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Greg Schwartz

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  • Investigative Reporter and Contributing Editor, PopMatters
  • Journalist, Freelance
  • None, Freelance, PopMatters
San Rafael
As seen in: PopMatters, Medium, MSN, Substack, Flipboard, EcoWatch, EIN News, East Bay Express, CounterPunch, San Antonio Current, Total Pro Sports and
Covers:  Energy, environmental justice, civil rights, human rights, politics, international relations, social justice, economic justice, hidden history, music, film, sports, pop culture.
Doesn't Cover: real estate, education
Award-Winning Investigative Reporter + Music Writer w/ PopMatters | Shining a light through the darkness of this world gone mad 🌎⚡️🎸🛸🕉

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Greg M. Schwartz is an award-winning investigative journalist with two decades of experience covering public affairs across an array of news sectors, with a focus on environmental justice issues. Leveraging a proven track record for digging deeper than the mainstream media to uncover fresh dirt on the powers that be, he is a valuable asset for news outlets of any size that seek to uphold the watchdog mission of the 4th Estate.

Throughout his career, Greg has covered big picture stories with na…

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A Rude Awakening: Bayview Hunters Point Superfund Site | KPFA

A Rude Awakening: Bayview Hunters Point Superfund Site | KPFA

On today’s show, San Francisco Bayview Hunters Point Shipyard is still a superfund site and still poisoning t…

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The Gaslighting of San Francisco at the Hunters Point Shipyard

The Gaslighting of San Francisco at the Hunters Point Shipyard

With the Navy and EPA now again scapegoating contractor labs for detecting contaminants inconvenient to clean…

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NE Ohio Nuclear Waste Superfund Site Exposes EPA Collusion + Nuke Industry Playbook to Avoid Cleanup

NE Ohio Nuclear Waste Superfund Site Exposes EPA Collusion + Nuke Industry Playbook to Avoid Cleanup

Greg Schwartz was the featured guest on this week's episode of the Nuclear Hotseat podcast. He discusses his …

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Sun Ra Arkestra Deliver Medicine for a Nightmare " PopMatters

Sun Ra Arkestra Deliver Medicine for a Nightmare " PopMatters

Cosmic jazz's Sun Ra Arkestra have become one of the most enduring groups, thanks to their unique blend of dy…

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Risky Business Continues at Diablo Canyon

Risky Business Continues at Diablo Canyon

Independent experts have deemed the aging Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant unsafe & unneeded, so why are Unc…

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Jesse Welles Sings Out for Truth and Justice " PopMatters

Jesse Welles Sings Out for Truth and Justice " PopMatters

Jesse Welles is being hailed as the new voice of a generation and his milestone tour stop at San Francisco's …

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BottleRock 2026 Turns Napa Valley into a Musical Paradise

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Memorial Day weekend has become a particularly festive holiday occasion in the San Francisco Bay Area, thanks to the BottleRock Napa Valley music festival. The annual event at the Napa County Fairgrounds always heralds “the first taste of summer”, a signature tag line that’s grown undeniable. BottleRock has become a regional tradition for celebrating the good life with arguably the most diverse artist lineup of any major festival in America.
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Leah Song Stands Strong at the Crossroads of Art and Activism

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The Hudson River Music Festival in New York is a revival of a traditional event conceived by folk music legend Pete Seeger and his wife, Toshi, who put together the Hudson River Revival to give music fans a chance to appreciate the river while also organizing efforts to clean it up.
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The Gaslighting of San Francisco at the Hunters Point Shipyard

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The cleanup at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard along the bay in San Francisco’s southeast corner remains a huge headache for the Navy, the City, and the citizens of the Bayview/Hunters Point neighborhood. The shipyard was listed as an EPA Superfund site in 1989 due to the radioactive mess left behind by the Navy, […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.
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Awards

Lone Star Award - Houston Press Club

2010 - Investigative Reporting

Awarded for "Crime Scene Cleanup", a 2009 San Antonio Current cover story on the city's "Toxic Triangle" area. Residents of the poor Mexican-American neighborhood adjacent to the former Kelly Air Force Base suffer an unusually high rate of cancer that local activists suggest is related to living above the chemical plumes coming from the base. Greg's story revealed that a cancer expert had his study on the area suspiciously squelched and discredited after it concluded that some of the cancers may indeed be attributable to living above the chemical plumes. This is not what San Antonio Metro Health and their military partners wanted to hear... See: Crime Scene Cleanup As evidence in the Toxic Triangle whodunit disappears, so does the possibility of justice for its victims - 4/29/09 http://www2.sacurrent.com/news/story.asp?id=70108