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Our latest investigation by Hugo Hodge with Walter Ulloa and Sonner Kehrt contributing reporting examines what officials knew about pesticide contamination in Guam. Read the full investigation: themargin.us/features/the...

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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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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 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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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.

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.

Judges said Zhang and Gannon offer “a great exploration of how climate impacts pile on top of other longstanding challenges,” calling the story “beautiful and memorable.”

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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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We’re honored to win our first #CCNow Award!! Congratulations Jess Zhang, Megan Gannon, and @katiebasilephoto.bsky.social

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Our latest investigation, by Jordan Gass-Pooré and Helina Selemon, examines the gap between the communities most vulnerable to extreme heat and the resources available to protect them. themargin.us/features/ove...

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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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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 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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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 · 15/09/2026

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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This panel, presented by The Margin as a part of the day-long Stories that Move program, brings together investigative journalists, editors, and photographers…

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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This program brings together investigative journalists, editors, and photographers to discuss the power of investigative and data-driven reporting that centers the people and places most affected by environmental and climate injustice.

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Presented by The Margin as part of the day-long Stories that Move at NYC Climate Week.

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"The reporters got a great story because they stayed in the community and gained the trust of those affected.”

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"The judges all agree that this is a tough category, and the winner took a unique and targeted look at the effects of climate change on a population that had traditionally been neglected by the US government."

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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:

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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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 Trump administration's proposed rule would undo that requirement, allowing utilities to walk away from cleanup responsibility for roughly half of the coal ash problem nationwide.

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A 2024 rule finally required these old, often abandoned dump sites to be identified and addressed. Mill Creek alone likely has at least three of these sites, according to data analyzed by Earthjustice.

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During our latest Inside: The Margin event, Tom "Fitz” Fitzgerald, the former director and current Of Counsel with the Kentucky Resources Council, broke down what's at stake in the EPA's coal ash rollback, including "legacy" coal ash sites.

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“[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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Our latest story documents their struggles and the people on the ground working to help them. Get our #environmentaljustice reporting delivered weekly to your inbox: bit.ly/MarginNewsle...

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Additional research from scientists at the University of Pittsburgh and Rice University shows that after a disaster, white households gained wealth while households of color lost wealth. In Swannanoa, undocumented families aren't eligible for any FEMA funding following #HurricaneHelene.

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That's according to FEMA's National Advisory Council, in a report published in December 2021, which warns that disaster survivors already struggling economically are pushed even further into poverty. #wealthgap

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"Disasters disproportionately affect those who are already socio-economically marginalized in a community."

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“If you get evicted from a mobile home park, you will have to choose from the least bad of three options: Abandon your property outright, sell it for pennies on the dollar, or try to move it to another location." - @themarginus.bsky.social themargin.us/features/the...

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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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With Kentucky home to at least 87 coal ash sites and no independent state law, proposed federal changes could allow regulators to bypass cleanup protections entirely, leaving residents to challenge utilities site by site.

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KRC has been sounding the alarm on Mill Creek for years, and their analysis is stark: the state could save ratepayers $2.6 billion by mid-century by transitioning off coal and gas, without raising costs.

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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

"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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