ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISM
The idea of environmental journalism as a reporting beat came into its own with the 1979 disaster at the Three Mile Island Nuclear (TMI) Plant in Pennsylvania. Corrigan got a piece of that story with a 6-part series on the TMI rail program to transport the highly radioactive rubble from TMI to the INEL storage facilities in Idaho. The series was funded by a Gannett Award Grant and won several investigative reporting awards. Corrigan continues to write on the nature and the environment with this recently published book, “Show Me... Natural Wonders.” A sampling of some of his environmental writing is presented here, including a 2007 story which won a news writing award and which was posted on CNN, about the overflow of raw sewage and contaminants into St. Louis area creeks and streams. A sampling of some of his work in the field of environmental journalism is presented below.