Marianne Lavelle
Bureau Chief, Washington, D.C.
Marianne Lavelle is the Washington, D.C. bureau chief 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.
With Only a Week Left in Trump’s Presidency, a Last-Ditch Effort to Block Climate Action and Deny the Science
By Marianne Lavelle
Even With a 50-50 Split, a Biden Administration Senate Could Make Big Strides on Climate
By Marianne Lavelle
Wheeler Announces a New ‘Transparency’ Rule That His Critics Say Is Dangerous to Public Health
By Marianne Lavelle
The Resistance: In the President’s Relentless War on Climate Science, They Fought Back
By Marianne Lavelle
Biden Put Climate at the Heart of His Campaign. Now He’s Delivered Groundbreaking Nominees
By James Bruggers, David Hasemyer, Judy Fahys, Marianne Lavelle
Biden’s Appointment of John Kerry as Climate Envoy Sends a ‘Signal to the World,’ Advocates Say
By Marianne Lavelle
Trump Rolled Back 100+ Environmental Rules. Biden May Focus on Undoing Five of the Biggest Ones
By Marianne Lavelle
Was a Federal Scientist’s Dismissal an 11th-hour Bid to Give Climate Denial Long-Term Legitimacy?
By Marianne Lavelle
A Bipartisan Climate Policy? It Could Happen Under a Biden Administration, Washington Veterans Say
By Marianne Lavelle
From East to West On Election Eve, Climate Change—and its Encroaching Peril—Are On Americans’ Minds
By Marianne Lavelle
When Trump’s EPA Needed a Climate Scientist, They Called on John Christy
By Marianne Lavelle, Inside Climate News, and Dennis Pillion, AL.com
War on NOAA? A Climate Denier’s Arrival Raises Fears the Agency's Climate Mission Is Under Attack
By Marianne Lavelle
Having Rolled Back Obama’s Centerpiece Climate Plan, Trump Defends a Vastly More Limited Approach
By Marianne Lavelle
The Pence-Harris Showdown Came up Well Short of an Actual 'Debate' on Climate Change
By Ilana Cohen, Marianne Lavelle
Trump and Biden Diverged Widely and Wildly During the Debate’s Donnybrook on Climate Change
By Marianne Lavelle
Trump’s Pick for the Supreme Court Could Deepen the Risk for Its Most Crucial Climate Change Ruling
By Marianne Lavelle
