Red tides, unpaid taxes, & halted pipelines
Every summer growing up, my family traveled to Florida for a week-long beach vacation. Usually we went to Destin, but one year we drove six more…
Black farmers, living shorelines, & a carbon tax
Earlier this year, a group of black farmers in Mississippi planted more than $100,000 worth of certified soybean seeds they purchased from Stine Seed Company. Not…
The Upper Mississippi, endangered red wolves, & Florida fires
As I walked across the headwaters of the Mississippi River at Lake Itasca in Minnesota, I couldn’t help but think about the Gulf of Mexico. The…
Livestock waste lagoons, black cowboys, & skeptical miners
The room was packed on Tuesday for a Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality hearing in Pike County, Mississippi. For the second time in two months, residents…
Dead zones, eucalyptus, & pipeline booms
Every summer, a “dead zone” area of oxygen-deprived water forms in the Gulf of Mexico. For the last few years, it’s been steadily growing, and this…