Open source research methods are often seen associated with conflict reporting, but these methods can also be applied to environmental journalism. Find out how we uncovered the identify of a wildlife trafficker that was selling protected species on Facebook: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/06...

Rhino Horn, Leopard Skin and Tiger Claws Sold Openly on Facebook - bellingcat

Bellingcat uncovers a Myanmar wildlife trafficker linked to endangered species sales, prompting account removals by Meta, WeChat, TikTok and YouTube.

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We have launched two new tools to help workers fight back against union-busting: 🔍 Search consultants, law firms & attorneys hired to crush organizing campaigns (search.laborlab.us) 📊 Calculate the cost of your employer's anti-union campaign (calculator.laborlab.us) laborlab.us/new-union-bu...

New Union-Buster Search Tool and Cost Calculator Offer Organizing Firepower to Workers - LaborLab

LaborLab, a workers’ rights watchdog, is launching new tools to give workers a clearer picture of what they’re up against when they organize and shine a brighter light on the $1.7 billion union-avoida...

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Over and over, 3M scientist Kris Hansen found PFOS, a chemical her company made, in people’s blood. Her bosses doubted her work: How could it be everywhere? Finally, she found one batch of blood samples without PFOS — but with it came a devastating revelation. Full episode: propub.li/4gVmPRQ

The group seeking to end Duke Energy's monopoly in St. Petersburg, Florida, has filed paperwork with the city to begin gathering signatures for a ballot measure to let voters decide whether to switch to a city-run utility.

"Dump Duke" files paperwork for St. Pete ballot measure

A St. Pete group filed paperwork for a ballot measure on Duke Energy as the city studies whether to switch to a city-run utility.

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we've got a reporter on the ground in Gary, Indiana where an impoverished minority community went without power for 2+ weeks. the climate future is here, it's just unevenly distributed prospect.org/2026/08/28/g...

Gary, Indiana, Is America’s Latest Climate Victim - The American Prospect

This community has already faced structural racism and disinvestment. A two-week blackout unleashed a humanitarian disaster.

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Gavin Newsom is trying to cap liability for utility companies that cause wildfires. A front group called "Wildfire Victims First" pushing for the bailout has "victim" members who get payouts from the industry and is run by Newsom's former comms director. Story by @jamesjbaratta.bsky.social.

Wildfire Survivors Push Back Against Newsom-Led Utility Bailout - The American Prospect

At the end of the legislative session, the Democratic governor and presidential hopeful wants to cap liability for power companies that start deadly fires.

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From me: Medicare for All without ending the corporate consolidation of health care providers will just funnel cash to middlemen and extractors and private equity. A new paper explains just how concentrated Big Medicine is and what it will take to break them up. prospect.org/2026/08/27/h...

Health Care Reform Needs More Than Universal Coverage - The American Prospect

Medicare for All without tackling the extreme consolidation in health care would just funnel money to corporate behemoths, a new report states.

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"CENTCOM needs to stop blacklisting journalists and tell the public who is on the blacklist and why they were placed there," FPF's Seth Stern told @theintercept.com's @nickturse.bsky.social. "Whoever was behind the blacklist should be blacklisted from government employment."

Pentagon Spokesperson Admits There’s a Secret Blacklist of Journalists

When pressed about the Iran war, a CENTCOM press official threatened to put an Intercept reporter on a “list of people to disregard.”

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Argentina is basking in a state of celebratory grace, having survived weeks of near heartbreak, defeated England and reached the chance for a second straight World Cup crown. “During the games you fall to the floor, cry desperately, and then all of a sudden you’re crying of joy,” said one fan.

Argentines, Already ‘Losing Their Minds,’ Brace for World Cup Final

A championship victory would be pure elation, but Argentina is already basking in a state of grace after a win against England and a monthlong fever dream.

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on our new form of airborne toxic event: heatmap.news/daily/worryi...

What Worries Me Most About This Wildfire Smoke

We didn’t know days like this could happen. Then we learned how bad they really are.

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Leaders around the world are banking on tech advances to solve climate change. One leading idea involves capturing carbon pollution from the air and then burying it underground forever. It sounds practical. Here’s why there's no conceivable way it can work: (THREAD)

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.

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Breaking News from @theathleticfc.bsky.social: Lionel Messi scored three goals in Argentina's win over Algeria, tying the all-time men's World Cup scoring record. This is Messi's first-ever World Cup hat-trick, in his sixth tournament. nyti.ms/4ecXzXk

Important reminders: • If you're turning in your mail ballot today, go for a ballot dropbox over a mailbox: opendata.dc.gov/datasets/DCG... • If you must use the USPS, request a hand stamp at a post office. As long as it's postmarked June 16, and arrives by June 26, your ballot should be accepted.

The 51st@51st.news · 3mo ago

Still planning to vote today? Don't miss our voter guide — which includes what to know about everything on your ballot.

raul claros, a los angeles city council candidate, has extensive ties to socalgas--$150,000 in contributions and sponsorships to several of his local organizations over the last decade. you can read more about our findings here: energyandpolicy.org/la-council-c...

Los Angeles City Council candidate holds extensive ties to SoCalGas

Raul Claros, a candidate for LA City Council, founded several groups that collectively have received more than $150,000 from SoCalGas over the past decade.

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My colleagues and I have spent a decade tracking NextEra's sprawling political machine, and how it has used that machine to thwart competitors (including clean ones!), at ratepayers' expense. Essential reading for the NEE/D mega-monopoly merger plans. energyandpolicy.org/nextera-domi...

NextEra’s acquisition of Dominion would bring history of political control, rate increases to Virginia, Carolinas

NextEra contends customers will benefit from the acquisition. Lawmakers and advocates caution NextEra’s long track record of rate increases and scandals.

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“When Xavier Becerra was state attorney general, his office pushed the state Supreme Court to artificially inflate a Black man’s IQ in order to execute him.” theintercept.com/2026/05/19/x...

Xavier Becerra Pushed to Inflate a Black Man’s IQ to Execute Him as California AG

Becerra, a front-runner for California governor, has a history of blocking police accountability and seeking to uphold the death penalty.

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Pepco wants Maryland customers to pay 23% more for electric rates, even as profits rise and Exelon projects higher earnings and dividends. The case is now drawing scrutiny over ROE, affordability, and Pepco’s role in supportive testimony. energyandpolicy.org/pepco-maryla...

The American Prospect@prospect.org · 4mo ago

The Trump administration is building a surveillance network to spy on its own workforce across multiple agencies. It has already given Palantir an initial $3.9 million to do so at the USDA, federal spending disclosures show. buff.ly/8UgEnAI

the results of saturday’s primary elections in louisiana are in, and these same three candidates came out on top. stephanie hilferty and john young in district 1 are headed to a june 27 runoff, while john atkins, who won in district 5, will face democrat james green in november.

Energy and Policy Institute@energyandpolicy.org · 4mo ago

Three Republican candidates fighting for two open District 1 and District 5 seats on the Louisiana PSC this year received substantial support from PSC-regulated entities or orgs, PACs or businesses with ties to those enterprises. https://bit.ly/4eHxaBB

“David Pomerantz, executive director of the Energy and Policy Institute, a nonprofit energy watchdog organization, contends that a NextEra-Dominion deal would hurt utility customers and give one company outsize influence in the utility business.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/b...

NextEra Energy Said to Be in Talks to Acquire Dominion, Creating a Utility Giant

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We are ostensibly a free country and the degree to which we don’t know what is actually going on in a vast network of “camps” on our own soil in the year 2026 is….. something we are probably never going to come close to actually grappling with as a country

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients. (Published Oct. 2024 with @capitolforum.bsky.social)

Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Treatments

When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.

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I wrote about being inundated with AI writing at every turn, unwittingly turning my brain into the AI police, and how shitty AI writing is randomly showing up in my real life outside of the internet www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...

Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain

AI writing is impossible to avoid, is making everything sound the same, and is driving us crazy.

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@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social profiles Adam Hamawy, a combat surgeon who saved Tammy Duckworth's life and did multiple stints in Gaza, who is running for Congress in New Jersey. prospect.org/2026/04/30/p...

Pro-Palestine Super PAC Spending $2 Million to Back Doctor in NJ-12 - The American Prospect

American Priorities is throwing its war chest behind Dr. Adam Hamawy, a combat surgeon whoworked in a Gaza hospital while Israel’s genocide raged outside.

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California’s big three utilities have donated over *$153K* to Xavier Becerra over the course of his career. No other gubernatorial candidates have received that level of campaign funding. energyandpolicy.org/becerra-150k...

Becerra took over $150K from CA utilities as a candidate for Congress, AG

California’s three investor-owned utility monopolies have a lot riding on the outcome of the state’s first open race for governor since 2018, with their soaring electric bills taking center-stage in t...

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The 10 highest-paid utility company executives raked in more than $220 million last year. Meanwhile, utility companies asked for a record $31 billion in rate increases, affecting 81 million customers across the country. Yes: utility CEOs are raking it in while millions struggle to pay their bills.

Utility companies shut off Americans’ power 13.4 million times and gas 1.7 million times in 2024, a federal report said — a newly collected number that consumer advocates say signals a surprisingly high rate of extreme financial distress.

Americans’ electricity was shut off 13 million times in a year, data shows

An advocate called the higher-than-expected numbers “jarring,” and consumer advocates say they signal a surprisingly high rate of extreme financial distress.

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exelon (pepco's parent company) paid their ceo $15.6 million in 2025, a nearly $1 million dollar increase from 2024, despite not meeting their customer satisfaction performance threshold. read more about who is profiting off your utility bill in our latest report: energyandpolicy.org/utility-ceo-...

Utility CEO pay surges amid higher profits, customer struggles

Investor-owned utilities paid their CEOs $622 million in 2025, lowering the bar for bonuses while customers struggled to afford bills.

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Electricity bills are rising, customers are struggling, but guess who is doing just fine?

Utility CEO pay surges amid higher profits, customer struggles

Investor-owned utilities paid their CEOs $622 million in 2025, lowering the bar for bonuses while customers struggled to afford bills.

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