Thank you to the Society of Environmental Journalists for recognizing our series with this FIRST PLACE award for 'Outstanding Investigative Reporting.'

I’m a few weeks late in posting this, but so, so honored that our series on pollution from the oil and gas industry in Louisiana was recognized by the Society of Environmental Journalists as the first place winner in the Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding Investigative Reporting in a Large Newsroom.

Read more about the award here: https://www.sej.org/winners-sej-19th-annual-awards-reporting-environment#carmody-large and read the full series here: https://www.propublica.org/series/polluters-paradise.