Suemedha Sood

I cover the environment for The Washington Independent. I've worked in journalism for five years and my writing has appeared in The Nation, AlterNet, Pop Matters, and Wiretap Magazine. When I'm not reporting for the Independent, I write about food, art, music and culture for The Washington Post Express and The Onion A.V. Club. If you have a tip for an environment story or just want to chat, send me an email at ssood@washingtonindependent.com.

• The Great Offshore Drilling Flip-Flops 08/06/2008
• Affordable Housing Goes Green 08/05/2008
• FEMA Braces for Slew of Trailer Suits 07/31/2008
• Senate Dems Call on EPA Chief to Resign 07/29/2008
• EPA to Employees: Don't Talk to Investigators 07/29/2008 | 1 Comment
• Site Selection Extremely Important In Underground Carbon Storage 07/24/2008 | 1 Comment
• With Hurricane Dolly, McCain May Have To Back Off On Offshore Drilling 07/24/2008 | 1 Comment
• Is Wal-Mart Playing FDA? 07/22/2008
• EPA Says Global Warming Is Bad For Us 07/18/2008 | 2 Comments
• Suspicion Surrounds Firing of EPA Panel Chair 07/17/2008
• EPA Proposes Rule for Burying CO2 07/16/2008
• Extending or Stalling? 07/11/2008 | 3 Comments
• G8 Agreement Not So GR8 07/09/2008
• Dems Consider Offshore Drilling 07/09/2008 | 1 Comment
• Waxman: FEMA and Industry Hurt Consumers 07/09/2008
• Oversight Committee Takes Up Toxic Trailers 07/09/2008
• Environmental Groups to File Suit Over Va. Coal Plant 07/08/2008 | 1 Comment
• National Support for Energy Exploration Up 07/03/2008 | 2 Comments
• Consumer Safety Panel Weakened 07/03/2008
• Some Good News for Nature 07/01/2008 | 1 Comment
• Get Ready for Green Bundling 07/01/2008
• Golden State Plans to Go Green 06/27/2008
• Why The White House Silenced EPA On Greenhouse Gases 06/26/2008 | 2 Comments
• In and Out With Offshore Drilling 06/24/2008
• Intel Community: Global Warming = Security Threat 06/24/2008 | 1 Comment
• Text Book Shaky on Global Warming 06/20/2008
• Solar's Potential 06/19/2008
• McCain Says We Should Go Nuclear 06/19/2008
• Reid: McCain, Bush Offshore Drilling Plan a 'Cynical Campaign Ploy' 06/18/2008 | 1 Comment
• I've Made a Huge Mistake 06/17/2008
• Keeping the (Electric) Car Running 06/13/2008 | 3 Comments
• Pricey Alternative: Nuclear Energy 06/12/2008 | 4 Comments
• Coal Ash Victims Get A Hearing 06/10/2008
• McCain v. Obama on Energy 06/09/2008 | 1 Comment
• Climate Battle Hints at Next Year 06/09/2008 | 1 Comment
• We Were Wondering The Same Thing 06/05/2008 | 1 Comment
• Troubled Bee Colonies Go it Alone 06/04/2008 | 5 Comments
• Senate GOPers Stalling on Climate Change Bill 06/04/2008
• What Does the Delegate News Mean for the Environment? 06/04/2008 | 1 Comment
• Water Shortage Means Food Shortage 06/03/2008
• P.S. 06/03/2008
• Whistle Blower Vindicated, Two Years Later 06/03/2008
• Debate Over Warming Bill Heats Up 06/03/2008
• Emissions Caps, a Hinderance or a Help? 05/30/2008
• Report: City Slickers Produce Less CO2 05/29/2008
• Nice Try, Rockefellers 05/29/2008 | 1 Comment
• EPA Success Masks Problems 05/28/2008
• Building Tougher Schools 05/28/2008
• 889 out of 1,586 EPA Employees Agree 05/27/2008
• Nuclear Waste Import Standoff 05/23/2008
• ANP: Sex-Changing Fish Linked To River Pollution 05/23/2008
• Standing by Science 05/21/2008
• Nuclear Waste, Go Back to Italy 05/20/2008
• Is Fluoride Making You Fat? 05/19/2008 | 2 Comments
• Climate Change Changing Cyclones? 05/19/2008 | 1 Comment
• Poor Lil' Polar Bears 05/14/2008
• Straight Talk on Environment: Buy This T-Shirt 05/14/2008
• Boxer, Whitehouse Want Answers on Gade 05/13/2008
• Scientists Speak About Political Pressures 05/13/2008
• Dow Cleans Up Image, Not Practices 05/13/2008 | 2 Comments
• Nagris and Katrina 05/08/2008
• What's Fueling the Food Crisis? 05/06/2008
• An Appetizing, and Inedible, Option 05/06/2008 | 3 Comments
• Sucking Out That CO2 04/29/2008
• Activists to Protest Coal Plant 04/24/2008 | 3 Comments
• Survey: Local Health Officials Worry About Climate Change 04/24/2008
• And They're Really Not That Good for The Environment Either! 04/23/2008 | 3 Comments
• Scientists: EPA 'Under Siege' 04/23/2008 | 1 Comment
• Oooh, Pretty! 04/22/2008
• Comics Celebrate Earth Day 04/22/2008 | 1 Comment
• "Lo Que Tú Hagas Cuenta" 04/22/2008
• Committee Probes Industry Influence on EPA Panels 04/19/2008 | 1 Comment
• Safety of Chemicals in Baby Products in Question 04/17/2008
• Democrats React to Bush's Global Warming Speech 04/16/2008 | 1 Comment
• Bush: 'We're Doing A Lot To Protect This Environment' 04/16/2008
• Bush to Address New Global Warming 'Strategy' 04/16/2008
• EPA: Green House Gas Emissions Fell in 2006 04/16/2008 | 1 Comment
• More on Why We Need to Cover Global Warming Skeptics 04/15/2008
• Solar Industry Hopes for Tax Credit Extension 04/14/2008
• Harnessing the Sun: The Future of Green Jobs 04/11/2008 | 5 Comments
• When Is the Right Time to Act on Global Warming? 04/10/2008 | 1 Comment
• Bad News, Beer Lovers 04/10/2008
• Can Condoms Save the Rainforest? 04/08/2008
• World Health Day Takes on Global Warming 04/07/2008
• EPA Suits As Important as They Seem? 04/03/2008
• Calling Dibs on Gore 04/03/2008
• Hansen Joins Duke Energy Fight 04/02/2008 | 1 Comment
• A Stomach Ache for Mother Nature 04/02/2008 | 3 Comments
• Scientists Ignored on Toxic Trailers 04/01/2008
• More On Polycythemia Vera 04/01/2008
• Fossil Fools Day 04/01/2008 | 2 Comments
• Toxin Agency Official Hollers Back 03/31/2008 | 1 Comment
• Pesticide Exposure-Parkinson's Links Found 03/31/2008
• Milking It 03/25/2008 | 1 Comment
• Making Sure Animals Don't Cross the Border Either 03/24/2008 | 1 Comment
• One Step Closer to a Soot Solution 03/24/2008
• Censoring Climate Science 03/24/2008
• Researchers Develop Cleaner Energy Generation 03/21/2008
• Tibet: Losing ''Lost Horizon" 03/19/2008
• Board Calls For Protection From Disasters on U.S.-Mexico Border 03/19/2008
• Navajo Nation Sues EPA 03/19/2008
• Part Two: Toxin Agency Uses 'Unscientific Method' 03/18/2008
• What If You Want Even More Britney? 03/18/2008
• Deja Vu in the Great Lakes 03/18/2008
• The Chemistry Behind Removing EPA Panel Chairs 03/17/2008
• Ireland's Changing Shades of Green 03/17/2008
• Coal Plant Loan Program Suspended 03/13/2008
• EPA Can't Meet Standards Set by EPA Scientists 03/13/2008
• The Yes Men Are At It Again 03/12/2008
• Part One: Toxin Agency Looks the Other Way 03/12/2008
• Worse Than You Thought 03/10/2008 | 2 Comments
• Water Wars 03/06/2008
• Weird Science 03/06/2008
• Conference on Global Warming Skepticism Raises Important Debate 03/04/2008
• Renewable Energy Tradeshow Comes to Town 03/04/2008
• Breaking News...About Tom Waits 03/04/2008 | 1 Comment
• FEMA Sticks to Guns on Temporary Housing 02/28/2008
• Farm Bill Not Out to Pasture Afterall 02/27/2008
• Sources Holler Back on Coal Ash 02/25/2008
• Sources Holler Back on Desert Rock, Again 02/25/2008
• Sources Holler Back 02/21/2008 | 1 Comment
• Coal Industry Accused of Bribery 02/20/2008
• Desert Rock in a Nutshell 02/20/2008 | 2 Comments
• Navajo Energy Project Powerless 02/20/2008 | 4 Comments
• Residents Holler Back, Take Two 02/19/2008 | 1 Comment
• Residents Holler Back 02/19/2008 | 1 Comment
• Coal-Powered Plant Sparks Controversy 02/19/2008 | 5 Comments
• More Murmurings of a Carbon Tax 02/14/2008
• Who Is the Green Candidate? 02/13/2008
• Corn's Not Better Than Oil 02/11/2008 | 1 Comment
• Just How Green Can An Airline Be? 02/07/2008
• See, This is What I was Talking About 02/04/2008
• McCain, Scwarzenegger Get Chummy Over Tree Hugging 02/01/2008
• Plastic Hype? 02/01/2008
• Clean Coal Continued 01/31/2008
• Don't Drink the Water: Clean Coal's Downside 01/31/2008 | 2 Comments
• Bush on Energy 01/29/2008 | 1 Comment
• California's Oily Justices 01/28/2008 | 2 Comments
• Turning Sewage Into Evian 01/28/2008

• Hey Dave,
  Thanks for pointing out our mistake! The correction has been made and updated in t… 03/10/2008 01:45PM on Worse Than You Thought