Peter S. Goodman

In Arizona Desert, Taiwanese Families Create Community and Build a Factory

And one more on the rise of a Little Taipei in Phoenix, as workers arrive from Taiwan with needed skills. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/b...

A Growing U.S. Tech Hub Needs Workers. Colleges Try to Keep Up.

Here's an accompanying piece on how local university systems including @arizonastateuni.bsky.social and Maricopa Community Colleges are moving aggressively to train needed local workers. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/b...

18,000 Reasons It’s So Hard to Build a Chip Factory in America

Why is it so hard to construct major projects in the US? I looked at TSMC's computer chip factories in Phoenix, a $165 billion investment, and came away with 18,000 reasons. Our story with extraordinary photos from Loren Elliott. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/b...

The ‘Clean’ Technology That’s Poisoning People

Please give a listen to today's episode of @nytimes.com The Daily which features our joint investigation with @theexamination.org on horrific lead poisoning of communities in Nigeria as part of recycling of lead used to make car batteries in the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/p...

Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market BOSTON—Stressing that the move would help keep digital currencies liquid through the coming year, crypto leaders called for an infusion of 20 million dopes Thursday to stabilize the market. “We’re cal...

Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market

Is this the part of the movie where German banks start buying crypto exchanges?

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour Recycled lead used in U.S. auto batteries linked to poisoning in African communities

Just went on @pbsnews.org News Hour to talk about our investigation with @theexamination.org on lead poisoning from lead recycling in Nigeria. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqwS...

Video: Recycling Lead for U.S. Car Batteries Is Poisoning People Recycling lead for U.S. car batteries is poisoning children — and we know because we tested them. Will Fitzgibbon, a reporter at The Examination, describes how children in Nigeria developed lead level...

Here's my reporting partner, @willfitzgibbon.bsky.social in a terrific video on the impacts of lead poisoning in the communities in Nigeria that we focused on in our investigation of lead recycling. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

Read our latest investigation with @nytimes.com 👇 www.theexamination.org/articles/bat...

Thanks Jesse!

Excellent article tracing the supply chain of lead back to factories in Nigeria that are poisoning residents.

American companies like Amazon, Lowe’s and carmakers all use them.

@petersgoodman.bsky.social & @willfitzgibbon.bsky.social:

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I hear you

Thank you so much! Delighted to hear this

Thanks so much!

8/ But, she added, they have money for one meal a day, leaving nothing for toys or other distractions. She does what she can, but there it is. This is the context for the lead coming into the US, where we use it to make car batteries found under the hoods of millions of cars.

7/ As a dad, I can't shake one simple experience. I watched a four-year-old girl who lives right next to one of the worst lead smelters playing in the dirt with a broken plastic spoon, then putting it in her mouth. Her grandmother told me she knows the dirt is tainted...

6/ The people in the villages we visited do not have that option. We commissioned scientists to test blood and found alarming levels of lead -- especially in children, where the neurological harms can be irreversible.

5/ The supply chain for lead batteries is so complex and involves so many different players that it has effectively been engineered to avoid accountability. Every link in the chain may plausibly claim that poisoning people in Nigeria was someone else's fault.

How We Linked the Auto Industry to Lead Poisoning

4/ This lays out how we conducted the investigation: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/w...

Video: The Real Cost of U.S. Car Batteries We followed the supply chain for batteries used in millions of U.S. cars to villages in Nigeria where people are being poisoned by lead. Peter S. Goodman, who covers economics and geopolitics for The ...

3/ Here's a video we made on the supply chain. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

2/ We've been working on this for a year with an extraordinary reoporting partner @willfitzgibbon.bsky.social at @theexamination.org Between us, we took several trips to Nigeria and unraveled the supply chain for lead through the port of Baltimore to a major car battery manufacturer in Pennsylvania.

The Auto Industry’s Lead Recycling Program is Poisoning People (Gift Article) We documented the toxic fallout of a green technology.

The auto industry will tell you the car battery is a perfect example of recycling in action. Here's the part they prefer you not see: the lead poisoning of entire villages around the world to produce lead used to make batteries in the US and other rich countries
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Why do otherwise intelligent people insist on referring to Milei economics as “radical free market” while pointing to his insistence on “maintaining a strong peso to crush inflation? In a truly free market the peso would sink like a stone.

Recalling that 3yrs ago when my book DAVOS MAN came out depicting @mbenioff.bsky.social as a guy who mostly cared about tax cuts and dereg, the one guy I encountered on media tour who pushed back and defended him was @profgalloway.com genuinely wondering what he thinks tonight

Ha! Hoping you find that worthwhile, too. I appreciate you

Why China Built 162 Square Miles of Solar Panels on the World’s Highest Plateau

Do not miss this excellent story from Keith Bradsher Why China Built 162 Square Miles of Solar Panels on the World’s Highest Plateau www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b...

Thank you so much!

‘The World’s Worst Bet’: Bill Clinton looks back on the world he built Bill Clinton looks back on his presidency and the impact of globalization on the US economy and politics

In which @davidjlynch.bsky.social gets Bill Clinton to acknowledge that liberalizing trade without attending to people who inevitably lose jobs has been disaster. Great excerpt from his new must read book www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

How This A.I. Company Collapsed Amid Silicon Valley’s Biggest Boom

In the AI boom, a lot of entrants are the next Pets.com. Clarifying story from David Streitfeld www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/t...

Lisa Cook Broke Ground at the Fed, Before Attack by Trump

Important context here from @bencasselman.bsky.social Lisa Cook Broke Ground at the Fed, Before Attack by Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/b...