James Bruggers
Reporter, Southeast
James Bruggers covers the U.S. Southeast, part of Inside Climate News’ National Environment Reporting Network. He previously covered energy and the environment for Louisville’s Courier Journal, where he worked as a correspondent for USA Today and was a member of the USA Today Network environment team. Before moving to Kentucky in 1999, Bruggers worked as a journalist in Montana, Alaska, Washington and California. Bruggers’ work has won numerous recognitions, including best beat reporting, Society of Environmental Journalists, and the National Press Foundation’s Thomas Stokes Award for energy reporting. He served on the board of directors of the SEJ for 13 years, including two years as president. He lives in Louisville with his wife, Christine Bruggers.
Youngstown City Council Unanimously Votes Against an ‘Untested and Dangerous’ Tire Pyrolysis Plant
By James Bruggers
Q&A: From Coal to Prisons in Eastern Kentucky, and the Struggle for a ‘Just Transition’
By James Bruggers
In Youngstown, a Downtown Tire Pyrolysis Plant Is Called a ‘Recipe for Disaster’
By James Bruggers
Experts Study Using Waste Plastic in Roads and More, but Find the Practice Isn’t Ready for Prime Time
By James Bruggers
Little Publicized but Treacherous, Methane From Coal Mines Upends the Lives of West Virginia Families
By James Bruggers
Inside Indiana’s ‘Advanced’ Plastics Recycling Plant: Dangerous Vapors, Oil Spills and Life-Threatening Fires
By James Bruggers
How Are Hurricanes Connected to Climate Change?
By Amy Green, Bob Berwyn, James Bruggers
EPA Spurns Trump-Era Effort to Drop Clean-Air Protections For Plastic Waste Recycling
By James Bruggers
On the Eve of Plastics Treaty Talks, a Youth Advocate From Ghana Speaks Out: ‘We Need Urgent Action’
By James Bruggers
Shell Agrees to Pay $10 Million After Permit Violations at its Giant New Plastics Plant in Pennsylvania
By James Bruggers
EPA Proposes to Expand its Regulations on Dumps of Toxic Waste From Burning Coal
By James Bruggers, Amy Green
UN Agency Provides Path to 80 Percent Reduction in Plastic Waste. Recycling Alone Won’t Cut It
By James Bruggers
Who Said Recycling Was Green? It Makes Microplastics By the Ton
By James Bruggers
Environmentalists Want the FTC Green Guides to Slam the Door on the ‘Chemical’ Recycling of Plastic Waste
By James Bruggers
Where There’s Plastic, There’s Fire. Indiana Blaze Highlights Concerns Over Expanding Plastic Recycling
By James Bruggers
Plastic Recycling Plant Could Send Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Into the Susquehanna River, Polluting a Vital Drinking Water Source
By James Bruggers
