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Kiley Bense

Reporter, Pennsylvania

Kiley Bense covers climate change and the environment with a focus on Pennsylvania, politics, energy, and public health. She has reported on the effects of the fracking boom in Pennsylvania, the expansion of the American plastics industry, and the intersection of climate change and culture. Her previous work has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Smithsonian Magazine, the Believer, and Sierra Magazine, and she holds master’s degrees in journalism and creative writing from Columbia University. She is based in Pennsylvania.

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Democratic Sen. Bob Casey (left) and Republican Dave McCormick talk energy issues during Pennsylvania’s first Senate debate on Thursday. Credit: WHTM

Fact Checking the Pennsylvania Senate Candidates’ Debate Claims on Energy

By Kiley Bense

The first debate between Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and Republican challenger Dave McCormick will take place on Thursday. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images and Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket

7 Debate Questions about Climate Change and Energy for Pennsylvania’s Senate Candidates

By Kiley Bense

A view of U.S. Steel’s Edgar Thomson Works on March 20 in Braddock, Pennsylvania. Credit: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

In the Fight to Decide the Fate of US Steel, Climate and Public Health Take a Backseat to Politics

By Kiley Bense

A view of a fracking site in Marianna, Pennsylvania, on October 22, 2020. Credit: Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images

A Company’s Struggles Raise Questions About the Future of Lithium Extraction in Pennsylvania

By Kiley Bense

The cockpit view of the eXternal Vision System inside NASA’s Quesst aircraft, the X-59. Credit: Garry Tice/Lockheed Martin

Low Boom, High Pollution? NASA Readies for Supersonic Test Flight

By Marianne Lavelle, Kiley Bense

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are set to debate on Tuesday night. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images and Melina Mara/The Washington Post

10 Tough Climate Questions for the Presidential Debate

By Marianne Lavelle, Kiley Bense, Liza Gross

Trees and electrical wiring brought down by a tornado in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in September 2021. Credit: James Paulus

As Tornado Alley Shifts East, Bracing for Impact in Unexpected Places

By Kiley Bense

CNX Resources said the company’s fracking operations “poses no public health risks,” a contention that is at odds with many studies on the impacts of the gas industry. Credit: Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images

After Partnering With the State to Monitor Itself, a Pennsylvania Gas Company Declares Its Fracking Operations ‘Safe’

By Kiley Bense

Republican Dave McCormick (left) is challenging Democratic Sen. Bob Casey in Pennsylvania’s race for U.S. Senate. Credit: Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu and Matthew Hatcher/AFP via Getty Images

In Pennsylvania’s Competitive Senate Race, Fracking Takes Center Stage

By Kiley Bense

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (left) and Vice President Kamala Harris speak to the press at the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia on July 13. Credit: Ryan Collerd/AFP via Getty Images

A New National Spotlight Shines on Josh Shapiro’s Contested Environmental Record

By Kiley Bense

Philip Evergood’s “Mine Disaster,” 1933-1937. Credit: Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Edward H. Coates Fund, 2010.1

For Appalachian Artists, the Landscape Is Much More Than the Sum of Its Natural Resources

By Kiley Bense

An injection well pumps oilfield wastewater into the ground in Coyle, Oklahoma. Credit: J Pat Carter/Getty Images

Peering Inside the Pandora’s Box of Oil and Gas Waste

By Kiley Bense

Smoke rises from a derailed cargo train in East Palestine, Ohio on Feb. 4, 2023. The train accident sparked a massive fire and evacuation orders. Credit: Dustin Franz/AFP via Getty Images

NTSB Says Norfolk Southern Threatened Staff as They Investigated the East Palestine Derailment

By Kiley Bense

Synchronous fireflies in a meadow at the 2021 Pennsylvania Firefly Festival. Credit: Peggy Butler

Will the Lightning Bug Show Go On?

By Kiley Bense

President Joe Biden receives an operational briefing from EPA officials on the response and recovery effort at the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment site on Feb. 16. Credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Ohio and Pennsylvania Residents Affected by the East Palestine Train Derailment Say Their ‘Basic Needs’ Are Still Not Being Met

By Kiley Bense

A fracking drilling pad operates in the Marcellus Shale formation near Robinson Township, Pa. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Pennsylvania’s Fracking Wastewater Contains a ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Critical Clean Energy Mineral Lithium

By Kiley Bense

The Shell cracker plant in Beaver County, Pennsylvania will produce more than a million tons of plastic along the Ohio River. Credit: Mark Dixon/CC BY 2.0 Deed

Q&A: Is Pittsburgh Becoming ‘the Plastic City’?

By Kiley Bense

Maya van Rossum has been the Delaware Riverkeeper for 30 years. As the river’s environmental guardian and the leader of the nonprofit Delaware Riverkeeper Network, van Rossum advocates for the health of the river and its ecosystem from New York to Delaware. Credit: Caroline Gutman/Inside Climate News

Maya van Rossum Wants to Save the World

By Kiley Bense

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