Entries by Keith Schneider

Mindful of Water Scarcity, Cost, and Pollution, Tamil Nadu Turns to Sun and Wind Power

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Keith SchneiderCircle of Blue’s senior editor and chief correspondent based in Traverse City, Michigan. He has reported on the contest for energy, food, and water in the era of climate change from six continents. Contact Keith Schneider http:/Circleofblue.org/about/staff/Keith

The Right to Life and Water: Drought and Turmoil for Coke and Pepsi in Tamil Nadu

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Keith SchneiderCircle of Blue’s senior editor and chief correspondent based in Traverse City, Michigan. He has reported on the contest for energy, food, and water in the era of climate change from six continents. Contact Keith Schneider http:/Circleofblue.org/about/staff/Keith

In City Prone to Drought, Chennai’s Water Packagers Rush In

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Keith SchneiderCircle of Blue’s senior editor and chief correspondent based in Traverse City, Michigan. He has reported on the contest for energy, food, and water in the era of climate change from six continents. Contact Keith Schneider http:/Circleofblue.org/about/staff/Keith

Water and Climate Safety, Finance Security, Drive Keystone XL Conflict

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Nebraska is again a battleground over tar sands oil pipeline. By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue On January 24, President Donald Trump made good on a “Day One” campaign pledge to assist America’s oil producers. Trump signed one executive order that commanded the Army Corps of Engineers to issue an easement for the Dakota Access […]

Gina Lopez, Philippine Environment Secretary, Pursues Watershed Protection

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Clear goals to enforce pollution laws jeopardize the new secretary’s job.

Choke Point: Tamil Nadu

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New reporting project describes how drought, storms, and floods are forcing big Indian state to contend with severe water stress. By Keith Schneider Circle of Blue TUTICORIN, INDIA — Among the 75 government ministries that manage and regulate this bewitching and impassioned nation, there is no Ministry of the Future. There should be. Narendra Modi, […]

Perspective: The Age of Disruption Powers a Global Awakening

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By Keith Schneider CHENNAI, INDIA — The last time I can recall a civic awakening as big, gallant, and well-intentioned as the mammoth demonstrations that occurred here in the capital of Tamil Nadu, and in American cities last weekend, I’d just turned 14 years old. On April 22, 1970 the United States celebrated the first […]

World Bank Loan to India Leads to Water-Damaging Projects

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Report finds that a generation after withdrawing big loan for hydro project the World Bank is back with indirect financing. By Keith Schneider Circle of Blue In the pantheon of public campaigns to block big hydropower projects around the world, the fight to stop the Sardar Sarovar dam in India belongs in the hall of […]

Water Safety Activism in Rural Red States Impedes Fossil Energy Development

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Opposition to a big pipeline in Kentucky is a case in point. By Keith Schneider Circle of Blue BEREA, KY — President-elect Donald J. Trump’s aggressive and unorthodox election campaign included a pledge to dismantle impediments to the speedy development of America’s reserves of fossil fuels. In pursuit of that goal, Trump this week named […]