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Marianne Lavelle

Reporter, Washington, D.C.

Marianne Lavelle is a reporter for Inside Climate News. She has covered environment, science, law, and business in Washington, D.C. for more than two decades. She has won the Polk Award, the Investigative Editors and Reporters Award, and numerous other honors. Lavelle spent four years as online energy news editor and writer at National Geographic. She spearheaded a project on climate lobbying for the nonprofit journalism organization, the Center for Public Integrity. She also has worked at U.S. News and World Report magazine and The National Law Journal. While there, she led the award-winning 1992 investigation, “Unequal Protection,” on the disparity in environmental law enforcement against polluters in minority and white communities. Lavelle received her master’s degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and is a graduate of Villanova University.

This clear-cutting in March in Hoosier National Forest, captured by drone, is taking place in Crawford County in southern Indiana, just south of an even larger project the Forest Service is planning in an area it calls Buffalo Springs. Photo courtesy of Robbie Heinrich

Log and Burn, or Leave Alone? Indiana Residents Fight US Forest Service Over the Future of Hoosier National Forest

By Marianne Lavelle

President Joe Biden announces plans to curb planet-warming emissions from the nation's power stations, as part of the efforts to combat climate change, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., on May 11, 2023. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

Biden Power Plant Plan Gives Industry Time, Options for Cutting Climate Pollution

By Marianne Lavelle, Nicholas Kusnetz

In a file photo, John Podesta, who became President Joe Biden's chief climate advisor earlier this year. He previously served as chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and counselor in President Barack Obama's White House. Credit: David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images.

Biden’s Top Climate Adviser Signals Support for Permitting Deal with Fossil Fuel Advocates

By Marianne Lavelle

A recently logged patch of woods on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest in Chatham, New Hampshire. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

Most Federal Forest is Mature and Old Growth. Now the Question Is Whether to Protect It

By Marianne Lavelle

Jason Grumet, President at the Bipartisan Policy Center, testifies during a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on Wednesday, July 1, 2020. Credit: Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Washington’s Biggest Clean Energy Lobbying Group Pushes Natural Gas-Friendly Policy

By Marianne Lavelle

An electric car charges at a mall parking lot on June 27, 2022 in Corte Madera, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

New US Car and Truck Emissions Standards Will Make or Break Biden’s Climate Legacy

By Marianne Lavelle

Custer Gallatin National Forest includes hundreds of glaciers as well as pine savannas. The Forest Service plans logging about 90 miles south of Fairy Lake in the Bridger Mountains, pictured. Credit: Don and Melinda Crawford/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Logging Plan on Yellowstone’s Border Shows Limits of Biden Greenhouse Gas Policy

By Marianne Lavelle

Timm Martin points out areas that are part of the Jellico Vegetation Management proposal to clear cut and log on 10.000 acres inside the Daniel Boone National Forest. Credit: Jared Hamilton

Kentucky Residents Angered by US Forest Service Logging Plan That Targets Mature Trees

By Marianne Lavelle

Ranking member Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., right, greets a fellow representative, on Dec. 13, 2022. McHenry is expected to head the Committee on Financial Services in the next Congress. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Republicans Are Primed to Take on ‘Woke Capitalism’ in 2023, with Climate Disclosure Rules for Corporations in Their Sights

By Marianne Lavelle

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories Director Dr. Kim Budil holds a news conference at the Department of Energy headquarters to announce a breakthrough in fusion research on Dec. 13, 2022 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

The Energy Department Hails a Breakthrough in Fusion Energy, Achieving a Net Energy Gain With Livermore’s Vast Laser Array

By Marianne Lavelle

The area impacted by the Keystone pipeline rupture and subsequent oil discharge into Mill Creek near Washington, Kansas. Credit: U.S. EPA

Manchin’s Permitting Reform Could Lead to More Oil Spills Like Keystone’s, Safety Experts Warn

By Kristoffer Tigue, Marianne Lavelle

Views of a radically altered natural environment in southern West Virginia due to extensive mountain top removal coal mining and logging. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

Soaring West Virginia Electricity Prices Trigger Standoff Over the State’s Devotion to Coal Power

By Marianne Lavelle

U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) speaks at a House Republican news conference on energy policy at the U.S. Capitol on March 8, 2022 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Weak GOP Performance in Midterms Blunts Possible Attacks on Biden Climate Agenda, Observers Say

By Marianne Lavelle

In this photo illustration, a woman holds a smartphone with the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27 logo in the background. The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27 event will take place Nov. 6 through 18, 2022, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

The US May Have Scored a Climate Victory in Congress, but It Will Be in the Hot Seat With Other Major Emitters at UN Climate Talks

By Marianne Lavelle

Power lines along Ruland Road in Melville, New York on Feb. 13, 2020. Credit: Steve Pfost/Newsday RM via Getty Images

The New US Climate Law Will Reduce Carbon Emissions and Make Electricity Less Expensive, Economists Say

By Marianne Lavelle

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) speaks during a rally to highlight the efforts of Congressional Democrats to legislate against climate change outside the U.S. Capitol in October 2021. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.

After 25 Years of Futility, Democrats Finally Jettison Carbon Pricing in Favor of Incentives to Counter Climate Change

By Marianne Lavelle

At least three separate analyses by think tanks and academic institutions agree that the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 would cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions some 40 percent by 2030

Deep in the Democrats’ Climate Bill, Analysts See More Wins for Clean Energy Than Gifts for Fossil Fuel Business

By Marianne Lavelle, Dan Gearino, Georgina Gustin, Phil McKenna

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) speaks to reporters before a hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on July 19, 2022 in Washington, DC. Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Senate Democrats Produce a Far-Reaching Climate Bill, But the Price of Compromise with Joe Manchin is Years More Drilling for Oil and Gas

By Marianne Lavelle, Nicholas Kusnetz

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