 Investigative
journalist Rebecca Clarren writes often about both immigrant labor
and the intersection of the environment and public health. A contributing
writer to High Country News, she freelances
for other national magazines such as Mother Jones,
The Nation, Salon.com
and Fortune. Her work is frequently
supported by the Fund
for Investigative Journalism. A recipient of numerous fellowships
and awards, she has most recently won the 2009
Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship and the 2010
Sidney Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism. She is working
on a book about a natural gas blow out in rural Colorado.
Selected Featured Stories From the Archives
Paradise Lost, Ms Magazine
Guest Workers from Asian countires work for the low wage amind often
grim conditions in a US territory in the Pacific, making clothes
that say Made in the USA
www.msmagazine.com/spring2006/paradise_full.asp
Inside the Secretive plan to gut the Endagered Species
Act, Salon.com
A whistleblower leaked Clarren a federal document outlining some
troubling news for the environment
www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/03/27/endangered_species/
Shuck and Jive, Utne Reader
The politics behind the ethanol boom
www.hcn.org/issues/208/10647
Pesticide Drift, Orion
Immigrants in California's Central Valley are sick of breathing
poisoned air
www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/3045
Behind the Pillow Angel, Salon.com
The story behind this year's biggest bio-ethics case
www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/02/09/pillow_angel
Fields of Poison, The Nation
How farmworkers say pesticides poison them at work
www.thenation.com/doc/20031229/clarren
Land of Milk and Money, Salon.com
The real story behind the Horizon Milk happy cow
dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/04/13/milk/
No Refuge in the Klamath Basin, High Country News
The winner of an honorable mention for the 2001
John B. Oakes award for excellence in environment journalism.
www.hcn.org/issues/208/10647
Save the Holes, Los Angeles Times Magazine
Three tough Alaskan cavers dig deep to protect ancient caves
articles.latimes.com/2004/aug/08/magazine/tm-caves32
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