Selected Reporting

A nine-story investigation into the sites of some of the worst environmental injustices in the US: prisons. The series informed the Environmental Health in Prisons Act and prompted the EPA to add prisons to its former EJ Screen mapping tool.

How public officials are propping up a Bitcoin boom that threatens water and energy systems, including the first published whistleblower account from inside the nation’s largest cryptomine.

Inside a statewide campaign that displaces blame for the fossil fuel industry’s ravages onto the far right’s favored scapegoats.

Audit logs obtained by the Observer show police from 18 agencies across 10 states ran at least 117 immigration-related searches of one Texas city’s Flock camera data.

Amid a water crisis, the city declined to release records on the Bitcoin mine’s usage — records I had previously obtained showing 11,563,000 gallons consumed from May to August 2025.

Beyond the grid failures: Texans working through PTSD-like responses to the freeze, and what climate trauma does to a state that refuses to prepare.

As the Line 3 fight intensified, one toxic byproduct of the pipeline’s construction went largely escaped public scrutiny: sexual assaults and harassment incidents linked to Line 3 workers.

The Esto’k Gna tribe vowed to protect sacred sites, including a 154-year-old cemetery, threatened by President Donald Trump’s border wall. Winner of a First Amendment Award and a National Native Media Award.

One family’s ordeal in ICE detention, illustrating the broader effects of U.S. immigration policy. Winner of a First Amendment Award and a National Native Media Award.

Part of Truthout’s “Despair and Disparity” series on the uneven burdens of COVID-19, which earned the 2020 Izzy Award for independent journalism.

Part of an In These Times cover series: how Latino advocacy groups turned Trump’s own rhetoric into a 174 percent increase in early-voting participation.