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.
Michael Mann’s $1 Million Defamation Verdict Resonates in a Still-Contentious Climate Science World
By Marianne Lavelle
Michael Mann’s Defamation Case Against Deniers Finally Reaches Trial
By Marianne Lavelle
Supreme Court Weighs Overturning a Pillar of Federal Regulatory Law
By Marianne Lavelle
American Petroleum Institute Plans Election-Year Blitz in the Face of Climate Policy Pressure
By Marianne Lavelle
Biden Administration Takes Historic Step to Protect Old-Growth Forest
By Marianne Lavelle
Longleaf Pine Restoration—a Major Climate Effort in the South—Curbs Its Ambitions to Meet Harsh Realities
By Marianne Lavelle, and Sarah Whites-Koditschek and Dennis Pillion of AL.com
The U.S. May Not Have Won Over Critics in Dubai, But the Biden Administration Helped Keep the Process Alive
By Marianne Lavelle
Older Voters Are Second Only to Young People in Share of ‘Climate Voters,’ New Study Shows
By Marianne Lavelle
At COP28, the United States Will Stress an End to Fossil Emissions, Not Fuels
By Marianne Lavelle
Report Charts Climate Change’s Growing Impact in the US, While Stressing Benefits of Action
By Marianne Lavelle, Katie Surma, Kiley Price, Nicholas Kusnetz
Rubio Takes Aim at Biden’s Energy Efficiency Move, Using Military Budget Rider
By Marianne Lavelle
Biden Finds Funds to Launch an ‘American Climate Corps’ With Existing Authority Congress Has Given to Agencies
By Marianne Lavelle
Wyoming Could Gain the Most from Federal Climate Funding, But Obstacles Are Many
By Marianne Lavelle
Foes of Biden’s Climate Plan Sought a ‘New Solyndra,’ but They Have yet to Dig Up Scandal
By Marianne Lavelle
Birmingham Public Transit Inches Forward With Federal Help, and No State Funding
By Marianne Lavelle
Log and Burn, or Leave Alone? Indiana Residents Fight US Forest Service Over the Future of Hoosier National Forest
By Marianne Lavelle
