Articles by Senior Data Reporter Clayton Aldern
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![a collage with a man looking out into the distance in front of a refinery with smoke plume]()
![a collage with a man looking out into the distance in front of a refinery with smoke plume]()
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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![An illustration of the Oxbow refinery]()
![An illustration of the Oxbow refinery]()
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.
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The Roadless Rule is supposed to protect our wild places. What went wrong in the Tongass National Forest?
The Roadless Rule is supposed to protect wild places. What went wrong in the Tongass National Forest?
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![Residential area adjacent to oil refinery]()
![Residential area adjacent to oil refinery]()
The White House excluded race from its environmental justice tool. We put it back in.
A Grist analysis shows how the ‘race-neutral’ screening tool can still prioritize communities of color.
