| Feb 9, 2022 | Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedWhen you work on climate, the news can often feel like one step forward, two steps back. But lately, ordinary people have been winning big victories to protect their communities — and our planet. Last November, for example, President Biden announced at the UN climate...
| Aug 18, 2021 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyOn the last night of a recent trip to Minneapolis, I walked along the Mississippi River waterfront. A young man, a worker with the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, asked if I had any questions. We spoke at length about the river and his job, which...
| Apr 21, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyEven as the Biden administration commits to environmental justice, people in the Fifth District of Louisiana’s St. James Parish are mobilizing to stop a Formosa plastics plant accused of environmental racism in the majority-Black community. The controversy offers a...
| Dec 2, 2020 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyA few years ago, massive protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock changed the popular narrative about what climate activism looked like. The protests made clear that ramming dangerous pipelines through vulnerable communities wasn’t going to be easy...
| Sep 2, 2020 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedAs I watched Hurricane Laura churn towards the Gulf Coast, I felt a familiar knot in my stomach. As a longtime first responder to natural disasters, I felt the same way before Hurricane Katrina in 2005, when Hurricane Michael hit the Florida Panhandle in 2018, and...
