The part about the paragraph with the emissions numbers just being gone really hits home. I had the same thing happen with a local paper here, a story about a chemical leak got trimmed down overnight and the whole section naming the company was cut out. I only caught it because I had pasted the text into a note file for a friend who worked nearby. Now I do the same thing you do, run it through a couple of save services first. For tools, I use the Wayback Machine's save page now and archive.today, and I keep a copy in a plain text file too since sometimes the screenshots miss stuff. Have you tried saving the print view of the page? That version usually keeps the full text longer before they scrub it.

That line about a dull needle on a Tuesday in Milwaukee made me wince, because I read a blog post from a bookbinder last year who said the same thing happened to her. She kept track and found her needle went bad way faster than she expected, like every 8 to 10 hours of work. Now she swaps them out on a schedule instead of waiting for the shredding to start. I picked up the habit too and keep a little tin of spares right in the drawer. That 2am redo night is brutal and you only need it to happen once.