St Clair was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and attended American University in Washington, D.C., majoring in English and history.
[citation needed] In the late 1970s he protested construction of the Marble Hill Nuclear Power Plant.
[4] This was followed by A Field Guide to Environmental Bad Guys (with James Ridgeway), and with Cockburn, Five Days that Shook the World: Seattle and Beyond, and Al Gore: a User's Manual.
St. Clair co-authored a weekly syndicated column with Alexander Cockburn called "Nature and Politics."
[5] Grand Theft Pentagon,[6] and Born Under a Bad Sky: Notes from the Dark Side of the Earth.