If you’ve read the preceding blog posts in this series, thank you for sifting through my life as I try to sift through these issues. Here is...

I grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah, which is surrounded by mountains. In my time there I occasionally drove south, out of the valley, into th...

Leo Tolstoy’s novel  Anna Karenina  opens with “All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” This beautifu...

Up until mid-twentieth century, miners would carry bright yellow canaries down into coal-blackened tunnels to carve out a meager living from...

As it currently stands within the 1971 Mining Act of South Australia , farmers have no right to veto mining activities over their land. When...

Last week, a Los Angeles Times story detailed how rural California residents often consume contaminated drinking water, with 400 (or about ...

It's an old lesson we never seem to learn . . . You can't save the environment by destroying it. - Kit Ausschnitt, current Vermont ...

On February 3, 2023, a Norfolk Southern train carrying a toxic chemical derailed in a small Ohio town of 4,718 called East Palestine. The c...

American political polarization on the issue of climate change, specifically the predominant notion that environmental protection is a left...

A recent op-ed in The Hill  argues that public policy should reflect the fact that rural Americans are an integral part of the nation’s clea...