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Evidence That Humans Changed the Climate is Being Erased
The data sources that trace humanity’s effect on the climate are under threat. Under the Trump administration, publication of scientific reports is being frozen and some records risk being removed ...
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New Air Quality Monitoring App Aims to Protect Students in Polluted Bay Area Communities
A new app aims to provide school communities in polluted areas with real-time data to help protect students from fine ...
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‘No Kings’ March Draws Huge SF Crowd
Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through San Francisco Saturday from Dolores Park to Civic Center Plaza for a No Kings protest organized to oppose the Trump administration’s increasingly ...
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Radiation Studies Targeted Servicemen, Dockworkers and the 49ers
Our investigative series, “Exposed: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point," details how the U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, based at a shipyard in San Francisco, exposed at ...
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Toxic Waste Cleanups Take Longer in Marginalized Communities
Toxic site cleanups take longer in marginalized communities, according to a new Public Press analysis of more than 20,000 sites of varying size across the nine-county Bay Area. In areas that scored ...
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San Francisco Rations Housing by Scoring Homeless People’s Trauma. By Design, Most Fail to Qualify. - San Francisco Public Press
Co-published with ProPublica. Tabitha Davis had just lost twins in childbirth and was facing homelessness. The 23-year-old had slept on friends’ floors for the first seven months of her pregnancy, ...
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Hundreds of Homes for Homeless Sit Vacant - San Francisco Public Press
As of early February, the city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing reported 1,633 homeless people approved for housing and awaiting their turn to move in. Yet records provided by the ...
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CA Court Reporter Shortage Limits Justice in Domestic Violence Cases - San Francisco Public Press
Advocates for women’s and children’s rights say providing free or low-cost access to transcripts in hearings is key to equal justice. Unlike many states, California has in recent years repeatedly ...
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After Atomic Test Blunder, U.S. Allowed Human Radiation Studies
The first people known to have been exposed to radiation by the U.S. Navy in San Francisco were part of an atomic cleanup crew. Wrapped in cotton overalls and clunky gas masks, with pockets sewn shut ...
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SF to Briefly House Some Homeless Migrant Families, as the Rest Languish
Faced with an influx of unhoused migrant families into San Francisco, the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing will offer between 100 and 150 households temporary stays in hotels in the ...
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Navy Lab in SF Became Hub for Human Radiation Experiments
Our investigative series, “Exposed: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point," details how the U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, based at a shipyard in San Francisco, exposed at ...