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Ilana Cohen

Ilana Cohen

Reporter, New York City

Ilana Cohen is a proud New Yorker and a rising junior at Harvard University studying philosophy and social studies. As a college freshman, she helped relaunch the fossil fuel divestment campaign on Harvard’s campus and she currently serves as an Associate Managing Editor of the Harvard Political Review, for which she has written and edited numerous pieces on climate and environmental issues. As a freelance journalist, Ilana has contributed to The Nation, The Guardian, The New York Daily News, WBUR, Gotham Gazette, The Harvard Crimson and City Limits.

In May, as the Covid-19 pandemic swept cthe nation, normally jammed highways in Los Angeles were nearly empty. The absence of traffic led to steep reductions in carbon emissions, at least for a while. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Covid-19 and Climate Change Will Remain Inextricably Linked, Thanks to the Parallels (and the Denial)

By Ilana Cohen

Traffic moves on 2nd Avenue in the morning hours on March 15, 2019 in New York City. Credit: Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images

Is Trump Holding Congestion Pricing in New York City Hostage?

By Ilana Cohen

Last year, Clif unveiled a two-megawatt, five-acre solar farm with pollinator-friendly habitat at its bakery in Twin Falls, Idaho. Credit: Jared Lauritsen

Pollinator-Friendly Solar Could be a Win-Win for Climate and Landowners, but Greenwashing is a Worry

By Ilana Cohen

Firefighters battle a brush fire in the Meadowlands near MetLife Stadium on April 11, 2012 in Carlstadt, New Jersey. Credit: Michael Bocchieri/Getty Images

A Warming Planet Makes Northeastern Forests More Susceptible to Western-Style Wildfires

By Ilana Cohen

People gather in front of the White House during the Native Nations Rise protest on March 10, 2017 in Washington, D.C. Native tribes from around the US gathered for four days of protest against the administration of President Donald Trump and the Dakota A

Biden Has Promised to Kill the Keystone XL Pipeline. Activists Hope He’ll Nix Dakota Access, Too

By Ilana Cohen

Youth activists with the Sunrise Movement demonstrate in a Count Every Vote rally in Philadelphia. Credit: Rachael Warriner

Young Voters, Motivated by Climate Change and Environmental Justice, Helped Propel Biden’s Campaign

By Ilana Cohen

Climate activists protested the construction of the Perennial fracked gas power plant on Oct. 30 by delivering a letter to the offices of Gov. Kate Brown and Department of Energy Director Janine Benner demanding they take steps to terminate Perennial’s pe

Oregon Allows a Controversial Fracked Gas Power Plant to Begin Construction

By Ilana Cohen

Presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks during a Voter Mobilization event at Riverside High School in Durham, North Carolina on Oct. 18, 2020. Credit: Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Could Biden Name an Indigenous Secretary of the Interior? Environmental Groups are Hoping He Will.

By Ilana Cohen

Joe Biden (left) conducts a town hall in Philadelphia while President Donald Trump has a similar event in Miami on Oct. 15. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images; Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images

Climate Change Makes a (Very) Brief Appearance in Dueling Town Halls Held by Trump and Biden

By Ilana Cohen, Nicholas Kusnetz

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Vice President Mike Pence participate in the vice-presidential debate at Kingsbury Hall at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah on Oct. 7, 2020. Credit: Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images

The Pence-Harris Showdown Came up Well Short of an Actual 'Debate' on Climate Change

By Ilana Cohen, Marianne Lavelle

Duane Hanson and Sally Kwan live deep within Maine's North Woods and fear that construction of transmission lines for a project called New England Clean Energy Connect will destroy their idyllic existence. Credit: Sally Kwan

New York and New England Need More Clean Energy. Is Hydropower From Canada the Best Way to Get it?

By Ilana Cohen

Young Republican climate activists participate in a panel on solutions to climate change hosted by the Georgetown College Republicans in November 2019.

Young Republican Climate Activists Split Over How to Get Their Voices Heard in November’s Election

By Ilana Cohen

The sun rises behind the skyline of lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center in a haze created by smoke from west coast wildfires in New York City on September 17, 2020.

Smoke From Western Wildfires Darkens the Skies of the East Coast and Europe

By Ilana Cohen

Students in New York demonstrate during the Climate Strike, part of a worldwide day of climate strikes on Sept. 20, 2019. Credit: Barbara Alper/Getty Images

Q&A: Why Women Leading the Climate Movement are Underappreciated and Sometimes Invisible

By Ilana Cohen

New Yorkers enjoy the outdoors near the pier in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on July 20, 2020 in New York, New York. Credit: Roy Rochlin/Getty Images

New York's Heat-Vulnerable Neighborhoods Need to Go Green to Cool Off

By Ilana Cohen

Sen. Kamala Harris, along with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, introduced climate equity legislation on Thursday. Credit: Alexander Drago/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

Harris and Ocasio-Cortez Team up on a Climate ‘Equity’ Bill, Leaving Activists Hoping for Unity

By Ilana Cohen

A Climate Activist Turns His Digital Prowess to Organizing the Youth Vote in November

By Ilana Cohen

An Extinction Rebellion environmental activist mother group protest outside Google UK HQ demanding they stop climate deniers profiting on their platforms on October 16, 2019 in London, England. Credit: Ollie Millington/Getty Images

Extinction Rebellion, Greenpeace Campaign for a Breakup Between Big Tech and Big Oil

By Ilana Cohen

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