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Greg Schwartz

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  • Investigative Reporter and Contributing Editor, PopMatters
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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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A Rude Awakening: Bayview Hunters Point Superfund Site | KPFA

A Rude Awakening: Bayview Hunters Point Superfund Site | KPFA

KPFA-FM (Berkeley, CA) — On today’s show, San Francisco Bayview Hunters Point Shipyard is still a superfund site and still poisoning the residents. We’ll start the hour with Arieann Harrison and Malik Washington of the Marie Harrison Community Foundation and Bradley Angel of Green Action for Health and Environmental Justice. Then the exhaustive, bombshell reporting by investigative journalist Greg Schwartz. His latest piece in Counterpunch is entitled, “The Gaslighting of San Francisco at the Hunters Point Shipyard”.
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The Gaslighting of San Francisco at the Hunters Point Shipyard

The Gaslighting of San Francisco at the Hunters Point Shipyard

CounterPunch — With the Navy and EPA now again scapegoating contractor labs for detecting contaminants inconvenient to cleanups – in samples from both Hunters Point and East Palestine, Ohio – it becomes imperative for the public to be able to view the records of the results and procedures in question at both labs. Former DOE official Thomas Grumbly cited the importance of being able to access such lab records in 1994, yet the EPA and Navy are still allowed to play hide and seek three decades later. Withholding these documents makes a mockery of claims about transparency from both the Navy at Hunters Point and the Trump EPA in East Palestine, Ohio.
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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

Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy — Greg Schwartz was the featured guest on this week's episode of the Nuclear Hotseat podcast. He discusses his reporting on how the Northeast Ohio superfund site Industrial Excess Landfill (IEL) has been shown to use questionable methodology, which enables the EPA to avoid observing levels of radioactivity that it prefers not to have to deal with at the IEL – despite flaws pointed out by the agency’s own Science Advisory Board. And the EPA rehires Tetra Tech for remediation despite numerous mistakes spotlighted by the Project on Government Oversight.
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Sun Ra Arkestra Deliver Medicine for a Nightmare " PopMatters

Sun Ra Arkestra Deliver Medicine for a Nightmare " PopMatters

PopMatters — Cosmic jazz's Sun Ra Arkestra have become one of the most enduring groups, thanks to their unique blend of dynamic musicianship and spiritually uplifting music.
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Risky Business Continues at Diablo Canyon

Risky Business Continues at Diablo Canyon

CounterPunch — Independent experts have deemed the aging Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant unsafe & unneeded, so why are Uncle Sam & California so intent on gambling to keep it open?
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Jesse Welles Sings Out for Truth and Justice " PopMatters

Jesse Welles Sings Out for Truth and Justice " PopMatters

PopMatters — Jesse Welles is being hailed as the new voice of a generation and his milestone tour stop at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore Auditorium shows why.
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The Trey Anastasio Band Shine a Guiding Light " PopMatters

The Trey Anastasio Band Shine a Guiding Light " PopMatters

PopMatters — Trey Anastasio's music might not be able to save the world per se, but it shines a light that provides spiritual sustenance for fans.
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Neil Young & the Chrome Hearts Rock for Rebellion " PopMatters

Neil Young & the Chrome Hearts Rock for Rebellion " PopMatters

PopMatters — The show soars to a multidimensional level on the electrifying “Be the Rain”, as Young sings what feels like a signature anthem for the Love Earth Tour: “Save the planet for another day / Don’t care what the governments say…” The climactic closing track of 2003’s Greendale concept record remains as timely now as the lyrics implore the audience to take action. “We got to wake up, We got to keep going / We got a job to do / We got to save Mother Earth.”
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Trump Executive Order Threatens 700 U.S. Wetlands; Leading Enviro Org Gears up for Battle - Envir...

Trump Executive Order Threatens 700 U.S. Wetlands; Leading Enviro Org Gears up for Battle - Envir...

EnviroNews — On Feb 20, 2025, the Center filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for illegally expediting the pending permits for projects that would “fill or destroy wetlands across the United States.” The Center asserts that bypassing standard environmental review of the permits in question will result in irreparable damage to important wetlands and waterways, in addition to threatening endangered species across the country.
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Biden's Refusal to Pardon Reality Winner Underscores Taboo on Questioning Electoral Integrity

Biden's Refusal to Pardon Reality Winner Underscores Taboo on Questioning Electoral Integrity

CounterPunch — Democrats spent much of Trump’s first term raising a ruckus about alleged Russian interference. Yet when actual evidence came to light in the report that Winner leaked, there were few who defended her courageous action.
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On Tour with King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard at the End of Days " PopMatters

On Tour with King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard at the End of Days " PopMatters

PopMatters — PopMatters hits the road for five shows in six days with the Australian psychedelic rock eco-rebels of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, who have taken the US by storm.
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Incubus Slay the Bay in Morning View XXIII Tour Finale " PopMatters

Incubus Slay the Bay in Morning View XXIII Tour Finale " PopMatters

PopMatters — Incubus ride high on tour supporting Morning View XXIII released in the spring, a re-recorded version of their 2001 classic that propelled them to stardom.
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What is the EPA Hiding at the Landfill in Uniontown, Ohio?

What is the EPA Hiding at the Landfill in Uniontown, Ohio?

CounterPunch — THE TWILIGHT ZONE - Picture if you will the citizens of a small town in Northeast Ohio, facing a daunting toxic threat yet trapped in a maze of regulatory capture at the so-called Environmental Protection Agency.
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Phish Level Up at Sphere in Las Vegas

Phish Level Up at Sphere in Las Vegas

PopMatters — Jam rock’s Phish at Las Vegas’ Sphere is like a sonic jackpot with all the bells and whistles that just keep paying out. It’s a wormhole to another dimension.
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Green Day Rock Out for Climate Justice and Human Rights

Green Day Rock Out for Climate Justice and Human Rights

PopMatters — It's downright heartwarming to see Green Day back in action, calling out the powers that be in 2024 and urging climate action. Long live rock!
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Susan Tedeschi's Blues Still Won't Burn " PopMatters

Susan Tedeschi's Blues Still Won't Burn " PopMatters

PopMatters — It's been 25 years since her debut album made a big splash in the blues rock scene, and Susan Tedeschi's fire is burning as bright as ever.
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The Radioactive Pacific Ocean

The Radioactive Pacific Ocean

CounterPunch — Is The IAEA Hiding Dangers of Releasing Fukushima’s Radioactive Wastewater into the Pacific Ocean?
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Lithium Wars Pt. 2: Teepee Camp Raided, Native Woman Arrested, Lawsuits Fly in Battle over Thacke...

Lithium Wars Pt. 2: Teepee Camp Raided, Native Woman Arrested, Lawsuits Fly in Battle over Thacke...

EnviroNews — LITHIUM MINING: PART OF A GREEN NEW DEAL OR GREEN COLONIALISM?
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Dead & Company Shine in Finale at San Francisco's Oracle Park " PopMatters

Dead & Company Shine in Finale at San Francisco's Oracle Park " PopMatters

PopMatters — A three-night run at the San Francisco Giants' ballpark finds Dead & Company at the top of their game, leaving the fans grateful.
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Talking Environmental Justice with Justin J. Pearson, the Legislator who Tennessee Republicans Tr...

Talking Environmental Justice with Justin J. Pearson, the Legislator who Tennessee Republicans Tr...

CounterPunch — Tennessee State Rep. Justin J. Pearson has become a progressive star ever since "the Tennessee Three" controversy this spring, when Republicans in the Volunteer State voted to remove him and another black legislator, Justin Jones from elected office.
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Bottlerock Napa Valley 2023 Delivers Another Intoxicating Experience " PopMatters

Bottlerock Napa Valley 2023 Delivers Another Intoxicating Experience " PopMatters

PopMatters — Bottlerock Napa Valley has arguably seized the crown as the premiere large-scale rock festival in California, with its allegiance to the Bay Area's rock heritage.
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Communities Rise Up to Resist Becoming "Sacrifice Zones"

Communities Rise Up to Resist Becoming "Sacrifice Zones"

CounterPunch — The problem of environmental regulatory agencies being captured by Big Polluters is a widespread national issue. According to the independent news service ProPublica, the EPA's own New Chemicals Division is itself currently subject of an EPA Inspector General's investigation into whistleblowers' allegations of corrupt industry influence over chemical approval processes.
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Warehouse Pits Locals Against Developers

Warehouse Pits Locals Against Developers

Tacoma Weekly — They Truly Want to Pave Paradise and Put Up a Parking Lot: "Imagine, if you will, a remediated EPA Superfund site, over a functioning but very vulnerable aquifer in a heavily impacted community with plans for a 2.5 million square foot warehouse directly over the Critical Aquifer Recharge Area. You’ve entered the ‘South Tacoma Twilight Zone…’”
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Reconsidering Pearl Jam's 'Yield' 25 Years On " PopMatters

Reconsidering Pearl Jam's 'Yield' 25 Years On " PopMatters

PopMatters — Pearl Jam's Yield is a rare album resonating as an instant classic from its first spin, with memorable and diverse songs demanding full listening.
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