Lisa Margonelli

A close look at the oil industry highlights issues of politics, environment and even cultural violence. Lisa Margonelli talks about her new book Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline.

All the right interest groups love it, but how does the policy benefit American consumers?

Jeff Grant works two jobs but can barely pay his truck’s gas bills—and it’s begun to affect how he lives his life

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What problem are releases from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve trying to solve?

The liquid enables rodents to communicate with one another. It’s also at the core of our asthma epidemic

A healthy, inexpensive, environmentally friendly solution for housing millions of retiring baby boomers is staring us in the face. We just know it by a dirty name.

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Termites working n tandem with technology could help build resistance to climate change. But for Lisa Margonelli, this leads to bigger questions about the nature of humanity

In trying to rid our homes of insects, fungi and the like, we’re forcing the species around us to evolve ever faster—often at our own expense. Lisa Margonelli reviews “Never Home Alone” by Rob Dunn.