‘They Deserve To Be Heard’: Sick and Dying Coal Ash Cleanup Workers Fight for Their Lives
Co-published with The Guardian and Southerly. Hundreds of workers fell ill after cleaning up America’s largest industrial disaster without proper gear. Twelve years …
Coronavirus Strikes Latino Families Near California’s Salton Sea
Co-published with The Intercept. People who live near the dying lake are caught in a perfect storm of environmental neglect, poverty, and Covid-19.
America’s Radioactive Secret
Co-published with Rolling Stone. Oil-and-gas wells produce nearly a trillion gallons of toxic waste a year. An investigation shows how it could be making workers sick and …
Can You Afford to Be Green When You’re Not Rich? I Kept a Diary to Find Out
Co-published with The Guardian. Politicians and corporations have placed the burden of environmental responsibility on the consumer – but how easy is it to go green when …
Honey Bees, Worker Bees, and the Economic Violence of Land Grabs
Co-published with Longreads. Melissa Chadburn challenges her own belief that environmental justice issues are reserved for people of privilege.
My Small Town is Being Poisoned by Fracking Waste
Co-published with The Guardian. In a tiny south-eastern Ohio town in the Appalachian foothills, the Hazel Ginsburg Well is holding waste from out-of-state fracking operations – a …
The North Dakota Fracking Boom
Co-published with AlterNet. This is a story about one tribal nation grappling with the stresses of life during oil time - housing, traffic, crime, crowds, their …