Joaquín A. Rosado Lebrón | Centro de Periodismo Investigativo

In the absence of protection and a safe home, and the discrimination aggravated by factors such as religious ideologies, the Waves Ahead organization is developing housing projects aimed at these populations while bills to amend local laws are in limbo.

An investigation by Puerto Rico's Centro de Periodismo Investigativo and El Nuevo Día identified a pattern of discrimination against these populations in long-term care centers and elderly homes due, in part, to the lack of professional training and guidance from the Family and Housing departments.

Since 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) began to demand that seven companies that use ethylene oxide to sterilize medical equipment in Puerto Rico take measures to mitigate impacts on communities, such as the danger of cancer from long-term exposure. But it will not be until 2023 that there will be a regulation in place […]

Fourteen of the 42 monitors that the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DRNA, in Spanish) used to measure air pollutants harmful to health throughout Puerto Rico are out of service, some for as long as five years, a Center for Investigative Journalism investigation found.