Emma Foehringer Merchant
Contributor
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.
In the Deluged Mountains of Santa Cruz, Residents Cope With Compounding Disasters
By Emma Foehringer Merchant
Wildfire Smoke May Worsen Extreme Blazes Near Some Coasts, According to New Research
By Emma Foehringer Merchant
When the State Cut Their Water, These California Users Created a Collaborative Solution
By Emma Foehringer Merchant
California Regulators Approve Reduced Solar Compensation for Homeowners
By Emma Foehringer Merchant
The US Forest Service Planned to Increase Burning to Prevent Wildfires. Will a Pause on Prescribed Fire Instead Bring More Delays?
By Emma Foehringer Merchant
Amid Punishing Drought, California Is Set to Adopt Rules to Reduce Water Leaks. The Process has Lagged
By Emma Foehringer Merchant
Expansion of a Lucrative Dairy Digester Market is Sowing Environmental Worries in the U.S.
By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Grace van Deelen
Just Two Development Companies Drive One of California’s Most Controversial Climate Programs: Manure Digesters
By Grace van Deelen, Emma Foehringer Merchant
California Has Provided Incentives for Methane Capture at Dairies, but the Program May Have ‘Unintended Consequences’
By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Grace van Deelen
Too Hot to Work, Too Hot to Play
By James Pothen, Emma Foehringer Merchant, Grace van Deelen, Hannah Loss, Myriam Vidal, Rachel Rodriguez, Samantha Hurley
Out in the Fields, Contemplating Humanity and a Parched Almond Farm
By Emma Foehringer Merchant
In the US West, Researchers Consider a Four-Legged Tool to Fight Two Foes: Wildfire and Cheatgrass
By Emma Foehringer Merchant
California Considers ‘Carbon Farming’ As a Potential Climate Solution. Ardent Proponents, and Skeptics, Abound
By Emma Foehringer Merchant
As the Biden Administration Eyes Wind Leases Off California’s Coast, the Port of Humboldt Sees Opportunity
By Emma Foehringer Merchant
The Fight to Change US Building Codes
By Emma Foehringer Merchant
