THE INTERCEPT

MARCH 21. 2025

Trump EPA’s Next Move: Making It Harder to Sue for Getting Cancer from Roundup

Bayer, the corporation behind Roundup herbicide, has paid out nearly $11 billion in lawsuits. Trump’s EPA might move to block the suits.

FEBRUARY 14. 2025

Trump’s EPA Kills Grant to Climate Nonprofit Over Its Support for Palestine

In a tweet announcing his attack on the Climate Justice Alliance, EPA head Lee Zeldin linked it to the group’s protected speech about Palestine.

JANUARY 24. 2025

Which LA Fire Victims Get Money on GoFundMe — and Who Gets Left Out?

GoFundMe campaigns tend to favor the white and wealthy. After the Eaton fire, Altadena’s Black community is fighting back.

JANUARY 19. 2025

Trump Inauguration Official’s “Phony Charity” Allegedly Pocketed East Palestine Train Disaster Funds

Under a settlement with Ohio’s attorney general, Trump inauguration committee official Pat Lee can never fundraise for charity in Ohio again.

JANUARY 9. 2025

LA Budgeted Money For Cop Jobs While Cutting Fire Department Positions. Now the City Is Burning.

“Defunding of other city programs in order to give the LAPD billions a year has consequences, ” according to a local activist.

DECEMBER 19. 2024

EPA Staffers Demand Biden Release Climate Funds Withheld Over Gaza

EPA staffers demanded Joe Biden release funds withheld from the Climate Justice Alliance over Palestine advocacy and Gaza ceasefire calls.

NOVEMBER 29. 2024

Biden Makes His Own Attack on Nonprofit Over Palestine

The Biden administration is withholding funds from the Climate Justice Alliance, a federal grantee that has spoken out about Palestine.

OCTOBER 19. 2024

The FBI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Program Has a New Target: Animal Rights Activists

The FBI urged meat industry groups to help the feds crack down on activists for potentially violating bioterrorism laws.

OCTOBER 9. 2024

Secret Recordings Show Ugly Conditions Ahead of Denver’s Slaughterhouse Ban Referendum

Advocates hope the graphic videos help rally support for a ballot initiative to ban slaughterhouses in Denver.

OCTOBER 4. 2024

Hurricane-Struck North Carolina Prisoners Were Locked in Cells With Their Own Feces for Nearly a Week

Hurricane Helene saw North Carolina prisons lock incarcerated men in cells with their own feces and no contact with the outside world.

SEPTEMBER 30. 2024

The Dirty Business of Clean Energy: The U. K. Power Company Polluting Small Towns Across the U. S

Based on dubious carbon accounting, Drax, which runs the U. K. ’s biggest power plant, is rapidly expanding its wood pellet operations across America.

SEPTEMBER 18. 2024

The National Guard Knows Its Armories Have Dangerous Lead Contamination, Putting Kids and Soldiers At Risk

The Army National Guard has known about poisonous lead dust at armories open to the public for years, but is doing little to respond.

SEPTEMBER 13. 2024

They Protested a Military Base Expansion. So the FBI Investigated Them as Terrorism Suspects.

The FBI filed a Stop Camp Grayling protest in a terrorism investigation file — then did physical surveillance on a demonstration.

JULY 9. 2024

GOP Platform Doesn’t Mention the Word “Climate” Once — Even After Hottest Year on Record

The Trump-led 2024 Republican platform instead calls for an American Iron Dome and the largest deportation operation ever.