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<span>- <time datetime="2024-10-09 15:47:33">Oct. 9</time></span> </div> </div> <p class="flex-1 font-serif text-base tracking-[0.01em] leading-6">Advocates hope the graphic videos, which were shared with The Intercept, will help rally support for the ballot initiative.</p> </div> </a> </article> <article class="wide-story-card"> <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/10/04/hurricane-helene-north-carolina-mountain-view-prison/" class="group flex flex-col items-start sm:flex-row gap-4 sm:gap-10"> <div class="flex-1 xl:group-hover:bg-accentLight xl:group-focus:bg-accentLight"> <img width="768" height="513" src="https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/GettyImages-2174622583-e1728059517444.jpg?fit=768%2C513" class="w-full xl:group-hover:opacity-90 xl:group-focus:opacity-90 object-cover aspect-[2/1] wp-post-image" alt="ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA - SEPTEMBER 28: Heavy rains from hurricane Helene caused record flooding and damage on September 28, 2024 in Asheville, North Carolina. Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida's Big Bend on Thursday night with winds up to 140 mph and storm surges that killed at least 42 people in several states. (Photo by Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images)" decoding="async" /> </div> <div class="wide-story-card__text flex flex-col xl:flex-row gap-4 xl:gap-10 flex-1 text-summaryGrayDark xl:text-summaryGrayLight xl:group-hover:text-accentLight xl:group-focus:text-accentLight"> <div class="flex-1 flex flex-col gap-2.5"> <div> <h2 class="text-white xl:text-body xl:group-hover:text-accentLight xl:group-focus:text-accentLight font-bold text-xl leading-[1.1] m-0"> Hurricane-Struck North Carolina Prisoners Were Locked in Cells With Their Own Feces for Nearly a Week </h2> </div> <div class="wide-story-card__byline font-mono text-[13px] leading-[1.2]"> <p class="text-accentDark xl:text-accentLight not-italic inline-block">Schuyler Mitchell</p> <span>- <time datetime="2024-10-04 12:56:57">Oct. 4</time></span> </div> </div> <p class="flex-1 font-serif text-base tracking-[0.01em] leading-6">“We thought we were going to die there. We didn’t think anybody was going to come back for us.”</p> </div> </a> </article> <article class="wide-story-card"> <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/09/30/drax-wood-pellet-energy-air-pollution/" class="group flex flex-col items-start sm:flex-row gap-4 sm:gap-10"> <div class="flex-1 xl:group-hover:bg-accentLight xl:group-focus:bg-accentLight"> <img width="768" height="512" src="https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-2153549388-e1727707968125.jpg?fit=768%2C512" class="w-full xl:group-hover:opacity-90 xl:group-focus:opacity-90 object-cover aspect-[2/1] wp-post-image" alt="The towers of Drax Power Station, operated by Drax Group Plc, near Selby, UK, on Monday, May 13, 2024." decoding="async" loading="lazy" /> </div> <div class="wide-story-card__text flex flex-col xl:flex-row gap-4 xl:gap-10 flex-1 text-summaryGrayDark xl:text-summaryGrayLight xl:group-hover:text-accentLight xl:group-focus:text-accentLight"> <div class="flex-1 flex flex-col gap-2.5"> <div> <p class="text-accentDark xl:text-accentLight font-bold font-sans text-[20px] leading-[1.1] m-0"> Climate Crimes </p> <h2 class="text-white xl:text-body xl:group-hover:text-accentLight xl:group-focus:text-accentLight font-bold text-xl leading-[1.1] m-0"> The Dirty Business of Clean Energy: The U.K. Power Company Polluting Small Towns Across the U.S </h2> </div> <div class="wide-story-card__byline font-mono text-[13px] leading-[1.2]"> <p class="text-accentDark xl:text-accentLight not-italic inline-block">Camille Corcoran, Bertie Harrison-Broninski</p> <span>- <time datetime="2024-09-30 11:00:00">Sep. 30</time></span> </div> </div> <p class="flex-1 font-serif text-base tracking-[0.01em] leading-6">Based on dubious carbon accounting, Drax, which runs the U.K.’s biggest power plant, is rapidly expanding its wood pellet operations across America.</p> </div> </a> </article> <article class="wide-story-card"> <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/09/18/national-guard-armory-firing-range-kids-lead-exposure/" class="group flex flex-col items-start sm:flex-row gap-4 sm:gap-10"> <div class="flex-1 xl:group-hover:bg-accentLight xl:group-focus:bg-accentLight"> <img width="768" height="384" src="https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/NationalGuard-Soccer.jpg?fit=768%2C384" class="w-full xl:group-hover:opacity-90 xl:group-focus:opacity-90 object-cover aspect-[2/1] wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/NationalGuard-Soccer.jpg?w=2000 2000w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/NationalGuard-Soccer.jpg?w=300 300w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/NationalGuard-Soccer.jpg?w=768 768w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/NationalGuard-Soccer.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/NationalGuard-Soccer.jpg?w=1536 1536w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/NationalGuard-Soccer.jpg?w=540 540w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/NationalGuard-Soccer.jpg?w=1000 1000w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" /> </div> <div class="wide-story-card__text flex flex-col xl:flex-row gap-4 xl:gap-10 flex-1 text-summaryGrayDark xl:text-summaryGrayLight xl:group-hover:text-accentLight xl:group-focus:text-accentLight"> <div class="flex-1 flex flex-col gap-2.5"> <div> <h2 class="text-white xl:text-body xl:group-hover:text-accentLight xl:group-focus:text-accentLight font-bold text-xl leading-[1.1] m-0"> The National Guard Knows Its Armories Have Dangerous Lead Contamination, Putting Kids and Soldiers At Risk </h2> </div> <div class="wide-story-card__byline font-mono text-[13px] leading-[1.2]"> <p class="text-accentDark xl:text-accentLight not-italic inline-block">Nick Turse</p> <span>- <time datetime="2024-09-18 11:45:00">Sep. 18</time></span> </div> </div> <p class="flex-1 font-serif text-base tracking-[0.01em] leading-6">An Intercept investigation reveals that the Army National Guard has known about poisonous lead dust at armories open to the public for years, but is doing little to respond.</p> </div> </a> </article> <article class="wide-story-card"> <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/09/13/fbi-protest-terrorism-stop-camp-grayling-michigan/" class="group flex flex-col items-start sm:flex-row gap-4 sm:gap-10"> <div class="flex-1 xl:group-hover:bg-accentLight xl:group-focus:bg-accentLight"> <img width="768" height="350" src="https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/2148292-e1726146676578.jpg?fit=768%2C350" class="w-full xl:group-hover:opacity-90 xl:group-focus:opacity-90 object-cover aspect-[2/1] wp-post-image" alt="An Ohio National Guard Soldier from the St. Marys, Ohio, Company A, Special Troops Battalion, 37th Brigade throws a grappling hook in order to identify possible enemy mines during training at Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center, Grayling, Mich., Aug. 21, 2015. The Soldier is participating in the eXportable combat training capability program designed to certify platoon proficiency in coordination with 1st Army. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by 1st. Lt. Tyler Piper/Released)" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/2148292-e1726146676578.jpg?w=5184 5184w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/2148292-e1726146676578.jpg?w=2400 2400w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/2148292-e1726146676578.jpg?w=3600 3600w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" /> </div> <div class="wide-story-card__text flex flex-col xl:flex-row gap-4 xl:gap-10 flex-1 text-summaryGrayDark xl:text-summaryGrayLight xl:group-hover:text-accentLight xl:group-focus:text-accentLight"> <div class="flex-1 flex flex-col gap-2.5"> <div> <h2 class="text-white xl:text-body xl:group-hover:text-accentLight xl:group-focus:text-accentLight font-bold text-xl leading-[1.1] m-0"> They Protested a Military Base Expansion. So the FBI Investigated Them as Terrorism Suspects. </h2> </div> <div class="wide-story-card__byline font-mono text-[13px] leading-[1.2]"> <p class="text-accentDark xl:text-accentLight not-italic inline-block">Cody Bloomfield</p> <span>- <time datetime="2024-09-13 06:00:00">Sep. 13</time></span> </div> </div> <p class="flex-1 font-serif text-base tracking-[0.01em] leading-6">FBI counterterror officials went in person to Michigan to spy on “Stop Camp Grayling” demonstrators, new documents reveal.</p> </div> </a> </article> <article class="wide-story-card"> <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/07/09/republican-platform-climate/" class="group flex flex-col items-start sm:flex-row gap-4 sm:gap-10"> <div class="flex-1 xl:group-hover:bg-accentLight xl:group-focus:bg-accentLight"> <img width="768" height="512" src="https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-2160490723-e1720556683998.jpg?fit=768%2C512" class="w-full xl:group-hover:opacity-90 xl:group-focus:opacity-90 object-cover aspect-[2/1] wp-post-image" alt="Visitors walk past a sign reading "Stop Extreme Heat Danger" at Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park, near Furnace Creek, during a heatwave impacting Southern California on July 7, 2024. Temperatures in Death Valley could reach as high as 130 degrees Farenheit (54 degrees Celsius) on Sunday, according to US National Weather Service. (Photo by ETIENNE LAURENT / AFP) (Photo by ETIENNE LAURENT/AFP via Getty Images)" decoding="async" loading="lazy" /> </div> <div class="wide-story-card__text flex flex-col xl:flex-row gap-4 xl:gap-10 flex-1 text-summaryGrayDark xl:text-summaryGrayLight xl:group-hover:text-accentLight xl:group-focus:text-accentLight"> <div class="flex-1 flex flex-col gap-2.5"> <div> <h2 class="text-white xl:text-body xl:group-hover:text-accentLight xl:group-focus:text-accentLight font-bold text-xl leading-[1.1] m-0"> GOP Platform Doesn’t Mention the Word “Climate” Once — Even After Hottest Year on Record </h2> </div> <div class="wide-story-card__byline font-mono text-[13px] leading-[1.2]"> <p class="text-accentDark xl:text-accentLight not-italic inline-block">Prem Thakker</p> <span>- <time datetime="2024-07-09 17:20:15">July 9</time></span> </div> </div> <p class="flex-1 font-serif text-base tracking-[0.01em] leading-6">The Trump-led 2024 Republican platform instead calls for an American Iron Dome and the largest deportation operation ever.</p> </div> </a> </article> <article class="wide-story-card"> <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/06/04/gainesville-florida-alachua-school-toxic-contaminated/" class="group flex flex-col items-start sm:flex-row gap-4 sm:gap-10"> <div class="flex-1 xl:group-hover:bg-accentLight xl:group-focus:bg-accentLight"> <img width="768" height="384" src="https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_0822.jpg?fit=768%2C384" class="w-full xl:group-hover:opacity-90 xl:group-focus:opacity-90 object-cover aspect-[2/1] wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_0822.jpg?w=5760 5760w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_0822.jpg?w=300 300w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_0822.jpg?w=768 768w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_0822.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_0822.jpg?w=1536 1536w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_0822.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_0822.jpg?w=540 540w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_0822.jpg?w=1000 1000w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_0822.jpg?w=2400 2400w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_0822.jpg?w=3600 3600w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" /> </div> <div class="wide-story-card__text flex flex-col xl:flex-row gap-4 xl:gap-10 flex-1 text-summaryGrayDark xl:text-summaryGrayLight xl:group-hover:text-accentLight xl:group-focus:text-accentLight"> <div class="flex-1 flex flex-col gap-2.5"> <div> <h2 class="text-white xl:text-body xl:group-hover:text-accentLight xl:group-focus:text-accentLight font-bold text-xl leading-[1.1] m-0"> For Decades, Officials Knew a School Sat on a Former Dump — and Did Little to Clean Up the Toxins </h2> </div> <div class="wide-story-card__byline font-mono text-[13px] leading-[1.2]"> <p class="text-accentDark xl:text-accentLight not-italic inline-block">Georgia Gee</p> <span>- <time datetime="2024-06-04 06:00:00">June 4</time></span> </div> </div> <p class="flex-1 font-serif text-base tracking-[0.01em] leading-6">In Gainesville, Florida, children are on the front lines of the hazards long ignored by local and state government officials.</p> </div> </a> </article> <article class="wide-story-card"> <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/04/03/madagascar-rio-tinto-mine-water-contamination/" class="group flex flex-col items-start sm:flex-row gap-4 sm:gap-10"> <div class="flex-1 xl:group-hover:bg-accentLight xl:group-focus:bg-accentLight"> <img width="768" height="384" src="https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/25-ft.jpg?fit=768%2C384" class="w-full xl:group-hover:opacity-90 xl:group-focus:opacity-90 object-cover aspect-[2/1] wp-post-image" alt="Razafihanta Flogone, 38, poses for a portrait inside her home in Ambinanibe in Fort-Dauphin, Madagascar, on July 11, 2023. Her husband Randriamanjaka Zeze used to fish where the port built by QMM is now located. They had to find new places to fish and she took on weaving to help support her family." decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/25-ft.jpg?w=3000 3000w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/25-ft.jpg?w=300 300w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/25-ft.jpg?w=768 768w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/25-ft.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/25-ft.jpg?w=1536 1536w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/25-ft.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/25-ft.jpg?w=540 540w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/25-ft.jpg?w=1000 1000w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/25-ft.jpg?w=2400 2400w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" /> </div> <div class="wide-story-card__text flex flex-col xl:flex-row gap-4 xl:gap-10 flex-1 text-summaryGrayDark xl:text-summaryGrayLight xl:group-hover:text-accentLight xl:group-focus:text-accentLight"> <div class="flex-1 flex flex-col gap-2.5"> <div> <h2 class="text-white xl:text-body xl:group-hover:text-accentLight xl:group-focus:text-accentLight font-bold text-xl leading-[1.1] m-0"> Rio Tinto’s Madagascar Mine Promised Prosperity. It Tainted a Community. </h2> </div> <div class="wide-story-card__byline font-mono text-[13px] leading-[1.2]"> <p class="text-accentDark xl:text-accentLight not-italic inline-block">Neha Wadekar</p> <span>- <time datetime="2024-04-03 05:00:00">Apr. 3</time></span> </div> </div> <p class="flex-1 font-serif text-base tracking-[0.01em] leading-6">The Anglo-Australian mining company is facing legal claims that it contaminated waterways and lakes with harmful levels of uranium and lead.</p> </div> </a> </article> <article class="wide-story-card"> <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/03/02/miami-seaquarium-animal-cruelty/" class="group flex flex-col items-start sm:flex-row gap-4 sm:gap-10"> <div class="flex-1 xl:group-hover:bg-accentLight xl:group-focus:bg-accentLight"> <img width="768" height="384" src="https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/AP23089704030139-miami-seaquarium.jpg?fit=768%2C384" class="w-full xl:group-hover:opacity-90 xl:group-focus:opacity-90 object-cover aspect-[2/1] wp-post-image" alt="The entrance to Miami Seaquarium is seen, Thursday, March 30, 2023, in Miami. An unlikely coalition of a theme park owner, animal rights group and NFL owner-philanthropist announced Thursday that a plan is in place to return Lolita, an orca that has lived at the Miami Seaquarium for more than 50 years, to her home waters in the Pacific Northwest. (Alie Skowronski/Miami Herald via AP)" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/AP23089704030139-miami-seaquarium.jpg?w=2500 2500w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/AP23089704030139-miami-seaquarium.jpg?w=300 300w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/AP23089704030139-miami-seaquarium.jpg?w=768 768w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/AP23089704030139-miami-seaquarium.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/AP23089704030139-miami-seaquarium.jpg?w=1536 1536w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/AP23089704030139-miami-seaquarium.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/AP23089704030139-miami-seaquarium.jpg?w=540 540w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/AP23089704030139-miami-seaquarium.jpg?w=1000 1000w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/AP23089704030139-miami-seaquarium.jpg?w=2400 2400w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" /> </div> <div class="wide-story-card__text flex flex-col xl:flex-row gap-4 xl:gap-10 flex-1 text-summaryGrayDark xl:text-summaryGrayLight xl:group-hover:text-accentLight xl:group-focus:text-accentLight"> <div class="flex-1 flex flex-col gap-2.5"> <div> <h2 class="text-white xl:text-body xl:group-hover:text-accentLight xl:group-focus:text-accentLight font-bold text-xl leading-[1.1] m-0"> Federal Probes, Sick Animals, and Fed-Up Vets: The Miami Seaquarium Is on the Brink of Collapse </h2> </div> <div class="wide-story-card__byline font-mono text-[13px] leading-[1.2]"> <p class="text-accentDark xl:text-accentLight not-italic inline-block">Prem Thakker</p> <span>- <time datetime="2024-03-02 12:36:16">Mar. 2</time></span> </div> </div> <p class="flex-1 font-serif text-base tracking-[0.01em] leading-6">Several veterinary staff recently quit 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