Reporter covering the environment @ProPublica. Formerly @TheIntercept. Tips welcome : ) DM for Signal. @fastlerner.bsky.social sharon.lerner@propublica.org
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20 May 2024
For years, I wished someone inside 3M could give me insight into the company’s decision to keep making and selling “forever chemicals” even though they were accumulating in people. Then I met Kris Hansen... propublica.org/article/3m-fo…
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6 Feb 2025
Really important story: “We Feel Terrorized”: What EPA Employees Say About the Decision to Stay or Go Under Trump propublica.org/article/epa-w… @fastlerner @pratheekrebala
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19 Jan 2025
.@realDonaldTrump vowed to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, even though most of the money distributed by the law is going to conservative communities.
This includes Sulphur, La., where the grant was supposed to fund roof fixes. From @fastlerner propublica.org/article/trump…
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21 Jan 2025
Storm-Hit Town Voted For Trump, Who Vowed To Overturn Law To Fix Its Homes
#news #environment
@fastlerner reports for @propublica, photos by Annie Flanagan.
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22 Jan 2025
NEW: Donald Trump’s No. 2 Pick for the EPA Represented Companies Accused of Pollution Harm
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22 Jan 2025
Donald Trump’s No. 2 Pick for the EPA Represented Companies Accused of Pollution Harm. "David Fotouhi...played a key part in rolling back climate regulations and water protections while serving as a lawyer in the [EPA] during Trump’s first administration."
Via @fastlerner @propublica
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23 Jan 2025
David Fotouhi, who was tapped by President Trump to be second-in-command of the EPA, is a lawyer who has represented companies accused of harming people and the environment through pollution. @fastlerner propublica.org/article/david…
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17 Jan 2025
The Fate of This Hurricane-Battered Town Is Now in Trump’s Hands. He Has Vowed to Overturn the Law That Could Fix Its Homes. By @fastlerner propublica.org/article/trump…
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18 Dec 2024
.@propublica is hiring a Climate Reporter to hold the powerful accountable for the effects of climate change.
🌎 5 years experience, track record of accountability reporting required
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Apply: grnh.se/7c2cf0166us
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17 Dec 2024
I am hiring for a new position on the @TexasTribune audience team, which will collaborate with our @propublica investigative team.
This role will focus on enhancing audience engagement and fostering partnerships with newsrooms in Texas.
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18 Dec 2024
New Mexico has more than 70,000 unplugged oil and gas wells, a situation so dire that oil companies agreed to work with regulators to find a solution.
After months of negotiations, the industry turned against the bill it helped shape.
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18 Dec 2024
Coal demand continues to grow threatening global climate emission goals: “China remains the largest global coal consumer, responsible for over a third of the world's coal use.” @dwnews dw.com/en/world-coal-use-to-…
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18 Dec 2024
"Committees are not systematically tracking an issue that came up throughout @propublica's reporting...delays and denials of procedures, like dilation and curettage, which are used to empty the uterus during miscarriages to avoid hemorrhage and infection."
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4 Dec 2024
Mississippi Today is hiring reporters for a new desk, led by me, to cover the many inspiring, gut-wrenching, profound, absurd, delightful, layered, deeply human stories of my home, Jackson, MS. Please share! mississippitoday.org/2024/11…
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3 Dec 2024
Formaldehyde - the poster child for our problems refillable chemicals. The EPA will come out with its final health assessment this month...
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3 Dec 2024
will the Trump administration use it to protect us from formaldehyde (which is how it's supposed to work)? If the past is any guide, the answer is no
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In which case the decades t-mobile effort to rein in this extremely widespread carcinogen will be set back yet again
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3 Dec 2024
INVESTIGATION: Formaldehyde Increases Your Cancer Risk No Matter Where you Live. By @fastlerner @A_L propublica.org/article/forma…
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3 Dec 2024
Right now you’re likely breathing in a tiny bit of formaldehyde, which can cause breathing problems and cancer more than any other chemical in the air. For the past year, the EPA has been working to regulate its use. Here's why that's proven to be tough 🧵
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3 Dec 2024
6/ Even using that underestimated cancer risk, which is roughly 4x too low, my colleagues and I found that the cancer risk from formaldehyde in outdoor air is elevated across the country. You can look up your own risk here
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3 Dec 2024
7/ The prospects of limiting this carcinogen have gotten dimmer post-election. Trump’s push to deregulate will go far beyond formaldehyde, of course. But this one chemical makes the human toll of delaying health protections all too clear.
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