The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.
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In today’s newsletter: NIH ends funding to study the health effects of climate change; a secretive NYPD unit backed by Eric Adams; the doublespeak of energy Secretary Chris Wright; and more from our newsroom.
It’s unclear whether the guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future studies. One climate health expert said the directive would have a “devastating” impact on much-needed research.
Annie Waldman, who cowrote today’s feature with Sharon Lerner, wants to learn about what’s going on inside federal health agencies — for example, the National Institutes of Health, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — and how their actions affect everyday Americans. If you have information for her or another of our reporters, get in touch.
As a former police captain, New York City Mayor Eric Adams railed against the injustices of gung-ho policing, but as the mayor, he has embraced a unit that perpetuates it.
ProPublica interviewed more than a dozen former and current members of the New York Police Department, reviewed internal department records and watched video footage of several police encounters.
We found that Adams has been backing an elite NYPD unit called the Community Response Team, which is led by his longtime allies and riddled with abuses. One man died after officers in the unit swerved their unmarked police car into his motorcycle.
