I write about fossil fuels and renewable energy with a special interest in the energy transition in a warming world. I have been at The Times since 1990, and have been based in Washington, New York, Buenos Aires, Toronto and Houston. I have covered foreign and domestic affairs, including reporting trips around the United States, Canada, Latin America, North Africa and the Middle East. I previously worked at The Wall Street Journal and have had articles published in Foreign Affairs and GQ. I received an Overseas Press Club award for environmental reporting in Bolivia, and I was an Edward R. Murrow fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. I am the author of “Inside Central America: Its People, Politics and History.” I studied history at Vassar College and the University of Chicago and journalism at Columbia University. I was born in New York City. As a Times journalist, I share the values and adhere to the standards of integrity outlined in The Times’s Ethical Journalism handbook. I approach stories with an open mind, happy to be surprised. The best stories are the unexpected ones.
As drilling surged across Pennsylvania, economic optimism collided with mounting reports of spills, wastewater mismanagement, and regulatory strain. What was marketed as a clean-energy bridge began to reveal industrial consequences, leaving communities to reckon with the environmental costs of rapid extraction.
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In Hughesville, Pennsylvania, Raymond Gregoire initially ignored the offer to lease drilling rights on his land. Weeks later, he signed for $62,000 and organized 75 neighbors into a $3 million collective agreement. As the Marcellus land rush accelerated, stories like Gregoire’s captured both opportunity and unease—farmers weighing short-term financial windfalls against the permanent industrial transformation of rural landscapes.
Source: The New York Times (2008) Read More