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ICN reporter Marianne Lavelle

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.

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John McCain. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

John McCain's Climate Change Legacy

By Marianne Lavelle

Andrew Wheeler, acting head of the EPA and a former coal lobbyist, will decide on a proposed rule that could block EPA's use of studies on health and pollution. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images

Health and Science Leaders Lay Out Evidence Against EPA's 'Secret Science' Rule

By Marianne Lavelle

Climate Change Denialists Never Had It So Good. So Why the Angst?

By Marianne Lavelle

The Trump administration's proposal to freeze automotive efficiency standards at 2020 levels would effectively abandon the decades-long push to cut carbon emissions from this sector.

Trump’s Auto Efficiency Rollback: Losing the Climate Fight, One MPG at a Time

By Marianne Lavelle

Trump's Science Adviser Pick: Extreme Weather Expert With Climate Credentials

By Marianne Lavelle

Republican Reps. Steve Scalise of Louisiana (center), and Carlos Curbelo of Florida (right) have different views on a carbon tax. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

House Votes to Denounce Carbon Taxes. Where Was the Climate Solutions Caucus?

By Marianne Lavelle

Andrew Wheeler, who becomes acting EPA administrator, is sworn in as deputy administrator by then-EPA head Scott Pruitt. Credit: EPA

6 Ways Andrew Wheeler Could Reshape Climate Policy at EPA

By Marianne Lavelle

Scott Pruitt, EPA administrator under President Trump. Credit: Justin Merriman/Getty Images

EPA's Scott Pruitt Resigns Amid Scandals, Ex-Coal Lobbyist to Take Over

By Marianne Lavelle

HFCs, used in cooling and refrigeration, are short-lived climate pollutants. Credit: Justin Sullivan

11 States Sue Scott Pruitt Over HFCs, Climate Super-Pollutants

By Marianne Lavelle

Climate Matters provides graphics and research for meteorologists to help them explain climate change. Credit: Climate Central

Fossil Fuel Allies in Congress Target Meteorologists' Climate Science Training

By Marianne Lavelle

The greatest number of health impacts are linked to one deregulatory move that would open a loophole for more truck pollution. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Trump’s Environmental Rollbacks Put Thousands of Lives at Risk, Harvard Analysis Finds

By Marianne Lavelle

Rep. Rob Bishop, a Republican from Utah, informed NRDC he would use his congressional committee to investigate the environmental non-profit. NRDC works in several countries to reduce pollution, fossil fuel use and carbon emissions that affect lives around

GOP Congressmen Launch ‘Foreign Agent’ Probe Over NRDC’s China Program

By Marianne Lavelle

EPA headquarters. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

In Rebuke to Pruitt, EPA Science Board Votes to Review Climate Policy Changes

By Marianne Lavelle

Scott Pruitt, EPA administrator under President Trump. Credit: Alex Edelman/Getty Images

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 Major Scientific Review Board

Pruitt’s Anti-Climate Agenda Is Facing New Challenge From Science Advisers

By Marianne Lavelle

Pruitt’s Own Scientist Appointees Condemn EPA ‘Secret Science’ Policy

Pruitt’s Own Appointed Scientists Challenge 'Secret Science' Rule

By Marianne Lavelle

UN climate negotiations in Bonn, May 2018. Credit: UN Climate Change

In Shadow of Trump's New Foreign Policy Team, Climate Negotiators Walk a Fine Line

By Marianne Lavelle

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt flew to a Georgia school to announce that the EPA will now consider the burning of biomass, such as wood, to be carbon neutral. Credit: EPA

Pruitt's Friends Became Lobbyists, Then Handed Their Clients an EPA Biomass Win

By Marianne Lavelle

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