Articles by Heather Smith
Heather Smith (on Twitter, @strangerworks) is interested in the various ways that humans try to save the environment: past, present, and future.
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Chevron spent $72 per voter to defeat these green candidates — and failed
A refinery town's activist and green governing coalition prevails in the face of an oil company's millions.
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In Richmond, Calif., it’s Chevron’s $3 million vs. a green slate
A refinery town's reputation as an environmental-justice pioneer is in peril, thanks to a pile of oil money and a torrent of negative ads.
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Rotten odors rouse citizen sleuths in Pennsylvania gas patch
Since government won't monitor whether the oil-and-gas boom is wrecking air quality, volunteers have stepped in. Now their work is getting peer-reviewed and published.
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A Keystone XL activist gets his day in court
The good news is Alec Johnson got off with a small fine. The bad news is he didn't get to say a peep about why he performed his act of civil disobedience.
