Karen Savage is an investigative journalist who has reported on climate change-related litigation, environmental justice, policing and other social justice issues. In addition to DeSmog, her work has appeared in Drilled News, Climate Docket, Undark Magazine, In These Times, Project Earth, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, City Limits, and other outlets. Karen is an alum of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, where she won the Sidney Hillman Award for Social Justice Reporting. You can find her on Twitter at @mathsavage.
An investigative journalist shares her perspective after being arrested twice while reporting on resistance to the Bayou Bridge pipeline construction.
While pipeline protesters risk harsh new penalties enacted in various states, security companies hired to police fossil fuel projects are operating with little oversight.
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