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Emma Merchant

Emma Foehringer Merchant

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Emma Foehringer Merchant is a journalist who has covered environmental issues ranging from disasters to wonky energy regulations to air pollution. She’s reported on the environment and energy for publications including The Boston Globe Magazine, The New Republic, Vice News, and Grist. Most recently, Emma covered clean energy as a staff writer for Greentech Media and helped alums of that organization form a new publication called Canary Media. She’s attending MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing and holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental analysis from Pomona College, where she lived through a California drought while studying how climate change is impacting the state’s environment and people.

A firefighter from Windsor, California, walks next to a wall of flames as he starts a back fire in tall dry grass while battling the Rocky Fire on July 30, 2015 in Lower Lake, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

In the US West, Researchers Consider a Four-Legged Tool to Fight Two Foes: Wildfire and Cheatgrass

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

A farmer digs to check soil moisture on his farmland in Firebaugh, California in the state's San Joaquin Valley, on March 11, 2009. Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

California Considers ‘Carbon Farming’ As a Potential Climate Solution. Ardent Proponents, and Skeptics, Abound

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Offshore turbines are construction off Block Island, Rhode Island, on Aug. 11, 2016. Credit: David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

As the Biden Administration Eyes Wind Leases Off California’s Coast, the Port of Humboldt Sees Opportunity

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Smoke from California wildfires hangs over the San Francisco skyline in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. Credit: Michael Short/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The Fight to Change US Building Codes

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

The GE-Alstom Block Island Wind Farm stands in the water off Block Island, Rhode Island, on Wednesday, Sept, 14, 2016. Credit: Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Can Biden’s Plan to Boost Offshore Wind Spread West?

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

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