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…
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…
Land connections, climate gentrification, & science restrictions
It was a fairly simple question. “Where are your favorite camping spots?”I launched into stories about the Utah desert, the sunset I watched with tears rolling…
A Tennessee ICE raid, cancer-causing coal ash, & dystopian scenarios
Immigration authorities recently raided a meatpacking plant in Bean Station, a rural town in northeastern Tennessee, and arrested 97 people. Almost immediately, half of them were transferred…
The Mighty Mississippi’s troubles, rural LGBTQ rights, & another oil spill
Mississippi’s Big Sunflower River flows 250 miles before it hits the Yazoo River, a major tributary of the Mississippi River. The area surrounding Big Sunflower is…