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Lauren Dalban

Reporter, New York City

Lauren Dalban is a New York City-based reporter with a background in local journalism. A former ICN fellow, she now covers environmental issues in all five boroughs. Originally from London, she earned a B.A. in History and English from the University of Virginia, and an M.S. from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

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A view of apartments in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

How City Leaders in New York Plan to Help Co-Op Buildings Reduce Emissions

By Lauren Dalban

Mamdani on Climate

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TeraWulf plans to convert a retired coal-fired power plant into a data center on the banks of Cayuga Lake in Lansing, N.Y. Credit: Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP via Getty Images

A Data Center Could Be Coming to an Upstate New York Town, and Residents Are Speaking Out

By Lauren Dalban

Climate activists march across the Brooklyn Bridge on Aug. 9 to demand that New York Gov. Kathy Hochul stop the construction of the Williams Northeast Supply Enhancement pipeline. Credit: Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images

A New York Gas Pipeline Is Closer to Construction, Despite Concerns From Lawmakers, Environmentalists

By Lauren Dalban

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaks during his election night watch party at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater on Tuesday in New York City. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

NYC Mayor-Elect Mamdani to Face Pressing Climate, Environment Issues

By Lauren Dalban

A view from a new area of Brooklyn’s Bushwick Inlet Park. Across the inlet, the brown MTA facility marks where property firm Gotham Organization wants to build apartments. Credit: Lauren Dalban/Inside Climate News

New York City Needs More Housing. Should it Come With Promises to Protect Green Space?

By Lauren Dalban

Water pools in the front yard of a house in “The Hole” of New York City. A makeshift bridge has been constructed out of wooden planks. Credit: Lauren Dalban/Inside Climate News

New York City Unveils Plan for Flood-Prone Neighborhood Nicknamed ‘The Hole’

By Lauren Dalban

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks during a press conference at her Manhattan office on Feb. 20 in New York City. Credit: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

Federal Actions Make New York’s Energy Future More Uncertain

By Lauren Dalban

Plastic pellets, known as nurdles, coat the ground at the site of a train derailment near ExxonMobil’s Baytown facility in Texas on Dec. 6, 2024. Credit: Rebekah F. Ward/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Communities Around the World Find Plastic Pellets in Their Local Waterways

By Lauren Dalban

A thick haze blankets New York City as smoke from Canadian wildfires impacts air quality on August 5. Credit: Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images

‘It’s Never Good!’: A Street-Level Look at New York City’s Air Quality

By Lauren Dalban

New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks during a press conference at City Hall on June 26. Credit: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

With a Mayoral Election Coming Up, This Is Where NYC Stands on Climate Action

By Lauren Dalban

The water chestnut, an aquatic invasive species, covers a large portion of Van Cortlandt Park’s large main pond in the Bronx borough of New York City. Credit: Lauren Dalban/Inside Climate News

Mayor Eric Adams’ Unfulfilled Promise for New York City Parks

By Lauren Dalban

Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspectors visit the Nine Mile Point nuclear power plant expansion site in February in Oswego County, N.Y. Credit: Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Department of Energy Announces the Selection of 11 Projects for New Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program

By Lauren Dalban

A man tries to cool off with fire hydrant water in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of Manhattan as extreme heat blankets New York City on July 25. Credit: Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images

Broiled by Heat Waves, Residents of the Concrete Jungle Suffer

By Lauren Dalban

Air conditioning units hang out the windows of a housing project during a summer heat wave in the Bronx borough of New York on July 11, 2024. Credit: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images

New York Can’t Meet Its Ambitious Climate Targets. Maybe the Plan Was Doomed From the Start

By Lauren Dalban

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, speaks to supporters during an election night gathering in Queens. Credit: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

Zohran Mamdani Made Addressing Climate Change Central to His Affordability Plan for New York

By Lauren Dalban

The homepage of globalchange.gov as it appeared early on June 30, archived by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.

An Important Archive of Congressionally-Mandated Climate Change Reports Just Went Dark

By Lauren Dalban

The Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy conducts field work at a pollinator garden in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Credit: Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy

Helping Bees Find New Homes Across New York City, From Fresh Kills to Street Planters

By Lauren Dalban

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