Articles by Joe Smyth
Joe Smyth is a media officer with Greenpeace.
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Oil on Gulf Coast after Hurricane Isaac reveals risks of offshore drilling
Images of oil leftover from 2010's BP spill washing up on the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Isaac serve as a sad reminder that it’s impossible to clean up a major marine oil spill.
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What can our protected places teach us about saving the Arctic?
Protecting the Arctic is one of the great environmental challenges of our age. What lessons can we learn from earlier generations who won protection for the national parks we enjoy today?
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How Peabody gets dirt-cheap land and the rest of us get a gigaton of carbon pollution
In the Bureau of Land Management's corrupt coal-leasing program, taxpayer-owned land is leased at "auctions" where companies like Peabody are often the only bidder.
