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How a grassroots groundswell, legal challenges and political and technological sea changes combined to force Virginia’s most powerful company to abandon the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, pivot from natural gas and onto a cleaner energy path. “Hung up in the mountains” Tom Hadwin took
Is Natural Gas a Fossil Fuel with a Great Future Behind It?
As the pandemic sends shock waves through the energy industry, investors are rethinking their bets on America’s decade-long natural gas boom. On June 28th, Chesapeake Energy filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It was a long-expected announcement. The hydraulic fracturing pioneer – launched by
The Limits of Disturbance
With its permitting authority over natural gas infrastructure, the little-known Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has sweeping power over individual citizens’ property and our collective climate trajectory. Critics say that reforming its pipeline review process should be high on President Joe Biden’s agenda.
No Justice in Veracruz, as Journalist’s Death is Unsolved
The death of reporter Regina Martinez was almost too much for her colleagues to bear.
Four others already had been murdered in Veracruz state in the first two years of Gov. Javier Duarte’s term
The House Over Hades
In June of 1996, Kathi Loughlin’s phone rang at work. It was her child’s nanny, and she was frantic. “Something is going on here, you need to come home,” the nanny said, a note of panic in her voice. Loughlin had trouble understanding
The Unique Art of Sign Painting in Los Angeles
Known for its sweet potato pies, the long-established 27th Street Bakery at 2700 S. Central Avenue, also is distinguished by its red and white exterior and painted signage, done in all caps san serif black letters shadowed in gray.
Living on the Fence Line: A History of Chemical Threats to Black Communities
West Virginia State University, a 125-year-old historically black university, rested for decades on the fence line of a pesticide manufacturer, a stone’s throw from tanks holding lethal amounts of one of the world’s most dangerous and infamous chemicals, methyl isocyanate. The chemical, known
Death by Dust
Tammy Miser got the call late at night from a family friend. Her brother Shawn may have been injured in a work accident and it might be serious. Shawn Boone was a maintenance man at the Hayes Lemmerz plant in Huntington, Ind., a
Coachella Valley Farm Workers
I had been working on making photos about farm workers very slowly over the years and in 2015 l received a Fellowship from The Alicia Patterson Foundation which allowed me to dedicate the time, focus and thought to the work that it deserved.
America’s Industrial Accident Investigators: Their Uphill Battle to Prevent Disasters
Fellowship Year Before dawn, Jim Gannon kissed his sleeping wife and kids goodbye and drove to work at the Napp Technologies chemical plant near his home in Lodi, New Jersey.
Arctic Treaty Nears 100 in Heated Climate
The Svalbard archipelago sits halfway between Norway and the North Pole with strategic access in the Barents Sea to vital sea lanes linking Russia, Western Europe and North America.
The Scientists Who Created America’s War Gases
SONORA, Calif. — In a back room of L. Philip Reiss’ condominium, the retired chemical engineer has covered the walls and filled his drawers with mementos of a long life in science. In one corner, he’s hung keepsakes from years volunteering with a
“History is Repeating Itself:” A Century of Chemical Warfare
IEPER, Belgium — The breeze blew in from the east as Simon Jones crossed a newly mowed field in Flanders. It was a brisk April morning. He followed a green ribbon of grass that stretched across the pasture and ended at a marble
Methane: Arctic Promise and Peril
Consigned to my bunk all night by gut-wrenching seas, I wistfully thought back to terra firma on mainland Norway a few days earlier. Before boarding the University of Tromsø’s research ship, R/V Helmer Hanssen,
Dying Inside
Teenage murderer James Morgan didn’t go the electric chair. But is his life worth living? In 1987, when I first interviewed James Morgan, he was on death row in Florida, sentenced to die in the electric chair for murdering a widow in a
On The Edge: Reindeer and Climate Change
Female reindeer stands protectively beside her calf. Text and photos by Randall Hyman TROMSØ, NORWAY – “When I got married two years ago, we invited 1400 people,” Berit Oskal-Somby told me as we stood in an icy coastal pasture in northern Norway surrounded
BOOM: North America’s Explosive Oil-by-Rail Problem
U.S. regulators knew they had to act fast. A train hauling 2 million gallons of crude oil from North Dakota had exploded in the Canadian town of Lac-Megantic, killing 47 people. Now they had to assure Americans a similar disaster wouldn’t happen south of the border, where the U.S. oil boom is sending
Forgiving Someone Who Kills Your Loved One Seems Impossible. Until It Isn’t
October 14, 2015 It was the perfect campsite, a place where the five kids in the Jaeger family could skip stones in a drifting river and wake up to views of the Montana Rockies. Marietta Jaeger and her husband, their three teenagers
Freedom, Finally, After a Life in Prison
WHEN she was 15 years old, Paula Cooper and three high school classmates in Gary, Ind., decided to cut school and steal some money to play games at a local arcade. They drank some cheap wine, smoked some pot and walked to the
Meltdown: Vanishing Polar Ice
“What you are looking at,” lamented marine biologist Haakon Hop of the Norwegian Polar Institute, “is the melting of the Arctic Ocean.”
Nearing 82 degrees north latitude aboard the research ship RV Lance in late July 2013, we were just 500 miles shy of the North Pole.
The Conservatism of Henry Kissinger
The End of European Peasantry
Doug Wilder’s Campaign
The Inner Workings of Dictatorship
The Hmong’s Blue Ridge Refuge
Child Poverty in Chicago
A Clash of Cultures
The Godfather of American Conservatism
A Road For Rhenigidale
Another America
Resettling the Hmong
The Farm Crisis
Barry Goldwater’s Curious Campaign
The Failure of Plenty
Argentina’s Dirty War
Life in the Black Belt
Saving Steel
Waking up on the Moon: The Hmong in America
Child Poverty in America: The Homeless Families
The Origins of Conservative Foreign Policy
The Modernization of Pepe Lopez
The Path of Black Political Power
City Without a Pulse
Tempting the Medicine Freaks
Solving the Problem of Meaning
The Kenilworth Estates
The Captured Documents
Rebuilding Bethlehem Steel
Inventing The SAT
Thinking About Thinking
High-Rise Hell
Dissent in the Foreign Service
The Demise of Big Steel
Taking The SAT
Eurisko, the Computer with a Mind of its Own
Inside the Manila Embassy
Schooled for Failure
Testing Teachers
The Lure of Artificial Intelligence
Ronald Reagan’s Foreign Service
Faces of the 80s
The Monkey Trial: Round Two
Bombed, Burned, and Boycotted
The Law Firm That Asbestos Built
A Nation In Transition…Farming
The Politics of Textbooks
Downwind Deals
Dark Side of the Chip
Thought Control
Separate But Unequal
Living With Risk
The Electronic Workplace
Faces of the 80s America, A Nation in Transition
The End of the Soviet Empire
Nothing Fails Like Success
Looking at the Old South Through Hazel Eyes
