Erin Brockovich, Robin Greenwald, Huffington Post. January 13, 2009. What does the future hold for the public's health and safety? Overnight, a whole community's lifestyle is gone.
Josh Dorner, Sierra Club AlterNet: Water. January 13, 2009. And what did the famously loquacious industry mouthpiece have to say about the sludge spill? Not a single word.
Bruce Nilles, Sierra Club AlterNet: Water. January 6, 2009. It was a tragedy of epic proportions, and this massive spill reminds us that coal is not clean, and coal is not cheap.
Antrim Caskey, AlterNet. January 5, 2009. With the breaking of a coal waste dam in Tennessee, environmental and human health is threatened by millions of pounds of toxic chemicals.
Matthew McDermott, TreeHugger. December 25, 2008. Approximately 500 million gallons of coal ash sludge has broken through a holding pond at a coal-fired plant.
Editorial Staff, Boston Globe. August 1, 2008. An undocumented pregnant woman faces the horror and neglect of the U.S. justice system ... giving birth only to have her child stripped from her.
David Neiwert, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. July 28, 2008. James David Adkisson attacked a church, killing two people and wounding seven more, all because of it's liberal views.
Pam Spaulding, Pam's House Blend AlterNet: Election 2008. February 15, 2008. Memphis Rep. Steve Cohen is under attack from homobigoted ministers hoping to pits Jews against African-Americans.
Patrik Jonsson, Christian Science Monitor. February 15, 2008. Drought-stricken Georgia is eyeing a stretch of the Tennessee River that has long been part of a border feud.
Julie Winokur, AlterNet. May 29, 2007. Collateral Damage: Bad Medicine in Tennessee, a new film by Julie Winokur, explores the single largest Medicaid cuts in history -- a failed "reform" attempt that left 170,000 people without care almost overnight.