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Keith Schneider

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Correspondent at The New York Times

Freelance Writer at Freelance

Senior Editor and Chief Correspondent at Circle of Blue

New York Times writer, also correspondent for The Guardian, The New Lede, Energy News Network, Mongabay, Circle of Blue. See his blog https://t.co/m7NzsVhcFy

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  • 1 week ago | circleofblue.org | Keith Schneider

    In January, executives at Constellation Energy startled the world with their plan to restart the closed and cold 840-megawatt Unit 1 reactor at Three Mile Island nuclear power station, site of one of the most dangerous meltdowns in atomic history. Not so long ago such news, like the specter of the ruined Unit 2 reactor core that remained after the 1979 accident in southern Pennsylvania, would have attracted more than surprise. It would have generated terror. No longer.

  • 1 week ago | circleofblue.org | Coal’s Decline |Keith Schneider |Laura Gersony |Eileen Wray- McCann

    Posted inWater & Energy In January, executives at Constellation Energy startled the world with their plan to restart the closed and cold 840-megawatt Unit 1 reactor at Three Mile Island nuclear power station, site of one of the most dangerous meltdowns in atomic history.

  • 1 week ago | circleofblue.org | Keith Schneider

    May 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court decision radically reshaped provisions of the Clean Water Act overseeing the nation’s wetlands. In a 5-4 decision the court decided with developers and farmers that the government no longer has the authority to prevent damage to inland, non-tidal wetlands unless they have an obvious “continuous surface connection” to water that leads to larger, easily navigated waterways.

  • 2 weeks ago | circleofblue.org | Keith Schneider

    Since it was passed by Congress and signed by President Nixon near the end of 1973 the Endangered Species Act served as the most powerful defense against natural resource exploitation that harmed vulnerable animals while also preserving wildlands that produced the cleanest lakes, streams, rivers, and groundwater in America.

  • 2 weeks ago | greatlakesnow.org | Keith Schneider

    May 19, 2025 Not since DDT was introduced to U.S. agriculture to kill insects after World War Two has a farm chemical been as important to American crop production, and come under more scientific, political, and legal scrutiny as the weedkiller Roundup, and its active ingredient, glyphosate.

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Keith Schneider @modeshift
22 Apr 25

The President is on a rampage to wreck America’s best values and principles. The environment is a feature of the purge. Circle of Blue https://t.co/VfXKIecFhK

Keith Schneider
Keith Schneider @modeshift
2 Apr 25

Is water the unmentioned resource in Trump’s campaign to control Greenland? There’s a lot of it there, ready to monetize for a fiercely thirsty planet. https://t.co/4Vda0c7mwq

Keith Schneider
Keith Schneider @modeshift
21 Mar 25

Dirtier communities, degraded air and water, more exposures to hazardous compounds will grievously injure the economic advantage America has gained from its cleaner environment. https://t.co/VwE0ZsVHsF...