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Jim Morris

Senior Reporter  The Center for Public Integrity
jmorris@publicintegrity.org
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Jim Morris has been a journalist since 1978, specializing in coverage of the environment and public health. He has won more than 50 awards for his work, including the George Polk award, the Sidney Hillman award, the Sigma Delta Chi award, and five Texas Headliners awards. He directed a global investigation of the asbestos industry that won the first-place John B. Oakes award for environmental reporting from Columbia University in 2011 and an IRE Medal from Investigative Reporters and Editors. He has worked for newspapers in Texas and California as well as publications such as U.S. News & World Report and Congressional Quarterly in Washington. This is his second stint at the Center.

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During a Senate subcommittee hearing last Thursday, Democratic Sen. Al Franken repeatedly cited the story’s key finding: that BP refineries

Reacting to health worries about chemical dispersants used in the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg intro

For the past year, the Canadian Public Health Association has sought details on the financial relationship between Canada’s Ministry of Natu

UPDATED BP will pay a $50.6 million penalty and spend at least $500 million to upgrade its Texas City, Texas, refinery where a 2005 explosio

The Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it would issue new rules for three chemicals used in dyes, flame retardants, laund

Brain cancer trial may influence science on toxic chemical

A McCullom Lake, Ill., plant, operated by Rohm and Haas, a subsidiary of Dow Chemical Co., is at the root of a potentially groundbreaking la

A long-delayed government epidemiological study of possible ties between diesel exhaust and lung cancer in miners may finally be published t

Lame duck Congress may consider bill to toughen OSHA

For an agency so widely feared and demonized by American business, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is a relative pushover.

Global scientists express concern about flame retardants

A published statement by 145 scientists from 22 countries expresses new worries about the health effects of flame retardants used in mattres

A 2007 federal law envisioned a bright future for cellulosic ethanol, an environment-friendly fuel made of wood chips, switch grass, corn st

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