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Nov 6, 2023 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Unregulated contaminants have been found in the tap water of tens of millions of Americans in the past decade, but the EPA hasn’t yet regulated them. Why has there been so little movement on these emerging threats? Here’s what I found for @propublica propublica.org/article/epa-sa…
You may have heard about PFAS: “forever chemicals” that have been found in drinking water all over the country but aren’t regulated. But did you know the EPA has found a dozen other unregulated contaminants in tap water in the past decade at potentially unsafe levels?
Oct 12, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Today, @propublica & @NBCNews published the 1st story in our yearlong, data-driven investigation into the child welfare system, which has largely avoided the scrutiny of the criminal justice system despite its power & the sheer number of children & families it affects. A THREAD🧵
Today’s story starts at the beginning: Does mandatory reporting work? To answer that question @Mike_Hixenbaugh and @SuzyKhimm looked at Pennsylvania, which expanded its mandatory reporting laws in 2015 after the Penn State Sandusky sex abuse scandal nbcnews.com/news/us-news/c…
Dec 19, 2020 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
Thousands of Native Hawaiians who have a legal right to reclaim ancestral land will never be able to — because the land is running out.
But it's not just because there are too many — state and federal agencies also kept taking the land for free THREAD
The Hawaiian homes program can only has enough land to provide about 3,200 more residential lots on Oahu. But there are 11k Hawaiians on the waitlist.
To understand how the land shrunk, I need to take you back to 1921...
Oct 24, 2020 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
When I first met @StarAdvertiser's Rob Perez in January, we talked about his ambitious goal: Use data no one else had looked at to uncover new findings about failures of a program meant to help low income Hawaiians reclaim their ancestral lands. Here’s what we’ve found. THREAD
Controversies and court cases had plagued the Hawaiian Homes program for years. Created by a federal law a century ago, there are only 10k current homesteaders, while the waitlist has grown to nearly 29k.
