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.
Senate Democrats Produce a Far-Reaching Climate Bill, But the Price of Compromise with Joe Manchin is Years More Drilling for Oil and Gas
By Marianne Lavelle, Nicholas Kusnetz
Climate Advocates Hoping Biden Would Declare a Climate Emergency Are Disappointed by the Small Steps He Announced on Wednesday
By Marianne Lavelle
Biden Is Losing His Base on Climate Change, a New Pew Poll Finds. Six in 10 Democrats Don’t Feel He’s Doing Enough
By Marianne Lavelle
The Supreme Court’s EPA Ruling: A Loss of Authority for Federal Agencies or a Lesson for Conservatives in ‘Be Careful What You Wish For’?
By Marianne Lavelle
NATO Moves to Tackle Military Greenhouse Gas Emissions Even While Girding Against Russia
By Marianne Lavelle
Biden’s Pick for the EPA’s Top Air Pollution Job Finds Himself Caught in the Crossfire
By Marianne Lavelle
In Pennsylvania’s Primary Election, Little Enthusiasm for the Northeast’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
By Marianne Lavelle
Want to Elect Climate Champions? Here’s How to Tell Who’s Really Serious About Climate Change
By Marianne Lavelle
Russia’s War in Ukraine Reveals a Risk for the EV Future: Price Shocks in Precious Metals
By Marianne Lavelle
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
