Philip Shabecoff

Phil Shabecoff is an American reporter and environmentalist.

He worked for The New York Times 32 years, where he was, for 14 years, chief environmental correspondent . He was also foreign correspondent in Europe and Asia, White House correspondent during the Nixon and Ford administrations, and he covered national economics, labor, and health care policy .

After having left the New York Times, he founded in 1991 Greenswire, which was bought in 2000 by Environment & Energy Publishing. The next year, Shabecoff published Earth Rising: American Environmentalism in the 21st Century, in which he argues that environmental concerns can not be met without confronting other issues, mainly social and economical. He thus underlines the failure to "recognize and acknowledge that the decline of the environment is not an issue distinct from other flaws in our society" and that environmentalists "are in the same boat with other groups of Americans who are thwarted and victimized by the status quo".

Shabecoff has received the James Madison Award from the American Library Association for leadership in expanding the public's right to know and was an original nominee for the Global 500 award from the United Nation's Environmental Program .

Bibliography

• Shabecoff, Phil and Shabecoff, Alice, Poisoned for Profit. How Toxins are Making Our Children Chronically Ill
• Shabecoff, Phil (2003), A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement, Island Press
• Shabecoff, Phil (2001), Earth Rising: American Environmentalism in the 21st Century, Island Press
• Shabecoff, Phil (1996), A New Name For Peace: International Environmentalism, Sustainable Development, and Democracy, University Press of New England, 1996