The Environmentalist is a public interest, eco-investigative journalism website that reports on the geopolitics and science of climate change, general politics, sustainable living, business impact and the history of affected regions. Founding Founded in November, 2006, The Environmentalist writers include Huffington Post environmental and geopolitical contributor, Janet Ritz; Presidential Climate Action Plan executive director, William S. Becker; award-winning playwright and author, Sherman Yellen; author of The Real McCain, Cliff Schecter; filmmaker Greg Reitman, producer of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival award-winning documentary, Fields of Fuel; Democratic activist Terry Leach; as well as scientists, environmental lawyers and various guest contributors. Founding publisher and managing editor, Janet Ritz, is the daughter of award-winning Associated Press courtroom artist and journalist, Rosalie Ritz. An environmental activist and writer who was mentored in her youth by writer and composer Joaquin Nin-Culmell, concert promoter Bill Graham and artist Zahara Schatz, Janet Ritz founded The Environmentalist in 2006 as a forum for unfiltered climate science information after learning from colleagues about the editing of James E. Hansen's climate science reports by the Bush administration. In August, 2007, Ritz wrote an article for the Huffington Post which reported cuts in climate science satellites that were concurrent with a declaration by the Bush administration to become more involved in fighting global warming. This led to an expansion of The Environmentalist format to include topics beyond the environment. In January, 2008, The Environmentalist began to be picked up by wire services. In April, 2008, the editorial page was launched when Ritz published a tribute to her late mother's work on both the Huffington Post and The Environmentalist. World news, history and resource pages followed soon after. Format The Environmentalist displays articles under the following sections (verticals): Home, Politics, Climate, World, Science, History, Business, Resources, Editorial, Lifestyle, Eco-Links, Tags and Archive. The articles are noted for their use of illustrations, photographs, charts and diagrams to clarify article points and conclusions. A public interest website, The Environmentalist, is published under a Creative Commons 3.0 license with many of its articles carried by various online wire services, including Reuters, Chicago Sun-Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Fox News, IBS and USA Today. Notable articles In November, 2008, The Environmentalist published an editorial by Presidential Climate Action Plan (PCAP) executive director, Bill Becker, entitled "Struggling for Obama's Soul" that followed a review of Becker's book, The 100 Day Action Plan to Save the Planet summarizing the PCAP