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Allie Tempus is a staff writer at FairWarning (fairwarning.org) — a nonprofit investigative news organization that focuses on public health, consumer, workplace and environmental issues, and related topics of government and business accountability. was most recently associate editor of The Progressive magazine. She is a veteran climate journalist and the recipient of three climate reporting fellowships, with bylines in Rolling Stone, Orion, The Nation, The Progressive, Vice News, and elsewhere. Previously, she was a researcher at Rolling Stone, The Intercept, and BuzzFeed, and before that served as a lead researcher on Naomi Klein’s 2014 bestseller This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate. Tempus was also a reporting intern at Wisconsin Watch in 2010. She reads almost exclusively nonfiction, listens to a lot of comedy podcasts, and drinks too much lemon-flavored seltzer.
U.S. attorneys in Milwaukee and Madison and state officials ask consumers to report fraudulent cures and claims related to the COVID-19 pandemic.