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Joe Wertz

Reporter

The Center for Public Integrity

Joe Wertz is a reporter with The Center for Public Integrity.

Joe Wertz is a reporter with The Center for Public Integrity's environment and labor team.Wertz previously worked as a managing editor and senior reporter at StateImpact Oklahoma, a journlaism collaboration of public rqadio stations in Oklahoma.

A single white cross is shown on a small dirt area amongst a wide open grassy field.

A common fertilizer can cause explosions. Uneven regulation puts people at risk.

Growing Food, Sowing Trouble

Nearly seven years after a blast in Texas killed 15 people and injured 260, oversight of ammonium nitrate remains a patchwork and public information is scarce

A farm tractor is shown in a large green field with wind turbines in the background.

Farming’s growing problem

Growing Food, Sowing Trouble