Greg Harman
Greg Harman is Editor of the Current
From radwaste salt domes under New Mexico’s deserts to the ravaged oil patch of West Texas and the lingering fallout of Agent Orange exposure in Mississippi, Harman has been writing about the state of our environment since his high-school fanzine days. After several years studying the watering holes and truck stops between Texas and Wyoming, Harman finagled an English degree out of Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth and began accepting honest pay for wedding words on flickering screens … a long way from his Kaczynskiesque Greyhound-station scribbling days. Since joining the Current as a staff writer in 2007 (after stints at weekly and daily papers in Houston, Las Vegas, Biloxi, Odessa, Pecos, and Alpine), he has been named a print journalist of the year by the Houston Press Club for his series on the border wall (“Muro del Odio”); his work on CPS Energy — particularly worker safety issues — earned him a national public service award from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies; and his three-part series on the nuclear fuel chain that ran between 2009 and 2010, starting with “Nukes Mean Mines,” was selected among the best environmental reporting of the year in 2010 by the Natural Resources Defense Council’s OnEarth magazine. He was named editor of the Current in January of 2011, but promises to quit the news-writing business just as soon as victimization and despair cease to be a natural outflow of economic progress. He wants you to be happy and not drive so blinkin’ fast