Keith Schneider

In a “toxic terrain,” journalism exposes Iowa’s farm pollution problem Real change occurs in America when civic pressures from outside the centers of influence force insiders to retreat. A compelling example of that that type of systemic change is now unf... See more

| Getting your | Real change occurs in America when civic pressures from outside the centers of influence force insiders to retreat. Arguably the most compelling example of systemic change in how a state could operate is now unfolding in Iowa. Severe wate... See more

| Getting your | KEY POINTS - The process began a year ago to delete a 25-year-old safeguard for wild forests. - Allowing new roads could open tens of millions of acres of forest – most of it untouched by industrial society – to development. - President T... See more

| Getting your | Just like his presidential predecessors – George Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden – Donald Trump has a thing for ethanol. But why? Inordinately expensive to taxpayers, monstrously polluting, and now linked to mounting cancer incidence in... See more

Keith Schneider, a former New York Times national correspondent, is senior editor for Circle of Blue, where this column was first published. He has reported on the contest for energy, food, and water in the era of climate change from six continents. Expec... See more