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New Research Shows How the Meat Industry Infiltrated Universities to Obstruct Climate Policy

New research sheds light on the scope of the livestock industry’s influence over prominent agricultural research centers at two public universities.

As MVP Nears Completion, Some Residents Say Their Concerns For Safety and Pollution Are Being Ignored

Some residents along the route in Virginia worry their concerns about pollution and safety aren’t being heard.

Black History is More Than a Month

I wrote this photo essay in 2019 about the growing danger of the disappearance of Black history, of environmental justice, and of the wonderful wildlife in the rivers and estuaries of historic Eastern Shore, Maryland, because of climate change, sea-level rise, and the need for more Americans to take action.

What Will It Take for the EPA to Ban a Pesticide Linked to Parkinson’s?

Pesticides, Rachel Carson wrote in 1962, have “the power to kill every insect, the ‘good’ and the ‘bad,’ to still the song of birds and the leaping of fish in the streams…”

Fracking in Rural Pennsylvania

Once the “lumber capital of the world,” today Lycoming has fallen victim to the fracking epidemic because it positioned over a very large, very significant natural gas deposit, the Marcellus Shale.

Maryland or Massachusetts: Who’s Better at PFAS Regulation?

Last year while taking a class at MIT on water, health, and the environment, I produced a water vulnerability map of Massachusetts along with my group.