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.
Biden Administration Stops Short of Electric Vehicle Mandates for Trucks
By Marianne Lavelle
Whatever His Motives, Putin’s War in Ukraine Is Fueled by Oil and Gas
By Marianne Lavelle
Conservative Justices Express Some Support for Limiting Biden’s Ability to Curtail Greenhouse Gas Emissions
By Marianne Lavelle
Republicans Seize the ‘Major Questions Doctrine’ to Block Biden’s Climate Agenda
By Marianne Lavelle
How the Ukraine Conflict Looms as a Turning Point in Russia’s Uneasy Energy Relationship with the European Union
By Marianne Lavelle
How Climate and the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Undergirds the Ukraine-Russia Standoff
By Marianne Lavelle
Heading for a Second Term, Fed Chair Jerome Powell Bucks a Global Trend on Climate Change
By Marianne Lavelle
Five Climate Moves by the Biden Administration You May Have Missed
By Marianne Lavelle, Nicholas Kusnetz
Climate Activists and Environmental Justice Advocates Join the Gerrymandering Fight in Ohio and North Carolina
By Marianne Lavelle
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
‘A Trash Heap for Our Children’: How Norilsk, in the Russian Arctic, Became One of the Most Polluted Places on Earth
By Marianne Lavelle
In a New Policy Statement, the Nation’s Physicists Toughen Their Stance on Climate Change, Stressing Its Reality and Urgency
By Marianne Lavelle
Supreme Court’s Unusual Decision to Hear a Coal Case Could Deal President Biden’s Climate Plans Another Setback
By Marianne Lavelle
Over 100 Nations at COP26 Pledge to Cut Global Methane Emissions by 30 Percent in Less Than a Decade
By Phil McKenna, Marianne Lavelle
Biden Heads for Glasgow Climate Talks with High Ambitions, but Minus the Full Slate of Climate Policies He’d Hoped
By Marianne Lavelle
In the Democrats’ Budget Package, a Billion Tons of Carbon Cuts at Stake
By Marianne Lavelle
