Affordable’ energy, yogis + Baptists, & toxic Camp Lejeune
Each time he wants to announce an environmental regulation rollback, President Trump visits West Virginia. The state voted overwhelmingly for him in 2016, the coal industry continues to…
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…
Rate hikes, border zones, & Walter Anderson’s landscapes
When the board of directors for Tennessee Valley Authority—the country’s largest public power utility that serves 9 million people in seven Southern states—unanimously approved a new “grid…
The biomass debacle, West Virginia’s déjà vu, & the dangers of offshore drilling
At a meeting with forest industry leaders in Cochran, Georgia last month, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced that burning biomass, like trees, to produce…
Cookie-cutter bills, the walk from Selma to Montgomery, & restricted beaches
Quietly, during the first few weeks of 2018, the American Legislative Exchange Council, a powerful conservative lobbying organization, finalized model legislation for the “Critical Infrastructure Protection Act.” The bill…