Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

How we did it: ‘They think workers are like dogs.’ How pork plant execs sacrificed safety for profits

With support from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, we deeply examined the outbreak at Triumph Foods, which sickened hundreds of meatpacking workers and killed at least four. Here's how we did it.

By Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

/ 29 Dec 2020

Federal court denies motion to hold EPA in contempt of dicamba ruling

A request to hold the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in contempt of a June 3 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals order to vacate registrations of the weed killer dicamba was denied Friday.

By Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

/ 19 Jun 2020

Federal court denies motion to hold EPA in contempt of dicamba ruling

Dicamba on trial: Get daily updates

Bayer and BASF are defending themselves against charges in a civil lawsuit that they intentionally caused "an ecological disaster" in order to increase their profits on dicamba-related

By Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

/ 28 Jan 2020

Join our newsroom as a GateHouse Media agriculture data fellow

We are seeking applicants for the GateHouse Media Agriculture Data Fellowship at the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting in Champaign, Ill. The agricultural data reporter will be embedded in the newsroom of the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting and will focus on in-depth agribusine

By Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

/ 22 Aug 2019

Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

How we did it: ‘They think workers are like dogs.’ How pork plant execs sacrificed safety for profits

Federal court denies motion to hold EPA in contempt of dicamba ruling

Dicamba on trial: Get daily updates

Join our newsroom as a GateHouse Media agriculture data fellow

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