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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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A new report on a 2008 explosion at a West Virginia pesticide factory offers a chilling account that raises questions about safeguards at th

A 2009 explosion in Corpus Christ sheds light on danger of toxic acid cloud

Refinery settles violations from ‘avoidable’ HF release

A Texas oil refinery featured in a joint Center for Public Integrity-ABC News investigation into the dangers of hydrofluoric acid has agreed

The nation’s refineries are plagued by equipment failures and sometimes-fatal accidents that in many cases could have been prevented.

A hydrofluoric acid leak from an oil refinery in Ohio sent a worker to the hospital

Contractors injured on the job, like Jose Herrera, have little means for redress

As communities battle toxic air, industry shapes EPA and state regulation.

Use of 'unapproved methods' by EPA put workers and public at risk of asbestos exposure, IG says

Did a $5B industry cover of the health risks of manganese to thousands of workers?

An Arizona town's long struggle with toxic air pollution

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