Tom Kenworthy
Senior Fellow
Tom Kenworthy is a Senior Fellow at American Progress. He joined American Progress after spending two years as a senior fellow at Western Progress, a regional nonpartisan policy institute in the Rocky Mountain West, where he focused on renewable energy and environmental issues.
Tom spent more than three decades as a newspaper reporter, the majority of that time with The Washington Post and USA Today. He has reported on a wide variety of subjects, including state and national government and politics, Congress, the environment, and the states of the Rocky Mountain West. His longtime specialties were public lands, natural resources, and energy issues, which he covered as a Denver-based national correspondent beginning in 1995. His environmental reporting has won awards from the Society of American Foresters and the Sierra Club. As a policy analyst, Tom has written commentaries and articles for a variety of national and regional publications.
Tom holds a B.A. in history from Cornell University in 1970. He lives in Golden, CO with his wife, Nancy.
Email: tkenworthy /@\ americanprogress.org
Articles by Tom Kenworthy
- The Obama Administration’s Disconnect on Coal, December 12, 2011
- A Better Model for Energy on Public Lands, November 1, 2011
- The Jobs Case for Conservation, September 20, 2011
- ‘Fracking’ Responsibly, August 11, 2011
- Moral Crossroads on Coal Exports, August 1, 2011
- Battle Over Presidential Authority to Designate Monuments Heats Up , June 29, 2011
- Utah Can Stick It to Uncle Sam and Take Back All the Parks , June 17, 2011
- Serious Nonsense over Public Lands, June 8, 2011
- Bringing Fracking to the Surface, June 3, 2011
- Coal-Fired Conflict, April 13, 2011
- Drilling Down on Fracking Concerns, March 21, 2011
- Getting It Right in the Second Round of Big Solar Projects, January 19, 2011
- Brown to Green, December 9, 2010
- Big Land, Big Opportunity, October 19, 2010
- Back at the Interior Department Ranch, July 7, 2010
- Fix the Real Problem: End America’s Energy Vulnerability, June 15, 2010
- As Wyoming Goes, So Goes the Nation?, June 15, 2010
- Calling the Shots in the Gulf, May 26, 2010
- Onshore Oil and Gas Drilling Done Right, May 25, 2010
- What Happens in Canada Doesn’t Stay in Canada, April 12, 2010
- Energy Industry Fights Chemical Disclosure, April 6, 2010
- Xcel-erating Natural Gas in Colorado, March 29, 2010
- Getting to the Bottom of Fracking, March 3, 2010
- HOME STAR: Putting Americans Back to Work, February 23, 2010
- A New Sheriff Cleans Up Federal Lands, February 8, 2010
- Clean Energy Will Help U.S. Ag, November 30, 2009
- Clean Energy for the Wild Blue Yonder, November 23, 2009
- Carbon Offsets Would Be a Boon to Farmers, November 12, 2009
- Farmers and Congress Shouldn’t Fall for this Hat Trick, October 26, 2009
- For Rural America One Answer Is Blowing in the Wind, September 28, 2009
- The Protected and the Protector, September 28, 2009
- What a 1-Degree Temperature Increase Means for Wildfires, September 1, 2009
- Energy Safeguards Done Right, August 27, 2009
- More Droughts Will Hurt Agriculture, July 7, 2009
- "Self-Reliant" Westerners Love Federal Handouts, July 6, 2009
- Frack Attack, June 25, 2009
- Higher Yields of Trouble for Farmers, June 16, 2009
- A Stormy Forecast for U.S. Agriculture, June 1, 2009
- A Renewable Energy Standard: The Proof Is in the States, May 19, 2009
- Sensible Action on WaterSense, May 13, 2009
- Wildfires Heat Up in the West, May 6, 2009
- A Tale of Two Energy Economies, April 20, 2009
- Smart Grid Plugs in for Boulder, April 13, 2009
- Don’t Flush an Energy Opportunity, March 30, 2009
- The River Drains Through It, March 30, 2009
- Reverse Bush-Era Pillage of the West, March 20, 2009
- It’s Easy Being Green: The Solar Surge in Colorado, March 11, 2009
