Elaine Shannon, Environmental Working Group's editor-in-chief has written three books, contributed to two others and authored thousands of magazine and newspaper articles. She grew up in Gainesville, Georgia where, as a Girl Scout, she hiked the Blue Ridge mountains and explored the Chattahoochee and Chestatee rivers.
Elaine Shannon, Environmental Working Group's editor-in-chief has written three books, contributed to two others and authored thousands of magazine and newspaper articles. She grew up in Gainesville, Georgia where, as a Girl Scout, she hiked the Blue Ridge mountains and explored the Chattahoochee and Chestatee rivers. At the Nashville Tennessean, she focused on the politics of energy, strip mining and air and water pollution, then moved on to Newsweek and Time, covering political, legal and national security issues. She joined EWG in May 2008 to return to environmental and science writing. Elaine, her husband Dan Morgan, a Washington Post agriculture specialist, and their son Shannon Morgan, a Colorado College environmental science student and bicycle racer, climb, bike, hike, ski, kayak and photograph creatures great and small.
