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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
For residents, the questions are deeply personal: What did years of exposure mean for their families? How long was the contamination present? And why weren’t they warned sooner? The contaminated well has since been treated and the do-not-drink advisory lifted.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Andersen sits above Guam’s sole-source aquifer. Environmental regulators later identified the former military housing area as a “possible source of dieldrin in drinking water” and asked the military to investigate. The military maintains that no specific source has been identified.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Margin and @thewarhorsenews.bsky.social reviewed thousands of pages of previously unreleased records showing pesticides including dieldrin, aldrin, and chlordane in soil around military housing at Andersen Air Force Base.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In Yigo, Guam, residents were told not to drink their tap water after unsafe levels of dieldrin—a pesticide banned in the U.S. because of its toxicity—were detected in a community well. But the contamination had been on regulators’ radar for years.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
For years, a banned pesticide sat in a Yigo drinking-water well. Residents weren't told to stop drinking it for more than 10 years. Federal officials flagged elevated dieldrin levels in Guam’s drinking water as early as 2012. Residents weren’t warned until 2025.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Margin wins its first Covering Climate Now Journalism Award for Outstanding Displacement & Migration Reporting for “Saving Sinking Homes” by Jess Zhang and Megan Gannon, with Katie Basile.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The consequences fall hardest on communities of color. In summer 2025, Black New Yorkers died from heat-related illness at 3x the rate of white New Yorkers. Latino residents died at 2x the rate.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Even when someone gets an A/C, the program doesn't pay the electricity bill to run it. This leaves many low-income New Yorkers choosing between cooling off and rising energy costs.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Margin analyzed more than 60,000 NYC applications the city received for air conditioning assistance from 2024–2025 and found nearly 1 in 5 were denied because applicants lacked documentation or couldn't prove a qualifying medical condition.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
One answer is buried in New York's cooling assistance program. We know that access to safe, reliable cooling helps people survive extreme heat. But New York's largest safety net for low-income residents facing energy insecurity wasn't designed around the reality of today's hotter summers.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
About 500 New Yorkers die from heat every year. City officials call these deaths “entirely preventable.” If these deaths are preventable, why isn't cooling accessible to everyone who needs it?
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Presented by The Margin as part of the day-long Stories that Move at NYC Climate Week.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Margin wins its first Online Journalism Award in 2026 for Jess Zhang, Katie Basile, and Megan Gannon’s reporting, “Saving Sinking Homes” and ‘Morning Land that Leaves.” Here's what the judges had to say:
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
@ottavias.bsky.social spent months reporting for The Margin on the United Houma Nation's fight for federal recognition and the Tribe's exposure to climate disasters. 2 years later, the Tribe received $56.5M to build the resilience infrastructure it needs. That work is underway now.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Environmental injustice doesn't end when the story runs. It ends when someone is held accountable. Join The Margin at #ClimateWeekNYC for "The Power of Journalism". 9/21, NYC. Register: luma.com/oopv0l2r
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“[Regulations] like that are designed not with science in mind, not with public health in mind, but with giving the utilities and the coal industry indirectly a break at the cost of the people who live closest to the facilities.” #CoalAsh #Kentucky
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"Disasters disproportionately affect those who are already socio-economically marginalized in a community."
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Join us Thurs. Aug. 20 for our latest Inside: The Margin event on our latest story on coal ash contamination at the Mill Creek Generating Station in #Louisville, Kentucky, and what it will take to hold utilities and regulators accountable: bit.ly/DecadesOfCoalAsh
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"The strategy here is such an onslaught of changes to rules all at once that it's hard to keep up with them all," says Byron Gary, an attorney with the Kentucky Resources Council. #CoalAsh #Kentucky
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Read the latest from The Margin now: The Shells of #Swannanoa themargin.us/features/the... #hurricanehelene #westernNC #climatedisaster #climatechange
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
For families already left out of formal recovery, that fear compounds everything else. In our latest investigation, Victoria Bouloubasis follows what's happened since: mounting evictions and the neighbors and mutual aid groups who've filled the gap left by federal recovery.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
ICE has increased its presence in the state. In June, NC passed a law requiring state law enforcement to collaborate with ICE. In July, a joint ICE/US Forest Service checkpoint in nearby Caldwell County led to 13 arrests.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
In Swannanoa's hardest-hit mobile home parks, families have spent two years piecing homes back together with no federal safety net to fall back on.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Nearly two years after Hurricane Helene, undocumented homeowners in Swannanoa, NC, are still rebuilding. They're shut out of #FEMA aid entirely, no matter how long they've lived here or how much they've lost.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Join us Thurs. Aug. 20 for our latest Inside: The Margin event on our latest story on coal ash contamination at the Mill Creek Generating Station in Louisville, Kentucky, and what it will take to hold utilities and regulators accountable: bit.ly/DecadesOfCoa... #Louisville
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"It's the dirtiest place I've ever lived in my life," longtime resident Roger Mills told The Margin.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Read the latest from The Margin to see what she found and what's still going unstudied. themargin.us/features/ken...
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A public health researcher with the University of Mississippi conducted a $3 million National Institutes of Health study to try anyway.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Coal ash is loaded with dangerous elements. Proving it made any one person sick is another story entirely, one most communities never get the resources to tell. #kentucky
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
“I knew living by LG&E was a bad thing,” said Marla Patterson. She lives in Valley Station, in the shadow of the Mill Creek Generating Station. Operated by Louisville Gas & Electric Company & Kentucky Utilities Energy, LLC, it's the last utility-scale coal-fired power plant in Jefferson County, KY.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This is one of over 1,000 coal ash sites nationwide. Read the full investigation: themargin.us/features/ken... #journalism
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Kentucky groups are pushing back, but the state has no strong laws of its own. Without federal protections, there's little stopping the rollback. #toxicexposure
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
In 2015, federal rules finally required utilities to monitor and clean up #coalash. Those protections are now on the chopping block
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"People are dying of cancer left and right in this subdivision,” said one resident who's lived beside the plant for decades. #publichealth
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The real danger isn't just in the air. It's on the ground and in the water.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Half a century of coal smoke, right next to a #Kentucky neighborhood.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
New investigation: what it's like to live in the shadow of a coal plant staying online to meet data center demand 1/🧵 #environmentaljustice
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This is one of over 1,000 coal ash sites nationwide. Read the full investigation: themargin.us/features/ken... #journalism
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Kentucky groups are pushing back, but the state has no strong laws of its own. Without federal protections, there's little stopping the rollback. #toxicexposure
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
In 2015, federal rules finally required utilities to monitor and clean up #coalash. Those protections are now on the chopping block
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"People are dying of cancer left and right in this subdivision,” said one resident who's lived beside the plant for decades. #publichealth
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The real danger isn't just in the air. It's on the ground and in the water.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Half a century of coal smoke, right next to a #Kentucky neighborhood.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
For a while, basketball kept kids from the Yup'ik villages of Kwigillingok and Kipnuk, displaced by Typhoon Halong, busy. But once the season ended, the real work began. www.tiktok.com/@themargin_u...
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
"In my district, there are no therapists down the road, no crisis counselors in every school. When something breaks in a child in rural Alaska, it usually breaks quietly, and we always see how that ends up. We always find out too late," said state Rep. Nellie Unangiq Jimmie. "We are losing kids."
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Jess Zhang spent a week in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta with nearly a dozen young people and their families. School social workers are carrying impossible caseloads, Tribal leaders are navigating a broken recovery system, and Yup'ik healers insist that the answer won't come from Western models alone.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Children as young as 6 wake from nightmares about that storm. Teenagers displaced hundreds of miles from their villages describe days that blur together, a numbness that won't lift. One graduate put it plainly: she still feels stuck in October. #indigenousyouth
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Six months after the remnants of #TyphoonHalong swept homes off their foundations in western Alaska, the water has receded. But for the young people of Kwigillingok and Kipnuk, the storm hasn't ended. #climatecrisis
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Aliyia Jones moved to Camden for relief after a train derailment displaced her. She found 14 scrapyard fires instead. 🧵
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The Margin and @WHYY.org interviewed seven Waterfront South residents who experienced acute health symptoms or lingering psychological impacts after repeat fires at the EMR metal scrapyard recycling site. Christina Allen shared how her and her son’s health have been affected #publichealth
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