It took four months for PublicSource to get into a room in Pittsburgh’s federal courthouse to look at sensitive reports about ammonia.
We were given 45 minutes to view scores of reports, which we could not copy.
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Bill Heltzel was a reporter for PublicSource between 2012 and 2014.
It took four months for PublicSource to get into a room in Pittsburgh’s federal courthouse to look at sensitive reports about ammonia.
We were given 45 minutes to view scores of reports, which we could not copy.