About me
Raised in Michigan.
Educated in Montana.
West Coast ex-pat.
I have worked as a journalist in Montana, Alaska, Washington, California and Kentucky.
I report for Inside Climate News, a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization. I cover the South as part of ICN's National Environmental Reporting Network.
My parents taught me to love the woods. We made maple syrup, hunted for morel mushrooms and game birds, fished in streams and lakes, hiked, and tended vegetable gardens. I thought I’d be a forest ranger, but printer’s ink got in my veins early.
Five times I was elected to the Society of Environmental Journalists board of directors, serving 13 years; two as vice president and two as president.
My report on railroad workers and brain damage was a top-ten finalist, Associated Press Managing Editors, in the public service category, in 2001. In 2004, I won the Thomas Stokes Award, the Renewable Natural Resources Foundation’s Excellence in Journalism Award, and two Best of Gannett awards for the series, “Toxic Air: Lingering Health Menace.”
I was blessed with a year on the University of Michigan campus as a mid-career Knight Wallace fellow in 1998-99. I am a graduate of the forestry and journalism programs at the University of Montana, where I also earned an M.S. in environmental studies.
In 2010, I co-chaired the SEJ annual conference hosted by my alma mater in Missoula, Mont. In 2013, and again in 2020, my work was honored by the Society of Environmental Journalists Annual Awards for Excellence in Environmental Journalism.
I live in the Clifton neighborhood of Louisville with my wife, Christine Bruggers.
Educated in Montana.
West Coast ex-pat.
I have worked as a journalist in Montana, Alaska, Washington, California and Kentucky.
I report for Inside Climate News, a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization. I cover the South as part of ICN's National Environmental Reporting Network.
My parents taught me to love the woods. We made maple syrup, hunted for morel mushrooms and game birds, fished in streams and lakes, hiked, and tended vegetable gardens. I thought I’d be a forest ranger, but printer’s ink got in my veins early.
Five times I was elected to the Society of Environmental Journalists board of directors, serving 13 years; two as vice president and two as president.
My report on railroad workers and brain damage was a top-ten finalist, Associated Press Managing Editors, in the public service category, in 2001. In 2004, I won the Thomas Stokes Award, the Renewable Natural Resources Foundation’s Excellence in Journalism Award, and two Best of Gannett awards for the series, “Toxic Air: Lingering Health Menace.”
I was blessed with a year on the University of Michigan campus as a mid-career Knight Wallace fellow in 1998-99. I am a graduate of the forestry and journalism programs at the University of Montana, where I also earned an M.S. in environmental studies.
In 2010, I co-chaired the SEJ annual conference hosted by my alma mater in Missoula, Mont. In 2013, and again in 2020, my work was honored by the Society of Environmental Journalists Annual Awards for Excellence in Environmental Journalism.
I live in the Clifton neighborhood of Louisville with my wife, Christine Bruggers.