[CPEO-MEF] Propublica's "Reporting Recipe" for Defense Department contamination

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Reporting Recipe: Bombs in Your Backyard
We published data on 40,000 hazardous sites across the country polluted by U.S. military operations. Here’s how journalists can use the data to find local stories.

by Ryann Grochowski Jones and Abrahm Lustgarden 
ProPublica
November 30, 2017

 
For the past year, ProPublica has been documenting the state of toxic pollution left behind by the military across the U.S. As part of this investigation, we acquired a dataset of all facilities that the Department of Defense considers contaminated. Today we used the data to publish an interactive news application called Bombs in Your Backyard. Here’s how you can use it to find hazardous sites near you - and what, if anything, is being done to remedy the pollution.

The data, which has never been released before, comes from the Defense Environmental Restoration Program, which the DOD administers to measure and document cleanup efforts at current and former military locations.

There are a lot of great local investigative stories waiting to be done with the data. This reporting recipe is meant to help you find and report ones near you.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.propublica.org/article/reporting-recipe-bombs-in-your-backyard

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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