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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Tied to the rusty White House fence: Two Keystone protesters’ arrest odyssey

Sunday's civil disobedience action put the emphasis on "civil," but the arrested students intend to keep raising their voices.

Heather Smith Climate & Energy
Could the Keystone pipeline give you cancer?

Sen. Barbara Boxer is warning that tar-sands oil poses significant health risks. She's calling on the State Department to do a new study on the issue.

Heather Smith Technology
EPA’s new pesticide rules: Will they make a difference?

Farmworker training and rules for underage labor are valuable, but it's going to take more to change our chemical-laced system.

Heather Smith Technology
In new Pacific trade talks leak, “climate” becomes the unmentionable

The latest draft to emerge from trade negotiations waters down a diluted environmental section even further.

Heather Smith Technology