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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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During a demonstration at Citibank’s headquarters in Manhattan on Wednesday, 33 protesters were taken into custody, including Rachel Rivera (center), a board member with New York Communities for Change. Credit: Keerti Gopal/Inside Climate News

Dozens of Climate Activists Arrested at Citibank Headquarters in New York City During Earth Week

By Keerti Gopal

In ‘The People vs. Citi,’ Climate Leaders Demand Citibank End Its Fossil Fuel Financing

By Keerti Gopal

If Zain Haq (left) is deported, he’ll be separated from his wife and his community. Credit: Courtesy photo

Will Canada Deport a Student Climate Activist on Earth Day?

By Keerti Gopal

Rep. Summer Lee attends a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on May 16, 2023. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images

As a Contested Pittsburgh Primary Nears, Climate Advocates Rally Around a Progressive Fracking Opponent, Rep. Summer Lee

By Keerti Gopal, Kiley Bense

Members of Climate Defiance use the eclipse to raise awareness about climate issues during totality in Burlington, Vermont. Credit: Courtesy of Climate Defiance

Across the US, Awe Unites During the Darkness of a Total Solar Eclipse

By Lee Hedgepeth, Erin Schulte, Keerti Gopal, Kiley Bense, Liza Gross, Phil McKenna

Biologist Sandra Steingraber, an anti-fracking activist with Concerned Health Professionals of New York, speaks during a March 5 rally at the New York State Capitol in Albany. Credit: Food & Water Watch

New York State Legislature Votes to Ban CO2 Fracking, Closing a Decade-Old Loophole in State Law

By Keerti Gopal

After 36 hours inside the Mountain Valley Pipeline, the activist was charged with four misdemeanors and released on a $3,500 bail.

To Stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a Young Activist Spends 36 Hours Inside it

By Keerti Gopal

On Feb. 27, About 100 people marched from the New York Public Library’s flagship location in midtown Manhattan to the headquarters of three insurance companies. Credit: Keerti Gopal/Inside Climate News

‘Insure Our Future:’ A Global Movement Says the Insurance Industry Could Be the Key to Ending Fossil Fuels

By Keerti Gopal

National Police officers remove climate activists from trees in Spain's Madrid Río Park. The environmental group Extinction Rebellion was protesting against tree felling that began in the park on Dec. 11, 2023. Credit: Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty Images

United Nations Official Says State Repression of Environmental Defenders Threatens Democracy and Human Rights

By Keerti Gopal, Bob Berwyn

About 130 people gathered at the “Green New Deal for the People” rally in Pittsburgh last Thursday. Credit: Elevate Inc/Green New Deal Network

A National Tour Calling for a Reborn and Ramped Up Green New Deal Lands in Pittsburgh

By Keerti Gopal

After they were removed from the building, Sunrise Movement members continued to demonstrate outside President Joe Biden’s campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Del. on Feb. 12. Credit: Adah Crandall

‘Lead or Lose!’ Young People Arrested at Biden’s Campaign Headquarters Call for Climate Action and a Ceasefire

By Keerti Gopal

Climate Defiance's first big action was at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in April 2023. Credit: Courtesy of Climate Defiance

How a Climate Group That Has Made Chaos Its Brand Got the White House’s Ear

By Keerti Gopal

Will Biden’s Temporary Pause of Gas Export Projects Win Back Young Voters?

By Kristoffer Tigue, Keerti Gopal

Activists gather outside of the RBC Centre in downtown Toronto in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land defenders on Dec. 21, 2021. Credit: Katherine Cheng/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Trial of Land Defenders Fighting the Coastal GasLink Pipeline is Put on Hold as Canadian Police Come Under Scrutiny for Excessive Force

By Keerti Gopal

The energy at the Costco demonstration was celebratory, with balloons, cake and music. Credit: Alex Garland/Third Act/Stop the Money Pipeline

Costco Members Welcome New CEO With a Party—and a Demand to Drop Citibank

By Keerti Gopal

The protesters' signage reflected multiple demands on climate change and the humanitarian crisis in Palestine. Credit: Keerti Gopal/Inside Climate News

Activists Condemn Speakers at The New York Times’ Dealbook Summit for Driving Climate Change and Call for Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza

By Keerti Gopal

An aerial View of vast plantations of palm trees for the production palm oil in Banjarmasin, Kalimantan, Indonesia. Credit: EyesWideOpen/Getty Images

Forests Are Worth More Than Their Carbon, a New Paper Argues

By Keerti Gopal

Climate protesters block the doors to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on Monday as an NYPD police officer with the strategic Response Group, which specializes in large demonstrations, crowd control, and major events, center, watches over the demonstrators and another officer arrests a protester, left. Credit: Keerti Gopal

More Than 100 Protesters Arrested in New York City While Calling on the Federal Reserve to End Fossil Fuel Financing

By Keerti Gopal

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