New York Times writer, also correspondent for The Guardian, The New Lede, Energy News Network, Mongabay, Circle of Blue. See his blog ModeShift.org
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Republican candidate for governor campaigned against farm pollution and cancer and beat the Trump-backed MAGA man.
New post by Keith Schneider @modeshift: Farming’s mammoth water pollution and its consequences for public health are on the ballot in Iowa, where the primary election is happening today.
#ag #water #environment #cancer
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May 19
The closure of the Strait accomplished what decades of climate and clean energy advocacy could not. It’s shifting big investments away from fossil-based energy and poured tens of billions of dollars into cleaner energy and transportation - except in U.S. circleofblue.org/2026/opinio…
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Apr 27
Utah wants to be a center of commercial nuclear manufacturing and power generation. Is it practical or impossible. Big goal that’s hard to reach. sltrib.com/news/2026/04/27/u…
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Apr 15
War gaming desal plants in the Middle East. Dropping bombs on a region’s freshwater supply is a war crime. Who threatened it first. Our maniac president. He’s an American disaster. circleofblue.org/2026/supply…
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The right to gather and protest in public is under attack in states. A new form of corporate vigilantism. Not clubs and guns. Rather, state legislation. It’s insidious and dangerous. circleofblue.org/2026/opinio…
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Trump’s unfathomable orders to keep old coal plants in operation are disrupting electricity markets and increasing the cost of electricity for customers. They are also producing millions of tons of toxic air and water pollution that would have been halted. circleofblue.org/2026/water-…
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Mar 25
One of the administration’s latest environmental outrages: its attack on the compelling progress the country has been making on reducing contamination from mercury, one of the primary chemical pollutants of concern in the 1970s.
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Mar 16
Paul Ehrlich, the population scientist whose prediction of a “population bomb” evolved into a global population drawback, died yesterday. The NYT obituary I prepared: nytimes.com/2026/03/15/books…
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Mar 11
Bayer mounted a nationwide campaign in last 2 years to protect the $2.8 billion market for Roundup. Its case is now heard in the Oval Office, Congress, the EPA, the U.S. Solicitor General’s office, the U.S. Supreme Court, the Legislatures of 11 states. circleofblue.org/2026/agricu…
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Here’s a surprise. MAGA change of strategy on renewable energy. washingtonpost.com/business/…
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Feb 25
The Senate is poised to vote on a resolution intended to clear a new pathway to eventually open a long-disputed copper mine close to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. There’s a lot riding on the vote, and not just for northern Minnesota. circleofblue.org/2026/water-…
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Feb 19
Trump displays every intent to do as much damage as he can to America’s world-leading program of natural resource protection. But clear signals of countermeasures and opposition are in view, particularly in the Great Lakes region. circleofblue.org/2026/opinio…
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SMR development is motivated by converging , unconfirmed projections prompting billions in investment. By far the most important: the cost of building nuclear plants will fall, and demand for electricity will significantly increase. circleofblue.org/2026/water-…
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On January 15 author and activist Chris Jones launched a longshot political campaign as a Democrat to serve as Iowa’s 18th agriculture secretary. His message: hold agriculture accountable for its colossal contamination.
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Michigan in 2025 issued nationally significant requirements big livestock and poultry producers to more safely manage the brown tide of manure they spread each year on farm fields. They are so encouraging to movement to stem farm pollution. circleofblue.org/2026/great-…
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America attacked Venezuela. Maduro will be prosecuted for drugs and corruption. Recall US attacked Panama in 1989 to remove Noriega on similar charges. U.S. lost 24 soldiers then. Panama casualties: 500 soldiers and civilians. Maduro operation yielded no U.S. dead, Trump said.
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No one I know considers their lives near the forests and clean waters of the upper Great Lakes as anything other than a blessing. All of what we’ve accomplished in the Great Lakes is in mortal danger from a president and compliant allies in Congress. circleofblue.org/2025/opinio…
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Court rulings are poised to arrive next year on operation of Line 5 oil pipeline that crosses the Great Lakes. They come amid a new era of energy demand and supply unfolding in Great Lakes states. circleofblue.org/2025/great-…
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