One of the great environmentalist heroes of recent decades is George Atiyeh. Nephew of the last Republican governor of Oregon Vic Atiyeh, this former logger bucked the industry and made.
This is the grave of William Temple Hornaday. Born in 1854 in Avon, Indiana, Hornaday's family moved to Iowa when he was young and while there, he basically watched the.
The field of environmental history, especially that of the United States, has long had a problem: its practitioners are overwhelmingly white males. This has long caused a lot of consternation.
History is a book discipline, not a journal one. So it's rare that a big new journal begins. For the first time in a good 15 years, that has happened,.
Effluent flowing from an International Paper Company Mill into the Androscroggin River, Maine, 1973 David Zwick, architect of the Clean Water Act of 1972, has.
Above: Scott Pruitt's Dreams For better or for worse, perhaps the most important strategy for environmental organizations in the last 30 years has been to sue the government to force.
The environmental historian Chris Sellers explores this issue for Earth Day. In the 1950s, many Republicans were among the founding environmentalists in Congress. And of course, in the late 1960s.
My New Republic essay on how environmentalism needed to get in touch with working-class concerns came out on the day that protestors forced the Obama administration to reroute the pipeline.
