After Garrett Yalch revealed preventable deaths and systemic failures inside Tulsa’s municipal jail, a federal disability rights watchdog is stepping in.
This is what investigative reporting can do.
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Four portraits of Minnesota residents inside and outside their homes. From left to right: A woman in a hijab, an older woman wearing a red whistle, an elderly couple in winter coats standing in the snow, and a woman wearing a buttoned-up cardigan and dark blue jeans.
The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis.
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So I picked up my camera 👇
Lots of E&E News greats are walking out the door today. A true tragedy.
Based on something I dug up for this piece – that Santa Clara DA Jeff Rosen's campaign website has a "fighting Anti-Semitism" page where he boasts about prosecuting the Stanford students – the students' lawyers have moved to kick Rosen's office off its retrial. boltsmag.org/stanford-san...
yeah there's so much injection and pollution in that area. if they ever need to talk to a reporter, please send them my way. I'm still looking into stories around there
where any of your friends/family directly impacted? If so I'd very much like to speak to them
Hey, yes, that's right, these were the Velma purges. We wrote about the Velma case by name here
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"my reporting shows that excessively high injection pressures and volumes have caused mass pollution in Oklahoma."
From @nickbowlin.bsky.social
@nickbowlin.bsky.social went searching for the Source of Truth and he was shocked by what he found.
Oil Regulators Found Hundreds of Wells Violating Oklahoma Rules. Then They Ignored Their Findings.
w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social
This is 🤯: Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
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Quite a story today at @readfrontier.bsky.social by Garrett Yalch.
More excellent reporting from @readfrontier.bsky.social and @propublica.org on what happens when the public, legislators, and regulators grapple with the legacy of historic oil and gas pollution and toxic wastewater, the amount of which only grows by the day.
Tammy's story isn't an isolated incident. Check out the first story in this series, which investigates oilfield wastewater blowouts across the state of Oklahoma @readfrontier.bsky.social + @propublica.org
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State regulators discovered strong signs of oil pollution, including high levels of salt and toxic metals, in one family’s drinking water. But for two years, they repeatedly delayed basic tests to find the culprit — then closed the case.
Oklahoma officials found signs of oil&gas pollution in Tammy Boarman's drinking water, which left sores in her mouth and corroded appliances. In the end, the state closed her case, with basic questions left unanswered @readfrontier.bsky.social+@propublica.org
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“We are convinced that some of you are either inept at your job, just do not care, or you are protecting the operators,” she wrote in a Sept. 27, 2024, email to a half dozen agency employees.
More great work from @nickbowlin.bsky.social
The family’s water was undrinkable: It corroded taps. It withered plants. Their ice maker expelled clumps of salt.
Why?
For 2 yrs, Oklahoma oil regulators delayed basic tests that could help them find out.
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Truly shocking story. Salty, Oily Drinking Water Left Sores in Their Mouths. Oklahoma Refused to Find Out Why. by partner @nickbowlin.bsky.social @readfrontier.bsky.social
“When you have a market that is unregulated, difficult to assess and evolves very quickly, that is a calling card for nefarious agents to step in and make money.”
How Intoxicating Hemp Seeped Into the First Recreational Marijuana Market in the Country w/ @denvergazette.com
"When utilities earn substantial profits, one might expect customers to see some relief in their monthly bills. But as a result of the ownership model of the utilities that serve most Americans, this is rarely what happens."
Treat your customers like captives, expect them to leave when they can.
that's kind of you, thanks, lucy
happy to oblige, thanks, Isaac
But to your point – much to scrutinize here, and I think we can reasonably differ in how we weigh the many problems at hand
The system is riddled with problems. ROE isn't the only one. But it deserves far more scrutiny IMO, especially given all the evidence that excessively high ROEs are costing ratepayers quite a lot of money. Those high valuations, in practice, haven't had that sanguine downstream effect on consumers
"Monopoly utilities are supposed to have their profits tightly regulated to protect ratepayers. Yet their stock prices are surging in ways that are totally unmoored from the expectation for a regulated monopoly," write @ddayen.bsky.social and James Baratta: prospect.org/2025/12/18/w... 🔌💡
“You’re not targeting a criminal; you’re targeting a mom of four.”
Here’s how ICE detained and deported a Tulsa single mother—tailing her after she dropped her kids off at school—and how the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office made it possible.
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New investors are absolutely getting screwed, I agree. I wish I'd had the space to address that in the piece. But to my mind, it's all connected. Capitalization of excess returns into share prices is part of the overall wealth transfer from customers to shareholders, who can then sell at a premium