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Chris Hamby

Staff Writer  The Center for Public Integrity
chamby@publicintegrity.org
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Chris Hamby’s reporting on the environment and workplace safety has been recognized with the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, two Sigma Delta Chi awards and the Upton Sinclair Memorial Award.  He has also been a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Scripps Howard Award for Environmental Reporting and the IRE Award.  His work includes computer-assisted reporting, and he previously worked at the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting’s database library. He has a master’s degree in journalism with a concentration in investigative reporting from the University of Missouri and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Richmond. In 2010, he completed a yearlong re-examination of a controversial murder case, supported in part by an investigative reporting fellowship. His writing about policy, politics, the criminal justice system and public health has appeared online and in newspapers and magazines.

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An exemption carved out two decades ago allows some fertilizer and other chemical facilities to skirt stricter rules and inspections.

A survey of refinery workers found deep concern about the handling of hydrofluoric acid and recommends safer alternatives

UPDATED APRIL 18: The U.S. Chemical Safety Board, which probes chemical accidents, is under attack for its slow investigative pace.

Senators propose tighter workplace safety rules, targeting breakdowns highlighted in Center for Public Integrity reports.

House Democrats are pushing a bill requiring safety steps to curb combustible dust explosions -- a hazard examined in a 2012 Center report.

Regulators should launch an enforcement blitz of companies using large numbers of contingent workers, a nonprofit group concludes.

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis leaves behind a department advocates say increased enforcement but left worker safety rules unfinished.

Following jobsite fatalities, OSHA vows crackdowns -- but sometimes collects nothing, a Center investigation found.

In a recent enforcement blitz, federal inspectors cited more than a dozen mines for problems that could expose workers to the disease.

A conflict in Detroit symbolizes a larger national debate over oil company plans to step up refining of heavier, dirtier crude from Alberta.

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