Articles by Senior Data Reporter Clayton Aldern
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The extractive industries filling public university coffers on stolen land
How 14 land-grant colleges took 8.2 million acres from 123 Indigenous nations.
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How we investigated the land-grant university system
A methodology of our efforts to reveal how land-grant universities continue to profit from stolen Indigenous resources.
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How unchecked ‘excess emissions’ ballooned in Texas
Over the last two decades, state regulators have allowed companies to release more than a billion pounds of excess pollution.
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How a Koch-owned chemical plant in Texas gamed the Clean Air Act
Oxbow Calcining spent years running from clean air rules. New evidence suggests it bent the law until it broke.
