Articles by Senior Data Reporter Clayton Aldern
Clayton Aldern is a data reporter and data visualization developer. He has contributed to reporting teams that have won various awards, including a national Edward R. Murrow Award, multiple Online Journalism Awards, multiple Sigma Awards, and the Breaking Barriers Award from the Institute for Nonprofit News. He is the author of The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains.
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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.
