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Guardian Environmental Network
By Ted Genoways
A Novel Approach
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May 22, 2013: What's the best way to tell the truth about the connection between land, people, and politics? It might be fiction.
TransCanada Dodges Questions on Its Controversial Land Agent/Preacher [UPDATED]
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April 18, 2013: "We’ll deal with you later," a TransCanada spokesman tells OnEarth.
TransCanada's Not Paying This Preacher to Save Souls
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April 15, 2013: He preached sermons in a Nebraska church and performed weddings and funerals, but this Baptist minister is also a professional land agent helping pave the way for the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
The Woman Who Loves Orcas
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March 18, 2013: Scientist, poet, and cancer survivor Eva Saulitis says that orcas saved her life. If only she could return the favor.

Re "The Woman Who Loves Orcas" (March 17, 2013): Thanks to everyone for the kind words about this piece. It was an amazing and challenging story to report and write. I'm eternally grateful to Eva for her willingness to be so open and emotionally honest with me. The work... Read More >
Evolving Strategy
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March 6, 2013: As anti-science forces challenge the teaching of climate change in the public schools, a scientist fights back.
Paradigm Lost
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January 3, 2013: A veteran of the environmental struggle urges Americans to draw a new social map -- by connecting the dots.
Why Big Ag Loves the Drought
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December 10, 2012: Even as their crops withered and died, big Midwestern farming operations harvested record profits this year. How can that be? A Nebraska native investigates.
Keystone Conflict: Nebraska Firm Reviewing Tar Sands Project Has Ties to Pipeline Builder
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December 7, 2012: Nebraska officials hired a company to review Keystone XL that has done business with TransCanada and touts itself as helping energy companies overcome government regulation to do “what they do best -- delivering oil.”
Truth to Power
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September 13, 2012: If it isn't going in your backyard, whose backyard does it go in? A titan of environmental justice won't stop asking.
Whistleblower Sues Energy Company After Oil Spill Cover-Up
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July 21, 2012: John Bolenbaugh, the oil worker who claims he was fired for blowing the whistle on a top-down cover-up that followed the 2010 spill of more than a million gallons of tar sands crude in Michigan, has made good on his vow to... read more >
'Just Call It a False Alarm': Oil Spill Probe Reveals Massive Safety Failures
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July 10, 2012: Investigators blame Enbridge’s 'culture of deviance' for the worst oil spill in Midwestern history but fail to address the role of tar sands crude in escalating the danger and toxic aftermathThe rupture of an underground... read more >
Pipe Dreams: From Trans-Alaska to Keystone XL, A Doomed Love Affair
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June 20, 2012: Thirty-five years ago today, a national recession and high fuel prices led to the opening of the massive, controversial Trans-Alaska Pipeline System -- and a host of problems and pollution that came with it. Sound familiar?“... read more >
Ted Genoways
Ted Genoways is OnEarth's editor-at-large and a six-time National Magazine Award winner as former editor-in-chief of the Virginia Quarterly Review. The recipient of a 2010 Guggenheim fellowship, he has contributed to magazines ranging from Outside to Mother Jones, and his work... More
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