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James Bruggers

Louisville
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Covers:  energy, water quality, environmental health, air quality, consumer issues, environmental agencies, wildife, extreme weather, nature, environmental science, coal, coal ash, climate change, pollution
Doesn't Cover: products, consumer
I covered the Southeast for Inside Climate News; 13-year board member, past pres. of @sejorg; U of MI Knight Wallace Fellows alum. Courier-Journal alum

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Raised in Michigan. Educated in Montana. Worked as a journalist in Montana, Alaska, Washington, California and Kentucky. I cover environmental topics for The (Louisville) Courier-Journal and courier-journal.com, Kentucky’s largest news organization. I’m something of a rare bird, in that I know off no other newspaper reporter who covers the environment full time in Kentucky. My parents taught to me to love the woods. We made maple syrup, hunted for morel mushrooms and game birds, fished in strea…

James Bruggers’s Journalist Portfolio

The Courier-Journal Special: Climate Change Section

The Courier-Journal Special: Climate Change Section

The Courier-Journal is publish stories in print and online that examine the rising risks associated with glob…

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Beargrass Creek: Troubled streams of neglect, abuse

Beargrass Creek: Troubled streams of neglect, abuse

Special report examining the condition of the three forks of Beargrass Creek, which drain much of Louisville,…

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Paducah nuclear fuel plant cleanup.

Paducah nuclear fuel plant cleanup.

The most expensive and largest environmental cleanup in Kentucky, at an aging nuclear fuel factory, will cost…

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Unwanted: Invading species

Unwanted: Invading species

Invading plants and animals are remaking Kentucky and Indiana.

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Dealings by MSD board members "disturbing."

Dealings by MSD board members "disturbing."

Ethics experts, others, question practice of MSD board members doing business with the agency they served.

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As an Ohio plastic waste plant violates pollution rules, its owner makes case for an Arizona location

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By James Bruggers
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Inside Climate News A water tower with the name 'Eloy' in red font sits on Main Street in Eloy, Arizona. This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Belching smoke from a new plastic waste processing plant in central Ohio has stirred opposition to an even larger “chemical recycling” factory planned for Arizona by the same company.
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As an Ohio plastic waste plant violates pollution rules, its owner makes case for an Arizona location

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By James Bruggers
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Mystery of NJ neighborhood with ‘crazy high percentage’ of people with cancer — including 28 on one street When one former Keyport, NJ, resident started keeping tabs of all the cancer diagnoses on and around his childhood street, the numbers were “freaking …
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As a Plastic Waste Plant Violates Pollution Rules, Its Owner Makes the Case for a Second Location

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By James Bruggers
| Inside Climate News Verified
Belching smoke from a new plastic waste processing plant in central Ohio has stirred opposition to an even larger “chemical recycling” factory planned for Arizona by the same company. The Freepoint Eco-Systems plant near Hebron, Ohio, fired up its processing kilns for the first time in 2024. Since then, it’s faced multiple citizen complaints about sooty emissions, from black clouds of smoke to flames.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Co-edited a natural resources magazine.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes.

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