Jeff Alexander, the principal at J. Alexander Communications LLC, is an award winning writer and editor who worked for 25 years as a journalist. He is the author of two critically acclaimed books, was an award-winning environmental reporter and now serves as a media consultant for one of the nation's largest conservation organizations. His newspaper articles led to pollution cleanups worth more than $30 million, prompted a ban on expanded oil exploration beneath Lake Michigan and forced the U.S. Coast Guard to abandon plans to conduct live-fire weapons training on the Great Lakes.