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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.

Shipping container trucks sit in traffic in Long Beach, California, at the busiest seaport complex in the nation. on November 29, 2012 in Long Beach, California. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images.

Biden Administration Stops Short of Electric Vehicle Mandates for Trucks

By Marianne Lavelle

A convoy of Russian military vehicles is seen as the vehicles move towards border in Donbas region of eastern Ukraine on Feb. 23, 2022 in Russian border city Rostov. Credit: Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Whatever His Motives, Putin’s War in Ukraine Is Fueled by Oil and Gas

By Marianne Lavelle

Climate activists demonstrate outside as the Supreme Court hears arguments in the case of West Virginia vs. EPA on Monday. Credit: Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for NRDC

Conservative Justices Express Some Support for Limiting Biden’s Ability to Curtail Greenhouse Gas Emissions

By Marianne Lavelle

Climate activists outside the Supreme Court in 2018. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images.

Republicans Seize the ‘Major Questions Doctrine’ to Block Biden’s Climate Agenda

By Marianne Lavelle

Ukrainian Military Forces servicemen of the 92nd mechanized brigade use tanks, self-propelled guns and other armored vehicles to conduct live-fire exercises near the town of Chuguev, in the Kharkiv region, on Feb. 10, 2022. Credit: Sergey Bobok/AFP via Getty Images

How the Ukraine Conflict Looms as a Turning Point in Russia’s Uneasy Energy Relationship with the European Union

By Marianne Lavelle

Pipe systems and shut-off devices are seen at the gas receiving station of the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea pipeline. Credit: Stefan Sauer/picture alliance via Getty Images

How Climate and the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Undergirds the Ukraine-Russia Standoff

By Marianne Lavelle

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during his re-nominations hearing of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill Jan. 11, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

Heading for a Second Term, Fed Chair Jerome Powell Bucks a Global Trend on Climate Change

By Marianne Lavelle

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will oversee $126 billion in spending from President Biden's infrastructure bill, using some of the money to "reconnect" communities of color riven by interstate highways, and to build charging stations for EVs. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Five Climate Moves by the Biden Administration You May Have Missed

By Marianne Lavelle, Nicholas Kusnetz

The Ohio Statehouse is seen on Jan. 16, 2021, in Columbus, Ohio. Credit: Jason Whitman/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Climate Activists and Environmental Justice Advocates Join the Gerrymandering Fight in Ohio and North Carolina

By Marianne Lavelle

A large fracking operation becomes a new part of the horizon with Mount Meeker and Longs Peak looming in the background on December 28, 2017 in Loveland, Colorado. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Biden Promised to Stop Oil Drilling on Public Lands. Is His Failure to Do So a Betrayal or a Smart Political Move?

By Marianne Lavelle

Vasily Ryabinin scales an overlook on the Taimyr Peninsula in June 2020, with the sprawl of the Norilsk Nickel complex visible below. He toured the area with Russian journalists shortly after resigning from his job with Russia's environmental protection agency due to his concern over what he saw as its failure to fully investigate the spill of 6.5 million gallons of diesel fuel into Arctic waterways last year. Credit: Yuri Kozyrev, NOOR

‘A Trash Heap for Our Children’: How Norilsk, in the Russian Arctic, Became One of the Most Polluted Places on Earth

By Marianne Lavelle

Princeton University senior meteorologist Syukuro Suki Manabe departs a press conference after he was awarded a share of the 2021 Nobel Prize in physics at Princeton University on Oct. 5, 2021 in Princeton, New Jersey. Manabe received the prize for his foundational work on climate modeling. Credit: Mark Makela/Getty Images

In a New Policy Statement, the Nation’s Physicists Toughen Their Stance on Climate Change, Stressing Its Reality and Urgency

By Marianne Lavelle

The US Supreme Court is seen in Washington, DC on November 5, 2021. Credit: Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images

Supreme Court’s Unusual Decision to Hear a Coal Case Could Deal President Biden’s Climate Plans Another Setback

By Marianne Lavelle

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson and U.S. President Joe Biden gesture during the World Leaders' Summit "Accelerating Clean Technology Innovation and Deployment" session during the COP26 Climate Conference at the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow, Scotland on November 2, 2021. Credit: Jeff J Mitchell/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

Over 100 Nations at COP26 Pledge to Cut Global Methane Emissions by 30 Percent in Less Than a Decade

By Phil McKenna, Marianne Lavelle

President Joe Biden speaks about his administration's social spending plans, as US Vice President Kamala Harris look on, from the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on Oct. 28, 2021. Biden set out details of a revamped $1.75 trillion social spending package Thursday to structure a more equitable economy and tackle climate change, the culmination of weeks of intense negotiation. Credit: Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images

Biden Heads for Glasgow Climate Talks with High Ambitions, but Minus the Full Slate of Climate Policies He’d Hoped

By Marianne Lavelle

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) leaves a closed hearing of Senate Armed Services Committee Sept. 14, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images

In the Democrats’ Budget Package, a Billion Tons of Carbon Cuts at Stake

By Marianne Lavelle

September 2, 2021. Credit: Branden Eastwood / AFP) (Photo by BRANDEN EASTWOOD/AFP via Getty Images

Will a Summer of Climate Crises Lead to Climate Action? It’s Not Looking Good

By Marianne Lavelle

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) arrives at the Capitol Building on Aug. 4, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

The Senate’s Two-Track Approach Reveals Little Bipartisanship, and a Fragile Democratic Consensus on Climate

By Marianne Lavelle

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