Drilled News — I conceived and produced this series of local 2020 election and environmental racism stories, the inaugural reporting project of Drilled Local.
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SIERRA Magazine — Major emitters fail to make greenhouse gas reduction commitments at the United Nations’ latest high level climate meeting.
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The Revelator — President Trump promised massive deregulation — and although he’s lost some cases in court, his successes still threaten people’s health and the climate.
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Audubon News — The Coastal Resources Barrier Act protects 3.5 million acres of bird habitat and saves taxpayers billions—but it uses decades-old, hand-drawn maps.
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HuffPost — If Judge Brett Kavanaugh becomes Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh, activists who regularly use the courts to protect wildlife will need to rethink their legal strategies. In his 12 years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Kavanaugh has decided against protections in 17― or about 95 percent of the time.
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Popular Science — New cases, shifting strategies, and the uncertainty of a reshuffled bench
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HuffPost — The newest wave of climate change lawsuits doesn’t target states or the federal government, or even the power plants that spew planet-warming pollution. They involve cities and counties who want to go after the oil, natural gas and coal producers directly, demanding money to help them cover the escalating costs of wildfires, landslides and other climate-linked disasters.
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Reveal/Center for Investigative Reporting—The Trump administration's nominee to lead NASA is a climate change denier with no sci-tech background. If he's confirmed, he'll be able to set the nation's climate science agenda for years to come.
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Reveal/Center for Investigative Reporting—Seven months into his presidency, Donald Trump has yet to fill dozens of science leadership roles at federal agencies. Of Trump’s 12 nominees and appointees, six have worked for the industries they would regulate or award contracts to.
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Arctic Deeply—Indigenous Saami communities are expressing concerns about a proposal to build a railway across northern Norway and Finland, saying that the line would disrupt their reindeer herding traditions.
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Oceans Deeply—Imagine the weight of 80 million blue whales, the largest animal to ever roam the planet. That’s how much plastic has been produced over the past seven decades, growing from 2 million metric tons in 1950 at the dawn of the era of petroleum-based plastic, to more than 400 million metric tons annually in 2015.
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Men's Journal—The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers have released a proposal to rollback the "Waters of the U.S." rule, or WOTUS. Finalized by the Obama administration in 2015, the rule tackled a longstanding ambiguity in the original Clean Water Act — where state, local, or private oversight of a wetland or small waterway ends, and federal jurisdiction begins.
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Arctic Deeply—The World Wildlife Fund spent 18 months scoring how well Arctic nations are meeting their environmental goals. But as the WWF Arctic Programme’s communications chief Clive Tesar explains, the grades are just part of a bigger picture.
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Arctic Deeply—By including $1.8 billion in oil and gas revenues from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in its 2018 budget, the Trump administration has set out to dismantle former president Barack Obama’s conservation and climate legacies in the American Arctic.
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Oceans Deeply—An international study finds that protecting huge swathes of the ocean offers the best chance to save coral reefs, marine life and coastal areas vital to human health from the impacts of global warming.
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