Meg Wilcox is an environmental journalist covering environmental health, energy, agriculture and fisheries. Her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, National Geographic, Ensia, Next City, Civil Eats and Greenbiz.
The fund manages retirement savings for hundreds of thousands of Mississippi teachers, police officers and other public workers, and a shareholder case like it can force a company to hand over internal records.
The Lever's latest investigations trace a California retirement chief's oil and gas stock trading and a spreading set of antitrust suits over who builds America's fire engines.
Under an intensifying trade war, parts of northern Michigan are feeling the financial pain. But with a president intent on conflict and a congressman silent on the issue, these Michiganders see no sign of relief.