Environment
The American divide
Reveal host Al Letson talks to a first-time voter, whose struggles reflect the divisions this country faces after a historic election.
Sustainability
Sustainability
The refuge revealed
Oil rigs may soon be coming to the nation’s largest wildlife refuge. We find out what that could mean to the people who live there.
The (Un)Scientific Method
New York bill to ban toxic solvent TCE awaits governor’s signature
At the federal level, the White House has interfered with the EPA’s evaluation of the chemical, which can cause cancers and deform fetal hearts.
The (Un)Scientific Method
EPA science panel plows ahead with toxic chemical’s review, despite coronavirus crisis
Under White House pressure, the EPA ordered the panel to ignore the findings of its own scientists that the chemical TCE causes fetal heart defects.
Sustainability
The refuge revealed
Oil rigs may soon be coming to the nation’s largest wildlife refuge. We find out what that could mean to the people who live there.
Sustainability
The tell-tale hearts
Trump’s deregulatory fervor bolsters the chemical industry and Defense Department’s effort to debunk the science linking TCE to fetal heart defects.
The (Un)Scientific Method
EPA scientists found a toxic chemical damages fetal hearts. The Trump White House rewrote their assessment.
An internal scientific evaluation of TCE obtained by Reveal shows detailed interference by the Executive Office of the President.
Sustainability
Scuttling science
Advisory panels slashed, environmental regulations rolled back – how the Trump administration uses questionable science to justify its policies.
Inequality
Losing ground
On this episode, Reveal investigates the claim of Eddie Wise, the son of a sharecropper, who says the USDA treated him unfairly because of his race.
The (Un)Scientific Method
How will Trump’s lax emissions standards save money and lives? By assuming Americans will simply drive less
Scientists under political pressure “basically knew the answer that the White House wanted, and they were going to cook the books,” one engineer says.
