Scott Edwards

Just last week, Food and Water Watch broke a story about extremely close ties between Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley and the poultry company Perdue. O'Malley's closeness to Perdue was evidenced in 70 pages of emails acquired under a state freedom of information request; they are largely...

The fracking lobby just moved into new territory. Back in 2003, the columnist David Brooks wrote an article for The Atlantic Monthly in which he described himself as a "recovering secularist." Certainly, with his latest piece on the issue of shale gas extraction [Shale Gas Revolution,...

-cide: Suffix typically used to denote the killing of something. There's a good chance that most of us don't want something that ends in "-cide" added to our drinking water, unless, it seems, you're a member of the House of Representatives. Last month, the House voted 292 to 130 to...

It may be hard to believe, but April 20, 2011, marks one year since BP began decimating the Gulf of Mexico with its negligent dumping of oil and dispersant into our waterways and communities. In the coming days you'll find the government, media and even BP revisiting the Gulf marking...

There's a storm brewing in Kentucky among coal companies and state government. A coalition of environmental and citizen groups has been calling out some of the nation's biggest coal companies for egregious violations of the Clean Water Act -- violations numbering in the tens of thousands over just a few...

You've all heard that a picture's worth a thousand words. Turns out, if a Republican state senator in Florida gets his way, a picture of a farm might also be worth 30 years in prison. Senator Jim Norman (R-Tampa) recently introduced SB 1246 in the state Senate which...

Who hasn't seen those "Making It Right" ads that BP is using to flood the media like so much run-away oil saturating the Gulf? Over the past nine months, BP has conducted a full-throttle charm offensive, taking out full-page ads in The New York Times, sponsoring small-town festivals all along...

Republicans sure do love their wars, don't they? Seems like they just can't live without pointing the finger of blame at anyone but themselves for what ails us, whether it be compromised national security, a languishing economy or crumbling educational system. There's nothing like a convenient enemy to keep the...

Here's what I don't get about the "debate" over manmade climate change (I put debate in quotes because I'm using it in the absolute loosest terms -- let's face it, it's about as much of a scientific debate as evolution vs. creationism.). On one side are the scientific experts: 98...

You almost have to admire Perdue. Almost.

Nearly forty years ago, after witnessing the downfall of water quality across the nation, the United States passed a sweeping set of comprehensive environmental laws designed to bring some degree of corporate responsibility to industrial America's polluters. Industries would, for the first time,...

The media has been filled with recent accounts of the many misdeeds of the coal mining industry. From the uncontrolled devastation of mountaintop mining to the open disregard for mine worker safety, from the poisoning of our air and waterways to the destruction of our irreplaceable landscapes, this industry has...