Editorial JEALOUS: How the Clean-Energy Win in Michigan Provides a Road Map for Other States If you live in Detroit or another part of Michigan where there’s a looming threat of bodily harm from fossil fuel pollution, it just... Garland JournalDecember 18, 2023
Editorial For Too Many Kids, Getting Outside Is Easier Said Than Done By Ben Jealous Last week, after a restful Thanksgiving, my family made a deliberate choice to #OptOutside on Friday. #OptOutside is a growing movement in... Garland JournalDecember 2, 2023
Editorial JEALOUS: Environmental Sacrifice Zones Can Be Beacons of Clean Energy Investment By Ben Jealous Lower Richland County, South Carolina, is a place with rich history. The region, which sits on wetlands and a floodplain forest fed... Garland JournalNovember 28, 2023
Editorial The Hidden Danger of Fossil Fuel Pollution By Ben Jealous The plot twist in the horror movies we love to watch at this time of year (including 1978’s “Halloween”) is used so... Garland JournalNovember 7, 2023
Editorial JEALOUS: The Clean Energy Transition Must Be a Just Transition By Ben Jealous When General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford – the “Big Three” American automakers – were close to extinction 15 years ago, their... Garland JournalOctober 6, 2023
Editorial JEALOUS: Protecting a Way of Life and the Planet By Ben Jealous The Sacred Place Where Life Begins. That’s what the Gwich’in people call the coastal plain of Alaska where they live. The Porcupine... Garland JournalSeptember 17, 2023
Editorial JEALOUS: A Deep-South Governor’s Race to Watch By Ben Jealous A year in which there are only three races for governor’s seats, all in the Deep South, wouldn’t normally create a lot... Garland JournalJuly 9, 2023
Editorial Big Chance to Cut Climate Pollution from Big Trucks By Ben Jealous The interstates built in the 1950s and 1960s killed the vitality of the communities where people of color and the poor lived,... Garland JournalJune 24, 2023
Editorial OUR VOICES: New Fire, Familiar Injustice By Ben Jealous (TriceEdneyWire.com) – A lightning strike and a small fire are all it took this weekend to remind residents in South Louisiana... Garland JournalJune 20, 2023
News JEALOUS: Under-Controlled Coal-Fired Power Plants Still Threaten Americans’ Health By Ben Jealous Tatum is an East Texas town of about 1,300 people, closer to Shreveport than Dallas. It’s on the north shore of Martin... Garland JournalJune 3, 2023