Articles by Brentin Mock

Brentin Mock is a staff writer at CityLab and Grist's former justice editor. Follow him on Twitter at @brentinmock.

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Coal companies get hit where it counts for polluting Appalachian water supplies

The second largest coal producer in the nation just got dinged more than $200 million for habitually breaking clean water laws. That's gotta hurt.

Brentin Mock Technology
Attn. babies: Don’t be born poor and black in North Carolina

A new EPA study finds that poor black kids are more likely to arrive in this world underweight and undernourished, on top of being underprivileged.

Brentin Mock Cities
Dyin’ to live: Biggie Smalls and the silent killers in urban America

The Notorious B.I.G. was gunned down 17 years ago. But if he hadn’t taken a bullet, pollution and disease might have done the job instead.

Brentin Mock Culture
Henry David Thoreau would have given “12 Years a Slave” the Oscar for best picture, too

The 19th-century naturalist and political philosopher argued that slavery laid waste to the American landscape -- and not just in the South.

Brentin Mock Culture