The Center for Public Integrity

05/05/2026

Hi, we know it’s been a while since we posted.

You may have heard that CPI had to shut its doors, but we have exciting news.

POGO Investigates, the news reporting division of the Project On Government Oversight, is going to be the new home of our reporting archive.

This is going to ensure that our reporting can stay available to the public.

Keep an eye on this account in the future where we’ll post more from POGO’s investigative journalists.

05/01/2024

NEW: On Tuesday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it is banning methylene chloride in all consumer uses and most workplace settings.

The move is the most sweeping since a 2015 Center for Public Integrity investigation connected dozens of deaths to the chemical and showed that experts had warned of its dangers for decades.

It can kill on the spot or years after prolonged exposure.  When methylene chloride’s fumes build up, the chemical switches off the brain’s respiratory center, asphyxiating its victims if it doesn’t trigger a heart attack first. At lower levels, the federal government says, it increases the r...

04/26/2024

OSHA's job is to protect workers, but our investigation reveals how it often fails them in the aftermath of disasters. Learn how loopholes and lax enforcement leave workers vulnerable to toxic exposure.

Brothers Santos and Mariano have been chasing jobs after hurricanes for nearly two decades. And the grueling work of cleaning and rebuilding after natural disasters has taken a toll on their bodies. The brothers have been hospitalized following work accidents. One accident left Santos temporarily bl...

04/26/2024

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04/19/2024

NEW: Brothers Santos & Mariano risked their lives rebuilding hurricane after hurricane, but it's not just the accidents that haunt them. Our podcast dives into the silent dangers they faced.

(Published w/ Futuro Media, Columbia Journalism School & Latino USA)

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Brothers Santos and Mariano have been chasing jobs after hurricanes for nearly two decades. And the grueling work of cleaning and rebuilding after natural disasters has taken a toll on their bodies. The brothers have been hospitalized following work accidents. One accident left Santos temporarily bl...

04/18/2024

Lead lurking in soil harms kids across the country every year. But this doesn’t need to keep happening.

Join Center for Public Integrity journalist Yvette Cabrera and Grist journalist Clayton Aldern for a free training on April 30. They’ll explain how you can find out if (and where) lead in soil is a problem in your community, and what to do about it.

Cabrera has been reporting on this issue for eight years. She and Aldern teamed up on a series that showed how past contamination lingers in the soil, haunting neighborhoods today.

Sign up for the training here. ⬇️

You’ll also get a toolkit for future action. Hope to see you there — and pass on the word.

03/27/2024

Newsroom partnerships can be powerful — and fraught, especially when access to resources is unequal. Ashley Clarke shares ways to navigate that.

I’ve spent the past few years stewarding collaborative projects between the Center for Public Integrity and local newsrooms. These partnerships have expanded the depth of our reporting and strengthened our ability to reach audiences — and, we hope, offered equal value to our partners.  But that...

03/20/2024

Former colleagues remember Lisa Yanick Litwiller as a supportive leader who led by example and cultivated a space for everyone to speak up, be heard and laugh.

Lisa Yanick Litwiller, a former Center for Public Integrity director of audience whose humor, compassion, leadership and talent contributed to award-winning projects that focused on inequality, died of cancer Monday surrounded by her family at home in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.  She was 46.  Yanick L...

03/08/2024

Elmer Perez's recent death in a confined space sheds light on the dangers many workers encounter daily. Without adequate safety measures, lives are at stake.

In 2022, there were 24 fatal and 59 non-fatal confined-space accidents in agriculture, an increase from 2021.

“As for the penalties for some employers who are willful and negligent, it’s the cost of doing business — so the penalties are not significant enough,” said Marcy Goldstein-Gelb with National Council for Occupational Safety and Health.

Early this year, Elmer Perez began his Monday shift at 9 a.m., welding inside a ship at Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors in Houma, Louisiana.  Hours after Perez skipped lunch, his coworkers went looking for the undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. They found him unconscious inside the small space he...

03/08/2024

Behind closed doors: Thousands of unaccompanied minors vanish from sponsor homes, raising concerns about their welfare and the efficacy of oversight.

Missing migrant children reports in Culpeper are not isolated. Following an influx of unaccompanied minors entering the U.S., thousands have disappeared from sponsors’ homes after the federal government placed them there.