Alex Brown
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Alex Brown covers environmental issues for Stateline. Prior to joining Pew, Brown wrote for The Chronicle in Lewis County, Washington state. He’s won awards for investigative reporting and feature writing from the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Association.
![Joth Davis shows off his crop of sugar kelp at Blue Dot Sea Farms in Washington’s Hood Canal. The 5-acre site is currently the only seaweed farm in the state, and officials there and elsewhere say that burdensome permitting systems are holding back ocean farming. March 2022](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/sugar-kelp-washington-farming-march-2022.jpg)
![Pineview Reservoir in Utah’s Ogden Valley fell to a quarter full in August. One water district in the valley has blocked new hookups for developers to save its scarce supply for existing users. October 2021](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Pineview-Reservoir-dried-up-utah-summer-2021.jpg)