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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.

The twin towers of the coker at the sprawling Limetree Bay refinery in St. Croix. Since February when the refinery restarted after an eight-year hiatus, problems with the coker and other processing units have created massive amounts of pressure inside the refinery, causing flares of oil and toxic emissions that have sickened downwind neighbors within seven miles. Credit: Patricia Borns

As Harsh Financial Realities Emerge, St. Croix’s Limetree Bay Refinery Could Be Facing Bankruptcy

By Kristoffer Tigue

Demonstrators are detained at an Enbridge Inc. Line 3 pump station during a 'Treaty People Gathering' protest in Hubbard County, Minnesota, on Monday, June 7, 2021. Credit: Nicole Neri/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Thousands Came to Minnesota to Protest New Construction on the Line 3 Pipeline. Hundreds Left in Handcuffs but More Vowed to Fight on.

By Sam Palca, Kristoffer Tigue, Phil McKenna

The Royal Dutch Shell logo seen at a gas station in Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul. Credit: Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Dutch Court Gives Shell Nine Years to Cut Its Carbon Emissions by 45 Percent from 2019 Levels

By Kristoffer Tigue, Dan Gearino

Citing an ‘Imminent’ Health Threat, the EPA Orders Temporary Shut Down of St. Croix Oil Refinery

By Kristoffer Tigue

The U.S. Army National Guard conducts fenceline testing for sulfur dioxide on May 10 at the Limetree Bay oil refinery in St. Croix, part of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Credit: Capt. Marcia Bruno/National Guard

A U.S. Virgin Islands Oil Refinery Had Yet Another Accident. Residents Are Demanding Answers

By Kristoffer Tigue

Limetree Bay Terminals in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands on Jan. 27, 2018. Credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images

EPA to Send Investigators to Probe ‘Distressing’ Incidents at the Limetree Refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands

By Kristoffer Tigue

Neighbors Kelly Hagen (left) and Dixie Wilkinson stand in their respective yards on April 22, 2021 in Pensacola, Florida. Their homes are located next to the now closed American Creosote Works, now an EPA Superfund site which is causing environmental problems for the area and health problems for the residents who live near it. Credit: Dan Anderson

The EPA Calls an Old Creosote Works in Pensacola an Uncontrolled Threat to Human Health. Why Is There No Money to Clean it Up?

By Agya K. Aning, Katie Surma, Kristoffer Tigue

The EPA Is Asking a Virgin Islands Refinery for Information on its Spattering of Neighbors With Oil

By Kristoffer Tigue

The Biden EPA Withdraws a Key Permit for an Oil Refinery on St. Croix, Citing ‘Environmental Justice’ Concerns

By Kristoffer Tigue

Donald Trump’s Parting Gift to the People of St. Croix: The Reopening of One of America’s Largest Oil Refineries

By Kristoffer Tigue

Protesters of Enbridge Energy's Line 3 replacement project walk through the project's construction zone near Palisade, Minnesota. The oil pipeline will stretch through 337 miles in northern Minnesota. Credit: Nedahness Greene

Urging Biden to Stop Line 3, Indigenous-Led Resistance Camps Ramp Up Efforts to Slow Construction

By Kristoffer Tigue

U.S. President Joe Biden prepares to sign executive orders after speaking about climate change issues in the State Dining Room of the White House on January 27, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Biden signed several executive orders related to the climate change crisis on Wednesday, including one directing a pause on new oil and natural gas leases on public lands. Also pictured, left to right, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry and Vice President Kamala Harris. Credit: Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images

‘We Need to Be Bold,’ Biden Says, Taking the First Steps in a Major Shift in Climate Policy

By Marianne Lavelle, Agya K. Aning, Dan Gearino, David Hasemyer, James Bruggers, Katie Surma, Kristoffer Tigue, Phil McKenna

Chemical plants and factories line the roads and suburbs of the area known as 'Cancer Alley' along the Mississippi River in Louisiana on Oct. 15, 2013. Credit: Giles Clarke/Getty Images

Activists See Biden’s Day One Focus on Environmental Justice as a Critical Campaign Promise Kept

By Kristoffer Tigue, Agya K. Aning, Judy Fahys, Katie Surma

The capped site of the former Diamond Alkali factory on the Passaic River in Newark, New Jersey, which is part of one of the largest and most expensive cleanup projects in the EPA's Superfund program. The community surrounding the toxic site is primarily lower-income Black and brown residents. Credit: NBC News

Will 2021 Be the Year for Environmental Justice Legislation? States Are Already Leading the Way

By Kristoffer Tigue

A new phone app called "Cranky Uncle" uses a science-denying uncle cartoon character to illustrate different methods of disinformation on science topics like climate change. Credit: Autonomy/John Cook

Warming Trends: The ‘Cranky Uncle’ Game, Good News About Bowheads and Steps to a Speedier Energy Transition

By Kristoffer Tigue, Katelyn Weisbrod, Sabrina Shankman

President-elect Joe Biden delivers remarks about the U.S. economy during a press briefing at the Queen Theater on Nov. 16, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Is Climate-Related Financial Regulation Coming Under Biden? Wall Street Is Betting on It

By Kristoffer Tigue

The San Fransisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to ban natural gas in new buildings, meaning that stoves, furnaces and water heaters will no longer burn gas. Credit: Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

San Francisco Becomes the Latest City to Ban Natural Gas in New Buildings, Citing Climate Effects

By Kristoffer Tigue

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Q&A: A Law Professor Studies How Business is Making Climate Progress Where Government is Failing

By Kristoffer Tigue

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