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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.
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2 weeks ago | 
propublica.org | Tony Schick |Monica Samayoa |K. Rambo |Sharon Lerner
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Oregon Public Broadcasting. Sign up for Dispatches to get our stories in your inbox every week. Less than two years ago, the administration of President Joe Biden announced what tribal leaders hailed as an unprecedented commitment to the Native tribes whose ways of life had been devastated by federal dam-building along the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.
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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 The Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn a legal complaint filed last year against the GEO Group, a major donor to President Donald Trump that has more than $1 billion in contracts with the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.
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4 weeks ago | 
propublica.org | Rob Davis |Matthew Kish |Sarahbeth Maney |Sharon Lerner
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.
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1 month ago | 
propublica.org | Matthew Kish |Rob Davis |Sarahbeth Maney |Sharon Lerner
This article was produced in partnership with The Oregonian/OregonLive. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. In May 2015, President Barack Obama gave a big speech about dropping trade barriers with other nations. He delivered it on a sunny day at Nike’s world headquarters in Oregon.
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1 month ago | 
propublica.org | Rob Davis |Sarahbeth Maney |Sharon Lerner |Matthew Kish
This article was produced by ProPublica in partnership with The Oregonian/OregonLive. Sign up for Dispatches, to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. In Phnom Penh’s hot season, when the Cambodian capital’s sweltering, subtropical air routinely soars to 100 degrees, more workers than usual visited the infirmaries inside a factory that made baby clothes for Nike, the world’s largest athletic apparel brand.
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2 months ago | 
propublica.org | Rob Davis |Sarahbeth Maney |Sharon Lerner |Matthew Kish
This article was produced by ProPublica in partnership with The Oregonian/OregonLive. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. The world’s largest sports apparel maker says its suppliers pay workers 1.9 times the minimum wage on average, based on partial data for the workforce. A payroll sheet for one Cambodian factory reveals few people making that much, even after years on the job.
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2 months ago | 
propublica.org | Mark Olalde |Eli Hager |Sharon Lerner |Robert Faturechi
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. A top official in the Department of Labor this week informed all staff members that they could face criminal charges if they speak to journalists, former employees or others about agency business.
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2 months ago | 
propublica.org | Eli Hager |Sharon Lerner |Robert Faturechi |Mark Olalde
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The clear-cutting across the federal government under President Donald Trump has been dramatic, with mass terminations, the suspension of decades-old programs and the neutering of entire agencies.
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2 months ago | 
propublica.org | Sharon Lerner |Robert Faturechi |Mark Olalde |Alec MacGillis
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Environmentalists have long faced harassment, imprisonment and other forms of retribution in some parts of the world. The U.S. has largely been an exception, a place where people and organizations can freely and safely pursue efforts to protect human health and nature — sometimes working hand in hand with the government.
