Michael Biesecker

LATEST ARTICLES BY Michael Biesecker

• Environment

  

  Swollen NC rivers swamp dumps, raising water pollution fears

  September 17, 2018 By Michael Biesecker

  As rain from Florence continued to lash the Carolinas, the region’s swollen rivers were beginning to swamp coal ash dumps and low-lying hog farms Sunday, raising pollution concerns.

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• Environment

  

  Coal executive’s “action plan” finds success under Trump

  January 11, 2018 By Michael Biesecker

  In the early days of the Trump administration, Robert “Bob” Murray, the head of one of America’s largest coal companies, sent a four-page “action plan” to the White House calling for rollbacks of Obama-era environmental and...

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• News

  

  Humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico, Trump’s tweets focus on Puerto Rico’s debt

  September 26, 2017 By Michael Biesecker And Andrew Taylor

  Five days after the Category 4 storm slammed into Puerto Rico, many of the more than 3.4 million U.S. citizens in the territory were still without adequate food, water and fuel. Flights off the island were...

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