Control of Congress headlined a historic 2026 midterm election. Democrats took power in the House and Senate, tallying victory after victory to repaint the electoral map in broad swaths of blue. Those victories included triumphs in the Senate and governor races in Iowa where water pollution from industrial agriculture and the state’s rising cancer rate […]
Author Archives: Brett Walton
Brett writes about agriculture, energy, infrastructure, and the politics and economics of water in the United States. He also writes the Federal Water Tap, Circle of Blue’s weekly digest of U.S. government water news. He is the winner of two Society of Environmental Journalists reporting awards, one of the top honors in American environmental journalism: first place for explanatory reporting for a series on septic system pollution in the United States(2016) and third place for beat reporting in a small market (2014). He received the Sierra Club's Distinguished Service Award in 2018. Brett lives in Seattle, where he hikes the mountains and bakes pies. Contact Brett Walton
