Tom Knudson has been honored many times for his journalism. His notable work for The Sacramento Bee includes "State of Denial," about the ways California's strict environmental policies conflict with its use of resources from environmentally fragile parts of the planet. That series can be found online at www.sacbee.com/denial. Knudson also is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. In 1992, his Bee series about the Sierra Nevada received a Pulitzer for public service; in 1985, he won the national reporting prize while working at The Des Moines (Iowa) Register.