We regularly highlight environmental topics that shape the lives of ordinary citizens in thousands of communities around the nation.

Past Issues

Following is a list of all past issues of It’s the Environment!

January 2016
2015 Year End Review

October 2015
Housatonic River Cleanup Inadequate

April 2015
Earth Day 2015

January 2015
Environmental Injustice Remains

December 2014
Remembering Theo Colborn

August 2014
Hurray for Parks, Forests, Seashores, and Natural Areas

August 2013
The James River
The New River

July 2013
26 July 2013 | The Spokane River
11 July 2013 | The Mighty Hudson

June 2013
The Yadkin River

May 2013
A Tale of Two Rivers

June 2012
21 June 2012 | Rio in 2012

April 2012
Essay on the Occasion of Earth Day 2012

February 2012
Twenty years of Dioxin

January 2012
12 January 2012 | At Last

December 2011
Reflections on 2011

November 2011
Smarter Not Harder

March 2010
Cleaning Up Dioxin

January 2010
19 January 2010 | A Broken Engagement
04 January 2010 | New Year’s Surprises

November 2009
20 November 2009 | Toxic Chemicals

September 2009
14 September 2009 | Good News – Bad News

July 2009
20 July 2009 | Summertime — Is The Living So Easy

May 2009
13 May 2009 | Environmental Causes of Disease

April 2009
24 April 2009 | Affects of Cause and Effect
2 April 2009 | What’s In The Water?

March 2009
20 March 2009 | An Agency in Need of Change!
11 March 2009 | Understanding Sustainability

February 2009
25 February 2009 | Does the Military Make a Good Neighbor
17 February 2009 | Dioxin – Deadly and Delayed
10 February 2009 | It’s the Environment! Inaugural Issue