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Tom Arrandale

Tom Arrandale

Correspondent

Tom Arrandale is a GOVERNING correspondent. He writes the Sustainability newsletter, which features the latest news on the people, policies and programs that are helping to create a new generation of sustainable, smart, more livable communities. Tom Arrandale is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Missouri School of Journalism. A native of upstate New York, he lived in Albuquerque, N.M., for 25 years and is now based in Livingston, Mont. He reports on environmental issues, including whether expanding cities and declining rural communities can prosper continuously while adapting to the natural capacity of their air, water and landscapes.

As bears, cougars and other predatory animals range closer to cities, wildlife agencies are rethinking how best to keep both people and animals safe.
The more water people save, the more money utilities lose. They're looking far afield for a solution.
The Colorado city's citizens are going along with a "carbon tax" to control greenhouse gases that affect the climate. No doubt the new U.S....
It's tough to imagine that steamy Florida may be running out of water. Yet state and local water managers this spring barred homeowners from sprinkling...
Most dry summer months, somewhere in the country, a wildfire flares into a fearsome sight that fills the sky with harrowing flames and forbidding columns...
Back in the summer of 1966, a rock group named the The Standells enjoyed their only major hit, "Dirty Water." The words were inspired by Massachusetts'...
Late this month, 10 Northeastern states will conclude an auction like no other in American history. What's up for grabs is not art or property. It's...
Clearly, residents of San Diego would rather not drink their own wastewater. The first time the idea of it came up, about a decade ago,...