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Jamie Smith Hopkins is an editor and senior reporter for the Center for Public Integrity. Her work includes investigations into the country's racial wealth gap, its fossil fuel export boom and its failure to stop a decades-long string of deaths from a widely available consumer product. She was the host of the second season of The Heist podcast in 2022. Before joining Public Integrity in 2014, Hopkins spent 15 years as a reporter for The Baltimore Sun. Honors for her stories include awards from the Society of Environmental Journalists, the Education Writers Association and the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing.

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Posted inUS Polling Places

In Pennsylvania, lawsuits leave election rules in doubt

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins October 2, 2020January 28, 2022
Posted inUS Polling Places

In Maryland, a switch over mail-in ballots worries advocates

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins October 2, 2020January 28, 2022
Posted inUS Polling Places

In Florida, voting rights restored, then snatched back

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins October 1, 2020January 28, 2022
Posted inUS Polling Places

In Iowa, making voting simpler with one hand, trickier with the other

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins September 30, 2020January 28, 2022
Posted inUS Polling Places

In Texas, polling place closures, absentee ballot rules make it harder to vote

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins September 29, 2020January 28, 2022
Posted inHidden Epidemics

How to heal emotional wounds after disaster

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins August 25, 2020April 17, 2023
Illustration of daughter and mom in Houston after a hurricane.
Posted inHidden Epidemics

Disasters are driving a mental health crisis

Avatar photo by Dean Russell and Jamie Smith Hopkins August 25, 2020April 17, 2023
Posted inInjustice at Work

Supreme Court ruling ensures protections for LGBTQ workers

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins June 15, 2020January 28, 2022
Posted inInequality

The long battle for civilian oversight of the police

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins and Kristine Villanueva June 11, 2020January 28, 2022
Posted inHidden Epidemics

Los desastres naturales afectan a la salud mental. Cuéntanos de tu experiencia.

Avatar photo by Dean Russell, Kristine Villanueva and Jamie Smith Hopkins May 4, 2020January 28, 2022
Posted inHidden Epidemics

Natural disasters challenge mental health. Tell us your story.

Avatar photo by Dean Russell, Kristine Villanueva and Jamie Smith Hopkins May 4, 2020January 28, 2022
Posted inCoronavirus and Inequality

Amid coronavirus, calls and texts to mental-health hotlines are surging

Avatar photo by Dean Russell and Jamie Smith Hopkins April 2, 2020January 28, 2022
Posted inCoronavirus and Inequality

Michigan advisory panel members: halt water shutoffs amid COVID-19 spread

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins March 27, 2020January 28, 2022
Posted inCoronavirus and Inequality

A likely but hidden coronavirus risk factor: pollution

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins March 27, 2020January 28, 2022
Posted inGrowing Food, Sowing Trouble

U.S.-Canada board: The Great Lakes have a manure problem

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins January 24, 2020January 28, 2022
Posted inGrowing Food, Sowing Trouble

Lake Erie turns toxic every summer. Officials aren’t cracking down on the source.

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins January 23, 2020February 7, 2023
Posted inPushing Plastic

As the world grapples with plastic, the U.S. makes more of it — a lot more

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins June 13, 2019February 7, 2023
Posted inUnequal Risk

EPA restricts sales of deadly paint strippers after years of delays

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins March 15, 2019January 6, 2023
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Posted inUnequal Risk

Restrictions on deadly paint strippers near the finish line

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins January 8, 2019January 28, 2022
Posted inUnequal Risk

Some paint strippers are killing people. The EPA promised to act — but hasn’t.

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins December 14, 2018January 6, 2023
Posted inBLOWOUT: Inside America's Energy Gamble

Surge of oil and gas flowing to Texas coastline triggers building boom, tensions

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins and Kiah Collier November 29, 2018December 6, 2018
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Blowout: Inside America’s Energy Gamble

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins, Jie Jenny Zou, Rachel Leven, Jim Morris and Kiah Collier October 11, 2018January 28, 2022
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As oil and gas exports surge, West Texas becomes the world’s ‘extraction colony’

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins, Rachel Leven and Kiah Collier October 11, 2018January 28, 2022
Posted inUnequal Risk

Lowe’s says it will stop selling deadly paint removers

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins May 29, 2018January 6, 2023
Posted inUnequal Risk

Reversing course, the EPA will regulate a deadly paint stripper

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins May 10, 2018January 6, 2023
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Members of Congress to EPA: Act now on deadly chemical

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins March 29, 2018January 6, 2023
Posted inUnequal Risk

The EPA planned to ban a deadly paint-stripping chemical. Will it follow through?

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins March 26, 2018January 6, 2023
Posted inEnvironment

Sunshine State lags on solar power, doubles down on natural gas

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins and Kristen Lombardi December 11, 2017January 28, 2022
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Big power plant ignites political fight in small Pennsylvania town

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins November 2, 2017January 28, 2022
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These companies support climate action, so why are they funding opposition to it?

Avatar photo by Rachel Leven and Jamie Smith Hopkins September 19, 2017January 28, 2022

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