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Kristoffer Tigue

Reporter, New York City

Kristoffer Tigue is a New York City-based reporter for Inside Climate News, where he covers environmental justice issues, writes the Today’s Climate newsletter and manages ICN’s social media. His work has been published in Reuters, Scientific American, Public Radio International and CNBC. Tigue holds a Master’s degree in journalism from the Missouri School of Journalism, where his feature writing won several Missouri Press Association awards.

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., is seen after the Senate Luncheons in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

What Is Permitting Reform? Here’s a Primer on the Drive to Fast Track Energy Projects—Both Clean and Fossil Fuel

By Dan Gearino, Kristoffer Tigue

EPA Administrator Michael Regan arrives to an event on new national clean air standards for heavy-duty trucks near the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters on Dec. 20, 2022 in Washington, DC. Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Six Environmental Justice Policy Fights to Watch in 2023

By Kristoffer Tigue, Aydali Campa, Darreonna Davis

Nighttime traffic rolls into downtown Austin along Interstate 35 at Manor Road in a time-exposure from the highway overpass. Credit: Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc/Corbis via Getty Images

Activists Are Suing Texas Over Its Plan to Expand Interstate 35, Saying the Project Is Bad for Environmental Justice and the Climate

By Camryn Garza, Kristoffer Tigue

The sun shines over towers carrying electrical lines August 30, 2007 in South San Francisco, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

California Released a Bold Climate Plan, but Critics Say It Will Harm Vulnerable Communities and Undermine Its Goals

By Kristoffer Tigue

People walk down a flooded street as they evacuate their homes after the area was inundated with flooding from Hurricane Harvey on Aug. 28, 2017 in Houston, Texas. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Red States Still Pose a Major Threat to Biden’s Justice40 Initiative, Activists Warn

By Kristoffer Tigue

Pennsylvania Rep. Summer Lee (D) speaks on stage about the change of the face of power in the United States after a history making number of diverse members were sworn into Congress the past elections, during a keynote discussion of the Netroots Nation progressive grassroots convention in Philadelphia on July 13, 2019. Credit: Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images

A Climate Progressive Leads a Crowded Democratic Field for Pittsburgh’s 12th Congressional District Seat

By Kristoffer Tigue

A gas flare in a Total oil refining plant is seen near Port Arthur, Texas on Aug. 28, 2020. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Activists Laud Biden’s New Environmental Justice Appointee, But Concerns Linger Over Equity and Funding

By Kristoffer Tigue

A family wears face masks as they walk through the smoke filled streets after the Thomas wildfire swept through Ventura, California on Dec. 6, 2017. Credit: Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images

The ‘State of the Air’ in America Is Unhealthy and Getting Worse, Especially for People of Color

By Kristoffer Tigue

An aerial view of the campus at Texas A&M on Sept. 8, 2012 in College Station, Texas. Credit: Kevin Butts/Replay Photos via Getty Images

Texas A&M Shut Down a Major Climate Change Modeling Center in February After a ‘Default’ by Its Chinese Partner

By Kristoffer Tigue, Inside Climate News and Samantha Ketterer, Houston Chronicle

Solar panels combined with generators provide electricity on Mona Island, Puerto Rico. Credit: David S. Holloway/Getty Images

Puerto Rico Is Struggling to Meet Its Clean Energy Goals, Despite Biden’s Support

By Kristoffer Tigue

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., speaks during the Ban Russian Energy Imports Act news conference in the Capitol on Thursday, March 3, 2022. Credit: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Today’s Climate: Manchin, Eyeing a Revival of Build Back Better, Wants a Ban on Russian Oil and Gas

By Kristoffer Tigue

Chevron's oil refinery in Richmond, California, is the state's single largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and is located in a city where people of color make up more than 60 percent of the population, and nearly 15 percent of households fall below the federal poverty line. Credit: Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Why Do Environmental Justice Advocates Oppose Carbon Markets? Look at California, They Say

By Kristoffer Tigue

People make their way trough traffic on Jan. 18, 2018 in downtown Newark, New Jersey. Credit: Eduardo MunozAlvarez/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images

As States Move to Electrify Their Fleets, Activists Demand Greater Environmental Justice Focus

By Kristoffer Tigue

President Joe Biden speaks to the press after attending a meeting with the Senate Democratic Caucus on Capitol Hill, on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Amid Delayed Action and White House Staff Resignations, Activists Wonder What’s Next for Biden’s Environmental Agenda

By Kristoffer Tigue, Ariel Gans

The St. Croix neighborhood of Clifton Hill overlooks a quieted Limetree Bay Refinery on Tuesday, May 25 after a stack fire and massive oil flare caused a 60-day shutdown ordered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Clifton Hill residents, many of whom migrated to St. Croix from nearby Vieques, are no strangers to the refinery’s discharges under its previous owner, Hovensa. But the most recent shower of oil on their homes, cars, gardens and cisterns was the second in little over three months as the beleaguered 60-year-old refinery struggled to resume operations after an eight-year hiatus. Credit: Patricia Borns

Plans to Reopen St. Croix’s Limetree Refinery Have Analysts Surprised and Residents Concerned

By Kristoffer Tigue

The Williamsburg Bridge is seen in front of the Brooklyn skyline as steam rises from the Con Edison power plant on Jan. 5, 2018 in New York City. Credit: John Moore/Getty Images

New York’s Right to ‘a Healthful Environment’ Could Be Bad News for Fossil Fuel Interests

By Kristoffer Tigue

President Joe Biden speaks during a press conference in the State Dining Room at the White House on Nov. 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Samuel Corum/Getty Images

Confusion Over Line 5 Shutdown Highlights Biden’s Tightrope Walk on Climate and Environmental Justice

By Kristoffer Tigue

Shipping container trucks sit in traffic as the International Longshore and Warehouse Union strikes, putting a halt to most of the work at the busiest seaport complex in the nation on November 29, 2012 in Long Beach, California. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Diesel Emissions in Major US Cities Disproportionately Harm Communities of Color, New Studies Confirm

By Kristoffer Tigue

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