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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.

Coverage areas

Companies exempt from some inspections under a special OSHA program should face tighter scrutiny, a report finds, echoing a Center series.

Research supports proposal to reduce coal miners’ exposure to dust that causes deadly disease, a GAO report found.

One of the nation’s largest impoundments of the often-toxic byproducts of burning coal must stop accepting waste by 2016.

House Republicans have inserted language in a budget bill that would kill a proposed rule to protect coal miners from deadly dust.

Government experts are considering ways to step up coal mine dust enforcement after a CPI-NPR investigation.

Despite decades-old law, cheating, legal loopholes expose miners to deadly dust.

After bureaucratic hurdles, industry pushback and political calculations, there is no fix in sight.

Those living in the shadow of an Iowa corn processing plant allege damage from years of air pollution.

Energy Department didn't involve Treasury Department until loan to now-bankrupt company was largely finalized, report says

Following years of citizen complaints about polluted air, the EPA alleges repeated violations at Iowa corn processing plant.

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