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Keerti Gopal

Keerti Gopal

Reporter, Health and Justice

Keerti Gopal covers intersections between climate change, public health and environmental justice at Inside Climate News. Previously, she covered climate activism and movement repression. She is a National Geographic Explorer and has received fellowships from Fulbright, the Solutions Journalism Network, The Lever, and the National Press Foundation.

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People carry their belongings through a flooded area after heavy monsoon rainfall in Punjab, Pakistan on Aug. 25, 2022. Credit: Shahid Saeed Mirza/AFP via Getty Images

Invisible Deaths: As Climate Disasters Kill in Pakistan, the True Scale Is Unknown

By Keerti Gopal

Nearly half of the tap water in the U.S. is contaminated with toxic PFAS. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

EPA Says It Will Act on PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals.’ Advocates Raise Red Flags

By Keerti Gopal

People walk through New York City’s Central Park as smoke from wildfires in Canada cause unhealthy air quality on June 7, 2023. Credit: Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images

Nearly Half of Americans Are Breathing Unhealthy Air as Pollution Exposure Numbers Reach Decade High

By Keerti Gopal

Over an hour and a half, Chicago residents voiced distrust with the city at a community meeting about redevelopment of the U.S. Steel South Works site. Credit: Keerti Gopal/Inside Climate News

After Decades of Shattered Trust, Chicagoans Demand Transparency on South Side Quantum Computing Development

By Keerti Gopal

An oil refinery operates next to a neighborhood of homes in Wilmington, Calif. Credit: Allison Dinner/Getty Images

EPA Deregulation Would Be a ‘Tragedy’ for Health, Experts Say

By Keerti Gopal

A school bus was thrown onto the roof of the former Winterboro High School building in Talladega County, Ala. during this weekend's severe weather. Credit: Courtesy of NWS Birmingham

Severe Weather Warnings Persist After a Deadly Weekend of Tornadoes, Dust Storms and Fires

By Keerti Gopal, Lee Hedgepeth

Paramedics treat a person who fainted in front of the Supreme Court on June 20, 2024, as temperatures reached more than 90 degrees Fahrenheit in Washington, D.C. Credit: Andrew Leyden/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Americans Are Increasingly Aware That Climate Change Is Harming Their Health

By Keerti Gopal

An aerial view of Venture Global's Plaquemines LNG export terminal in Port Sulphur, La. Credit: Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Louisiana Gas Export Terminal Gets Key Approval to Move Ahead

By Keerti Gopal

A section of lead pipe that supplied drinking water to a home in Troy, N.Y. is removed on May 20, 2024. Credit: Will Waldron/Albany Times Union via Getty Images

An EPA Rule Will Reduce Lead in Drinking Water—Unless This Effort to Block It Succeeds

By Keerti Gopal

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, testifies during his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing on Jan. 29 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images

RFK Jr. Confirmation Hearing Highlighted His Inconsistency But Overlooked Climate and Environment

By Keerti Gopal

The landing page for the “Environmental Justice” section of whitehouse.gov on Friday, Jan. 24.

As Trump Targets Biden’s Environmental Justice Initiatives, Activists Gear Up for Legal Fights

By Kristoffer Tigue, Keerti Gopal, Marianne Lavelle

A wind turbine generates electricity at the Block Island Wind Farm off the shores of Rhode Island. Credit: John Moore/Getty Images

Executive Orders on Energy and Climate Have Advocates Across the Nation on Edge

By Dan Gearino, Aman Azhar, Amy Green, Dylan Baddour, Jake Bolster, Keerti Gopal, Kiley Bense, Lauren Dalban, Lisa Sorg, Liza Gross, Marianne Lavelle, Nicholas Kusnetz, Phil McKenna

A group with the Summer of Heat on Wall Street campaign stages a children's memorial at Citibank’s Manhattan headquarters and CEO Jane Fraser's home on July 27, 2024, to highlight children displaced by climate change. Credit: Keerti Gopal/Inside Climate News

With Trump’s Second Term Looming, the Climate Movement Is Putting Class Issues Center Stage

By Keerti Gopal

Emma Ireland and Charles Philip Laurie from Just Stop Oil pose with their supporters outside of the Royal Courts of Justice in London before their hearing on Oct. 22. Credit: Keerti Gopal/Inside Climate News

Shell Wins Injunctions Against UK Gas Station Protesters Amid Growing Threats to Activism

By Keerti Gopal

Several hundred activists marched through the streets of London on Oct. 28, holding flags bearing the Extinction Rebellion logo and posters calling for insurance companies to stop underwriting fossil fuel projects. Credit: Keerti Gopal/Inside Climate News

To End the Fossil Fuel Era, Activists in London Target the Insurance Industry

By Keerti Gopal

Volunteers work to remove debris and mud from a flooded home in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on Oct. 5 in Swannanoa, N.C. Credit: Steve Exum/Getty Images

Grassroots Hurricane Relief Efforts Fight Disinformation, Slow Bureaucracies and More Frequent Catastrophes

By Keerti Gopal

Students vote at the University of California, Irvine on Tuesday. Credit: Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images

Despite Climate Concerns, Young Voter Turnout Slumped and Its Support Split Between the Parties

By Keerti Gopal

U.S. Capitol Police arrest a climate activist during a protest on Capitol Hill in 2021. Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images

A Second Trump Presidency Could Threaten Already Shrinking Freedoms for Protest and Dissent

By Keerti Gopal

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