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Author Archives: Jamie Smith Hopkins

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 inEnvironment

Natural gas building boom fuels climate worries, enrages landowners

Avatar photo by Kristen Lombardi and Jamie Smith Hopkins July 17, 2017February 7, 2023
Posted inCarbon Wars

The invisible hazard afflicting thousands of schools

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins February 17, 2017February 7, 2023
Posted inEnvironment

‘This very dangerous road divides us’

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins February 17, 2017January 28, 2022
Posted inEnvironment

Is your school near a busy road and its air pollution?

Avatar photo by Chris Zubak-Skees and Jamie Smith Hopkins February 17, 2017January 28, 2022
Posted inEnvironment

Getting under the hood: Our methodology

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins February 17, 2017January 28, 2022
Posted inEnvironment

Questions and answers about schools and traffic pollution

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins February 17, 2017January 28, 2022
Posted inUnequal Risk

EPA wants to restrict sometimes-deadly paint stripper chemical

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins January 12, 2017January 6, 2023
Posted inEnvironment

Maryland’s plea to EPA: Make out-of-state power plants run pollution controls

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins November 18, 2016January 28, 2022
Posted inCarbon Wars

America’s super polluters

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins September 29, 2016February 7, 2023
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

Forty-two years later, OSHA OKs rule protecting workers from silica

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins March 24, 2016January 28, 2022
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

Compensation program for sick nuclear workers plagued by problems, ombudsman finds

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins March 21, 2016January 28, 2022
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

Report underlines recent worker hazards at old weapons plants

Avatar photo by Jim Morris and Jamie Smith Hopkins January 7, 2016January 28, 2022
Posted inUnequal Risk

Ailing, angry nuclear-weapons workers fight for compensation

Avatar photo by Jim Morris and Jamie Smith Hopkins December 11, 2015January 6, 2023
Posted inUnequal Risk

Disease victims often shut out of workers’ comp system

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins November 4, 2015January 6, 2023
Posted inDanger in the Air, Environment

Clean-air advocates upset with EPA ozone decision

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins October 1, 2015January 28, 2022
Posted inBreathless and Burdened

Johns Hopkins terminates black lung program

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins September 30, 2015February 21, 2023
Posted inUnequal Risk

Common solvent keeps killing workers, consumers

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins September 21, 2015January 6, 2023
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

OSHA seeks to reduce exposure to highly useful, highly toxic metal

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins August 5, 2015January 28, 2022
Posted inUnequal Risk, Worker Health and Safety, Workers’ Rights

How government, business and labor can better protect workers

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins and Maryam Jameel July 6, 2015January 7, 2022
Posted inUnequal Risk

Slow-motion tragedy for American workers

Avatar photo by Jim Morris, Jamie Smith Hopkins and Maryam Jameel June 29, 2015January 6, 2023
Posted inUnequal Risk

A tattered safety net for workers

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The campaign to weaken worker protections

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins June 29, 2015February 13, 2023
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Read their stories: How job-related illnesses upended these families’ lives

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins, Jim Morris and Maryam Jameel June 29, 2015January 28, 2022
Posted inBig Oil, Bad Air, Environment, Pollution

Fracking hearing airs claims about conflicts of interest, ‘misinformation’

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins April 23, 2015January 28, 2022
Posted inEnvironment

Plant flares could pump out more pollution than previously thought

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins April 22, 2015January 28, 2022
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Interior: New fracking rules are good for public, industry

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins March 20, 2015January 28, 2022
Posted inEnvironment

Battle over smog standard heats up, with dueling arguments over cost

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins March 17, 2015January 28, 2022
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Texas aligns itself with industry in fight against tighter smog standards

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Posted inEnvironment

From rural Utah to Dallas and L.A.: Smog besets communities across U.S.

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins March 12, 2015February 13, 2023
Posted inBig Oil, Bad Air, Environment, Pollution

Groups sue to force EPA’s hand on oil and gas emissions

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins January 7, 2015January 7, 2022

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