Friday, September 25, 2026

Cezary Podkul

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Cezary is a reporter at ProPublica covering New York. Previously, he worked as a reporter at Reuters specializing in data-driven news stories. His work with Carrick Mollenkamp for Reuters’s “Uneasy Money” series was a finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. He has covered energy and commodities and the private equity industry, among other beats, after leaving investment banking in 2008 to pursue journalism. Since July 2015, he has spearheaded ProPublica’s reporting on state and local New York City issues, including regulators’ failure to enforce rent laws.

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The Charles R. Huntley Generating Station in Tonawanda, New York. Photo: Andre Carrotflower / CC BY-SA 4.0

EPA finalizes repeal of power plant carbon standards as environmental groups sue

The sector accounts for nearly one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and the agency separately proposed ending its authority to regulate them.
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building in Washington, D.C. Photo: Farragutful / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Democratic attorneys general say Education Department is hiding 1,300 documents on its layoffs

A privilege log lists nearly 1,300 records the agency says are too sensitive to hand over.
The lobby of the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago. Photo: Daderot (public domain)

7,000 Chicago hotel workers vote to authorize strike

A union survey found a third of members cannot cover rent or mortgage payments, and the last hotel strike in the city, in 2018, lasted about a month.
A patient exam room at a U.S. urgent care clinic. Photo: Harrison Keely / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Vance-led task force moves to strip 760,000 people of ACA coverage

Advocates say the crackdown follows 8 million coverage losses already tied to Trump-era health cuts.
Demonstrators protest ICE conduct in Minneapolis. Photo: Fibonacci Blue / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Federal judge blocks deportation of man shot by ICE during Austin delivery run

DHS and the man's attorney give conflicting accounts of the medical care he has received since.