MuckRock and the Cicero Independiente hosted “The Air We Breathe” event in Cicero, outside Chicago, to share our initial findings on the town’s air pollution with the community.

The DocumentCloud team has released a new UI for Add-Ons, making it easier to activate, pin, schedule, or edit future runs of your favorite DocumentCloud Add-Ons. This redesign allows users to start running an Add-On with fewer clicks, adds Add-Ons to the sidebar for easier access, provides dedicated views for Add-Ons you have used in the past, and a clearer drop-down menus for ones you have scheduled, a view for your past and future Add-On runs and clearer edit buttons for scheduled Add-On runs.

The future of a proposed expansion of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Program is uncertain after being stripped from a federal defense bill during negotiations.

MuckRock’s first two rounds of Gateway Grantees are using DocumentCloud to reveal those secretly profiting from the destruction of Brazil’s rainforests, probe police misconduct in Chicago and much more. Now’s your chance to pitch a project that uses primary source documents to help inform and strengthen the public while leveraging AI, distributed storage and other leading technologies, baked right into DocumentCloud.

The St. Louis region has struggled for decades with contamination left over from the effort to develop the atomic bomb in the 1940s.

Congress provided the NIH with $1.15 billion to help patients in December 2020 — and the agency has now spent most of that funding, according to a detailed new budget breakdown shared with MuckRock and STAT, with the majority going towards observational research rather than clinical trials.

U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm visited a contaminated site in St. Charles County, saying: “There is no doubt that we have to clean up these sites and there’s no doubt that the testing and remediation is ongoing now…We’ve got to make sure that people feel safe.”

The MuckRock and DocumentCloud teams have made several platform upgrades and improvements, feature integrations and open source contributions over the last two months including editable titles of MuckRock requests, new Add-Ons for entity extraction, improving access to our DocumentCloud API and open sourcing our data and analysis techniques for our editorial collaborations.