris was hard at work on a mystifying incident in which intruders had somehow penetrated a major U.S. tech company. Defend the facts. Support independent journalism by donating to ProPublica.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
propublica.org | Anna Clark |Sarahbeth Maney |Lisa Song |Max Guther
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. When Gretchen Whitmer campaigned for Michigan governor in 2018, she took aim at Michigan’s bottled water industry — and the state policy that gave it unfettered access to free water.
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May 24, 2024 | 
propublica.org | Lisa Song |Max Guther |Anna Clark |Sarahbeth Maney
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This story is exempt from our Creative Commons license until July 19. After years of reporting on forever chemicals, ProPublica reporter Sharon Lerner had one question that still nagged at her.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
propublica.org | Abrahm Lustgarten |Mark Olalde |Lisa Song |Max Guther
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This article is an excerpt from the book “On The Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America,” about climate migration in the U.S. For more, see abrahm.com. Another great American migration is now underway, this time forced by the warming that is altering how and where people can live. For now, it’s just a trickle.
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Jun 30, 2023 | 
winonadailynews.com | Max Guther
JOB: Unemployed grass cutterLOCATION: El Dorado Correctional Facility, El Dorado, KansasMONTHLY INCOME: $0For years, when I first got locked up, my mother was the only person I had to take care of me. She was barely able to, but she sent me $20 whenever she could. Then in 2017, she was killed. At one point, I was on the linework crew; I cut the grass for the facility. I was getting $15 every month.
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Jun 30, 2023 | 
news-shield.com | Max Guther
JOB: Welder, GED tutor, Bible copierLOCATION: California Institution for Men, Chino, CaliforniaMONTHLY INCOME: About $5Every inmate is supposed to have a certain amount of state-issued clothing, and they are supposed to keep their clothing clean and decent, but the laundry system does not work here. Men who work in laundry sell laundry clothes, and I cannot get my full state issue. If a person has a job in the kitchen, they will sell the food, but this creates a problem for other inmates.
