Marcus Mitchell lay facedown on the snowy North Dakota prairie, blood pouring through the gaping wound on the left side of his face. It was just past midnight on 19 January 2017, and a Morton county sheriff’s deputy had just
“Treating protest as terrorism”: US plans crackdown on Keystone XL activists (Sept. 20, 2018)
My first-ever story for The Guardian, co-authored with Sam Levin, looks at recently released documents showing the government tarring pipeline opponents as extremists and details how police are organizing to launch an aggressive response to Keystone XL protests. Click here
Recent Arrests Under New Anti-Protest Law Spotlight Risks That Off-Duty Cops Pose to Pipeline Opponents (Aug. 22, 2018)
During the weekend prior to the publication of this story, four opponents of the Bayou Bridge pipeline and an independent journalist covering their activities were arrested and charged under Louisiana House Bill 727, which makes trespassing on “critical infrastructure” facilities
The U.S. and Canada Are Preparing for a New Standing Rock Over the Trans Mountain Tar Sands Pipeline (July 17, 2018)
Following a weeks-long investigation, Alleen Brown and I published a story in The Intercept on how US and Canadian authorities are girding for the mobilization against the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion in British Columbia by relying on heightened surveillance and
Standing Rock Activist Accused of Firing Gun Registered to FBI Informant Sentenced to Nearly Five Years in Prison (July 11, 2018)
Following an emotional hearing in Bismarck, North Dakota, this week, Oglala Lakota Sioux water protector Red Fawn Fallis was sentenced to 57 months in prison on charges stemming from her arrest while opposing the Dakota Access pipeline. Read my story
Brown Administration Supports Proposal That Would Block Increased Bay Area Tar Sands Refining
I co-authored this April 18th East Bay Express blog post with Jean Tepperman: The California Air Resources Board has announced support for a proposal that would block the increasing use of Alberta tar sands and other extra-polluting crude oil at the Bay
Brown Administration Weighing In on Proposal to Stop Bay Area Tar Sands Refining
On May 17, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District will consider a proposal that would make the San Francisco Bay Area the world’s first region to place limits on oil refineries’ overall greenhouse-gas and particulate-matter emissions. This new regulation,
Deluged: Logging That Imperils CA Rivers and Residents
During storms of even moderate intensity, the Elk River in Humboldt County rises above its banks and dumps torrents of mud and sand across neighboring properties and has ruined domestic water supplies, inundated vehicles, buried farmland and spilled into homes. Why does
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