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Thursday, December 15, 2011
Shots - Health News
Once Routine, Autopsies Now Scarce At U.S. Hospitals
December 15, 2011 Hospitals have financial incentives to avoid autopsies. And a decline in the number of postmortem examinations performed means lost opportunities for improving medical care and distortions in health care statistics.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Planet Money
White House Kills Dollar Coin Program
December 14, 2011 More than 1 billion coins are sitting unwanted in government vaults. Ending the program will save an estimated $50 million a year.
Friday, December 09, 2011
Mine Safety In America
Mine Disaster Report Signals Safety Agency Failure
December 9, 2011 A final report on the April 2010 fatal explosion at Upper Big Branch coal mine not only blames Massey Energy for the disaster but exposes regulation failures within the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Brain Wars: How The Military Is Failing Its Wounded
Military's Brain-Testing Program A Debacle
November 28, 2011 The U.S. military is spending tens of millions of dollars to test every service member's brain to find out who suffered a traumatic brain injury during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. But an investigation by NPR and ProPublica has found that military leaders are refusing to carry out the testing program.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Poisoned Places: Toxic Air, Neglected Communities
N.Y. Town Unites, Exposes Pollution-Monitoring Flaws
November 10, 2011 After residents of Tonawanda became sick, they rallied to fight high levels of hazardous chemicals emitting from a dilapidated plant. In doing so, they revealed weaknesses in the way the EPA regulates air pollution.
Poisoned Places: Toxic Air, Neglected Communities
A Family's Fight To Clear The Air
November 10, 2011 The Galemore family is taking on the Ash Grove Cement Kiln in hopes of preventing hazardous emissions from poisoning their community.
Poisoned Places: Toxic Air, Neglected Communities
EPA Regulations Give Kilns Permission To Pollute
November 10, 2011 Cement plants, like Ash Grove in Chanute, Kan., burn hazardous waste for fuel, causing anxiety for nearby residents despite assurances of regulators.
Monday, November 07, 2011
Poisoned Places: Toxic Air, Neglected Communities
Oklahoma Town Battles Powdery Carbon Pollution
November 7, 2011 After 726 formal complaints, a union lockout, protests and lawsuits and settlements totaling about $20 million, residents in Ponca City no longer have daily struggles with carbon black.
Poisoned Places: Toxic Air, Neglected Communities
Poisoned Places: Air Pollution In Your Town
November 7, 2011 To begin exploring how air pollution may affect your community, use this interactive map of more than 17,000 facilities that have emitted hazardous chemicals into the air.
Poisoned Places: Toxic Air, Neglected Communities
Poisoned Places: About The Data
November 7, 2011 Details on how NPR and the Center for Public Integrity investigated the "Poisoned Places: Toxic Air, Neglected Communities" series.
Poisoned Places: Toxic Air, Neglected Communities
Secret 'Watch List' Reveals Failure To Curb Toxic Air
November 7, 2011 The system Congress set up 21 years ago to clean up poisonous air pollution still leaves many communities exposed to risky concentrations of benzene, formaldehyde, mercury and many other hazardous chemicals.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
The Two-Way
West Virginia Prosecutor Defends Long Mine Disaster Investigation
October 28, 2011 The U.S. Attorney for West Virginia tells the Charleston Gazette that prosecutors are exploring more serious charges against senior Massey Energy officials in last year's deadly explosion at the company's Upper Big Branch mine.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Native Foster Care: Lost Children, Shattered Families
Native Survivors Of Foster Care Return Home
October 27, 2011 Native Americans like Dwayne Stenstrom, who were sent off the reservation as young children, seek the culture and heritage they lost.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Native Foster Care: Lost Children, Shattered Families
Tribes Question Foster Group's Power And Influence
October 26, 2011 In South Dakota, hundreds of Native American foster children are being placed in a large private group home, which gets paid millions of dollars, instead of with family or other members of their tribes.
