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.
Trump’s Environmental Rollbacks Put Thousands of Lives at Risk, Harvard Analysis Finds
By Marianne Lavelle
GOP Congressmen Launch ‘Foreign Agent’ Probe Over NRDC’s China Program
By Marianne Lavelle
In Rebuke to Pruitt, EPA Science Board Votes to Review Climate Policy Changes
By Marianne Lavelle
Pruitt’s Defense Fund Draws Ethics Complaint: Critics Call It His ‘Tip Jar’
By Marianne Lavelle
Pruitt’s Anti-Climate Agenda Is Facing New Challenge From Science Advisers
By Marianne Lavelle
Pruitt’s Own Appointed Scientists Challenge 'Secret Science' Rule
By Marianne Lavelle
In Shadow of Trump's New Foreign Policy Team, Climate Negotiators Walk a Fine Line
By Marianne Lavelle
Pruitt's Friends Became Lobbyists, Then Handed Their Clients an EPA Biomass Win
By Marianne Lavelle
The Former Coal Lobbyist Who's #2 at EPA, Just Behind Pruitt
By Marianne Lavelle
Why Weakening Fuel Efficiency Standards Could Be Trump's Most Climate-Damaging Move Yet
By John H. Cushman Jr., Marianne Lavelle
$1.3 Trillion Omnibus Spending Bill Passes After GOP Drops Anti-Environment Riders
By Marianne Lavelle
How Pruitt’s New ‘Secret Science’ Policy Could Undermine Air Pollution Rules
By Marianne Lavelle
How Pruitt's EPA Is Delaying, Weakening and Repealing Clean Air Rules
By Marianne Lavelle
Trump EPA Sued Over Refusal to Release Heartland Institute Communications
By Marianne Lavelle
Mike Pompeo, Climate Policy Foe, Picked to Replace Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State
By Marianne Lavelle
GOP Pushes 80 Anti-Environment Riders, Dark Money Rule Changes in Spending Bill
By Marianne Lavelle
