Pro-Trump 2020 “Stop the Count” Activist Lands Top Job at the Interior Department
Interior Department appointee Daniel Gustafson is a longtime Trump loyalist who participated in a protest to “stop the count” of Michigan ballots in 2020.
Jimmy Tobias
Jimmy Tobias, an environmental reporter, is a contributor at The Nation and a contributing writer at The Guardian and Pacific Standard. He is a 2021 Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow.
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Trump Fired Park Rangers — But Not the Ones Who Tend to the White House
National Park Service workers who care for the White House were exempt from a wave of mass firings that gutted the agency.
Grizzly Bear Poachers Flout the Endangered Species Act — and Get Away With It
A trove of investigative files reveals that the Department of Justice almost never prosecutes grizzly bear killers under the powerful law.
Origins of Covid
Top NIH Official Advised Covid Scientists That He Uses Personal Email to Evade FOIA
David M. Morens, a high-ranking official at the National Institutes of Health, told prominent scientists discussing Covid’s origins that he would delete emails.
Origins of Covid
The Rise and Fall of the Raccoon Dog Theory of Covid-19
Media reports created a false impression of a major breakthrough linking animals to Covid’s origins.
The Coronavirus Crisis
NIH Urged to Consider Banning Wuhan Institute of Virology From Future Grants
The Wuhan lab has continued to stonewall NIH and EcoHealth Alliance on scientific documentation, an inspector general report confirmed.
Origins of Covid
Unredacted NIH Emails Show Efforts to Rule Out Lab Origin of Covid
Virologists close to the NIH initially believed the Covid virus could be genetically engineered. Unredacted emails show how their thinking evolved.
Money and Politics Could Doom the Florida Panther — and the Endangered Species Act
The law has powerful provisions to protect animals, but, amid cozy relationships with developers, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rarely acts.
Interior Department Is Filled With Ex-Lobbyists Who Are Cozy with Their Former Employers, New Ethics Complaint Shows
"The Interior Department’s culture of corruption under President Trump didn’t start or end with Ryan Zinke."