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How the Kingston coal ash spill unearthed a nuclear nightmare
This story was published in partnership with the Daily Yonder, with support from the IRE Freelance Investigative Fellowship Award. In 2009, App Thacker was hired to run a dredge along the Emory River...
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How disaster relief leaves Kentucky’s landslide victims behind
This story was published in collaboration with The Bitter Southerner and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Transcript Well past midnight on July 28, 2022, 12-year-old Kaleigh Baker tiptoed into...
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Closing the coal ash loophole
Betty Johnson calls the day 15 years ago when her husband, Tommy, a heavy machinery operator, rushed to Tennessee’s Kingston Fossil Plant “a tragedy we’ll never forget.” More than 1 billion gallons of...
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A celebrated startup promised Kentuckians green jobs. It gave them a...
This story was produced by Grist and co-published with the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting. The workers had spent the morning of November 8, 2021, clipping, trussing, and trellising...
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How do you convince someone to live next to a nuclear waste site?
The world’s first permanent depository for nuclear fuel waste opens later this year on Olkiluoto, a sparsely populated and lushly forested island in the Baltic Sea three hours north of Helsinki....
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