Sue Sturgis
Sue Sturgis is the Director and regular contributor to the Institute for Southern Study's online magazine, Facing South, with a focus on energy and environmental issues. Sue is the author or co-author of five Institute reports, including Faith in the Gulf (Aug/Sept 2008), Hurricane Katrina and the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement (January 2008) and Blueprint for Gulf Renewal (Aug/Sept 2007). Sue holds a Masters in Journalism from New York University.
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Views Saturday, December 07, 2019 Big Energy Front Group Launches Push for Troubled Atlantic Coast Pipeline A lobbying group formed by oil and gas industry insiders to push for increased fossil fuel production has turned its focus from promoting offshore drilling in the Atlantic to championing Dominion Energy's and Duke Energy's controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP). It's doing so under the guise... Read more |
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Views Saturday, July 20, 2019 Institute Index: $15 Wage Bill in Hands of Senator Opposed to Minimum Wage Date on which the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Raise the Wage Act, which would boost the federal hourly minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 by 2025, phase out the $2.13 hourly minimum for tipped workers, and end subminimum wages for teens and workers with disabilities: 7/18/2019 Month in... Read more |
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Views Sunday, May 26, 2019 The Secret Money Behind the Push to Ban Abortion Rank of Brett Kavanaugh's 2018 appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court among the reasons there's a new push to ban abortion in state legislatures across the South and elsewhere: 1 In the fiscal year before it spearheaded Kavanaugh's confirmation, amount the Judicial Crisis Network (JCN) — a secret-... Read more |
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Views Sunday, April 14, 2019 Who Will Pay to Clean Up Duke Energy's Coal Ash Pits? Date on which the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ), citing science, ordered Duke Energy to fully excavate its remaining coal ash pits and move the toxic waste into lined landfills: 4/1/2019 Number of remaining coal ash pits Duke Energy must excavate under the order: 6... Read more |
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Views Saturday, January 19, 2019 Institute Index: The Racial Injustice of the Government Shutdown Rank of the ongoing partial federal government shutdown ordered by President Trump — an effort to get congressional funding for an unpopular $5.7 billion wall along the Mexican border — among the longest in U.S. history: 1 Total number of federal workers who are either furloughed or working without... Read more |
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Views Saturday, December 01, 2018 The Corporations That Helped a Confederate Apologist Hold a Senate Seat Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi won a special runoff election this week to the U.S. Senate seat she was appointed to fill earlier this year after Thad Cochran resigned for health reasons. She defeated Democratic challenger Mike Espy, former congressman and U.S. agriculture secretary... Read more |
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Views Sunday, November 04, 2018 The 2018 Ballot Measures That Could Help Build a More Just South Voters in most states across the South will be weighing in on statewide ballot measures in this year's general election on a range of issues from voting rights to criminal justice. While some of the measures are being actively opposed by progressive groups — like the proposals to further restrict... Read more |
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Views Monday, August 27, 2018 The Unequal Health Impacts of Trump's Coal Plant Rule Date on which the Trump administration, as part of its efforts to boost the U.S. coal industry, proposed new regulations for coal-fired power plants that would roll back stricter pollution rules adopted by the Obama administration: 8/21/2018 Number of health and medical groups that issued a joint... Read more |
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Views Saturday, February 17, 2018 How Citizens United Continues to Transform Money in Politics As of last month, number of years since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in Citizens United v. FEC , which lifted limits on money in politics and led to an explosion in the number of outside spending groups that are supposed to operate independently of campaigns and parties and aren't... Read more |
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Views Saturday, January 06, 2018 Trump's Offshore Drilling Plan Flouts Law by Ignoring Governors' Wishes The Trump administration unveiled its draft five-year plan for offshore drilling this week to replace the Obama administration plan that went into effect last year. Trump is proposing to open to oil and gas development vast untouched areas of coastal waters including the Atlantic and the eastern... Read more |