What The Lever Published This Week:
Deadly Harvest: The Hidden Costs Of Your Filet-O-Fish
In one of the world’s most valuable fisheries, regulators with conflicts of interest are letting corporations off the hook.
Lois Parshley
MASTER PLAN, Ep 8: Shock And Awe At The Supreme Court
In a pivotal 12 months, the master planners transformed the judiciary, positioning it to deliver corruption-legalizing precedents.
David Sirota
The Toxic Loophole Behind A Chemical Plant Disaster
In the years before the catastrophic BioLab chemical fire this week, chemical industry lobbyists fought to ensure disaster-prevention rules didn’t cover such facilities.
Katya Schwenk
Before Hurricane Helene, A Perfect Storm Of Climate Denialism
North Carolina was once a climate leader, but more than a decade of Republican and corporate obstruction left the state ill-prepared for the historic disaster.
Lucy Dean Stockton
MASTER PLAN Bonus: The Federalist Society’s “Pipeline For Power”
How the former campus law organization dug its claws into the federal judiciary.
David Sirota
Swiping At Swiping Monopolies
The Feds take on Big Credit Card and take aim at big, bad junk fees, regulators strike again at a fossil fuel company’s poisonous machinery, and voter suppression gets suppressed.
Sam Pollak
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The Lever In The News:
- The Nation — The magazine republished our deep-dive investigation into the hidden costs of America’s pollock addiction.
- Capital Crimes — Lois Parshley appears on the true-crime podcast to discuss her story on charging climate killers with homicide.
