Selected Clips

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What Happens When Disaster Recovery Becomes a Luxury Good? (Grist)

What Your Cheap Clothes Cost the Planet with Sachi Kitajima Mulkey (The Nation x Grist)

The Scramble for the Seafloor (The New York Review of Books)

After Hurricane Melissa, Jamaica’s climate resilience plan faces its biggest test yet (Grist)

As data centers upend electric grids, the largest operator in the US is facing down a revolt from state officials (Grist)

Can offshore wind survive the Trump administration? (Grist)

Why Flash Flood Warnings Will Continue to Go Unheeded (Grist)

What’s Likely to Survive from Biden’s Climate Law? The Controversial Stuff. (Grist)

Power Struggle (Philadelphia Magazine)

Full Metal Racket (The New Republic)

Smoke Alarm (Grid Magazine)

Will Hydrogen Hubs Be a Clean Energy Boom or a Boondoggle? (Yale360)

War Machine Learning (The Baffler)

The Healy-Rae’s Campaign Songs (The Drift)

Everything Dies (The Baffler)

Deep Sea Rush (The Baffler)

Louisiana Ballot Measure Could Slash Oil and Gas Property Taxes (Drilled News)

Atlantic City Is Really Going Down This Time (Longreads)

Climate Messaging: A Case for Negativity (Longreads)

The State of the Bookstore Union (Longreads)

Ninety-Eight Years of Fallen Women (The Awl)

The Bodies Below the Bar (The Awl)

Guest Speaking Appearances

WBUR’s Here and Now, 2025—On private companies stepping into the disaster economy

WBUR’s Here and Now, 2025—On fast fashion

WBUR’s Here and Now, 2025—On data centers’ power problems

WEKU’s Eastern Standard, 2025—On tapping natural hydrogen in the Midwest.

WBUR’s Here and Now, 2025—On the race to find natural hydrogen

WBUR’S Here and Now, 2025—On declining groundwater