California has set carbon-neutrality goals for 2045 in a move away from fossil fuels to combat global warming. Kern County, where oil and gas production is a key industry, is at the epicenter of this transition’s push and pull. KVPR News’ Joshua Yeager and Inside Climate News’ Emma Foehringer Merchant are tracking the developments in the changing energy landscape. | Investigative Editing Corps
With 19 in-custody deaths in 2022, Riverside County experienced the deadliest year in a decade in the county’s jails. The spike in deaths happened as the jails grappled with a national fentanyl crisis and a burgeoning mental health population. The deaths gave the jail the third highest death rate among large California counties in 2022. Of the 16 coroner’s reports reviewed by Black Voice News, ten of the deaths were listed as accidental overdoses or suicides. Several families of peop...| Investigative Editing Corps
Top: Judge David Paris runs the Sagadahoc County Probate Court without a permanent courtroom. Paris wasn’t even provided a robe, his wife ordered him a set online. He holds hearings in the county commissioners’ room, grand jury room or even the lunchroom. Still, he says, he runs his court like any other judge and as professionally as he can. (Photo by Fred J. Field)| Investigative Editing Corps
Rose Ciotta, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editor, is the founder and executive director of Investigative Editing Corps which aims to help local news organizations do investigative reporting. She co-edited an investigation of violence in the Philadelphia schools that won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service for The Philadelphia Inquirer. She is the investigations and projects editor at EdSource, an award-winning education news website based in Oakland, Ca. An alumna of the Joh...| Investigative Editing Corps
