Retired Portland teacher Bill Bigelow gets Scholastic to stop sending schools a pro-coal industry pamphlet
Bill Bigelow is a soft-spoken man, most often dressed in blue jeans and a ball cap. He looks as if he'd be more at home bouncing a baby on his knee than battling the heads of a multinational corporation. But Bigelow, a retired Portland high school teacher and longtime Northeast Portland resident, is the man behind a movement that successfully lobbied Scholastic, the world's largest publisher of children's books, to stop distributing a pamphlet it had created for the American Coal Foundation.