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Author Archives: Emma Schwartz

Posted inWorkers’ Rights

VIDEO: A laborer dies in a gas explosion, safety questions linger

Avatar photo by Emma Schwartz May 21, 2012January 7, 2022

On Sept. 3, 2009, contract laborer Nick Revetta was killed in an explosion at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Plant near Pittsburgh. Revetta’s death and the events that followed reveal the limitations of a federal law meant to protect American workers.

Posted inDemocracy

SuperShuttle: A job or a business?

Avatar photo by Emma Schwartz April 22, 2012January 21, 2019
Posted inEnvironment

IMPACT: Environmental groups sue EPA over lack of coal ash regulation

Avatar photo by Emma Schwartz April 6, 2012June 2, 2019
Posted inInequality

New whistleblower cases allege continued bank fraud

Avatar photo by Amy Biegelsen and Emma Schwartz March 9, 2012January 28, 2022
Posted inInequality

Virginians protest General Electric over foreclosures

Avatar photo by Amy Biegelsen and Emma Schwartz March 6, 2012January 28, 2022
Posted inDemocracy

Lawrence Lessig: One way forward

Avatar photo by Emma Schwartz February 29, 2012January 7, 2022
Posted inEnvironment, Poisoned Places

VIDEO: In the shadow of pollution

Avatar photo by Chris Hamby and Emma Schwartz November 30, 2011January 28, 2022
Posted inEnvironment, Poisoned Places

VIDEO: An Arizona town’s long struggle with hazardous air

Avatar photo by Emma Schwartz and Jim Morris November 17, 2011November 12, 2018
Posted inEnvironment

In smelter town, decades of dirty air, disease — and bureaucratic dawdling

Avatar photo by Jim Morris and Emma Schwartz November 17, 2011July 31, 2019
Posted inEnvironment, Poisoned Places

VIDEO: Toxics in the air, worry on the ground

Avatar photo by Emma Schwartz November 7, 2011January 7, 2022
Posted inEnvironment, Looting the Seas, Natural Resources

Video: The hake hoax

Avatar photoAvatar photoAvatar photo by Emma Schwartz, Mar Cabra and Marcos Garcia Rey October 6, 2011January 7, 2022
Posted inEnvironment, Looting the Seas, Natural Resources

VIDEO: The new colonizers

Avatar photoAvatar photoAvatar photo by Emma Schwartz, Marcos Garcia Rey and John Grobler October 4, 2011June 2, 2019
Posted inEducation

Pentagon lacks funding to fix public schools on military bases

Avatar photo by Emma Schwartz September 21, 2011March 13, 2019
Posted inDebt Deception?, Inequality

One woman’s fight for her longtime family home

Avatar photo by Emma Schwartz September 1, 2011January 7, 2022
Posted inInequality

One woman’s fight for her longtime family home

Avatar photo by Emma Schwartz September 1, 2011April 8, 2019
Posted inEducation

Many public schools on military bases get poor or failing report card

Avatar photo by Emma Schwartz August 30, 2011January 7, 2022
Posted inEducation

Defense Department’s report card

Avatar photo by Emma Schwartz August 30, 2011March 13, 2019
Posted inDemocracy

Behind the story: Why Koch is fighting chemical security

Avatar photo by Emma Schwartz August 24, 2011January 7, 2022
Posted inEducation

The other casualty of war

Avatar photo by Emma Schwartz and Kristen Lombardi June 26, 2011March 13, 2019
Posted inNational Security

Gun background checks: How the system is still broken

Avatar photo by Emma Schwartz June 23, 2011February 26, 2019
Posted inFueling Fears, Worker Health and Safety, Workers’ Rights

IMPACT: Reform boosts workplace safety even while companies appeal inspectors’ conclusions

Avatar photo by Jim Morris and Emma Schwartz June 23, 2011January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Smoke Screen Part II, Tobacco

In Mexico, tobacco fields disappearing

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab and Emma Schwartz May 31, 2011January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth

A new health care? Many doctors skeptical of new technology

Avatar photo by Emma Schwartz May 19, 2011January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Wendell Potter commentary

Analysis by Wendell Potter: A single payer system for Vermont

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Jasmine Norwood and Emma Schwartz May 19, 2011January 7, 2022
Posted inDebt Deception?, Inequality

Credit unions turn to payday loans

Avatar photo by Emma Schwartz May 18, 2011January 7, 2022
Posted inDebt Deception?, Inequality

Credit unions turn to payday loans

Avatar photo by Emma Schwartz May 18, 2011January 7, 2022
Posted inEnvironment

Nuclear fire protection: A critic’s view

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Emma Schwartz and Jasmine Norwood May 11, 2011January 7, 2022
Posted inEnvironment

Nuclear fire protection: An industry view

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Jasmine Norwood and Emma Schwartz May 11, 2011January 7, 2022
Posted inEnvironment

Behind the story: Is biomass as green as it seems?

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Jasmine Norwood and Emma Schwartz May 3, 2011June 9, 2019
Posted inAccountability

Behind the story: Are diplomats getting away with human trafficking?

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Emma Schwartz and Jasmine Norwood April 28, 2011January 7, 2022

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