Neela Banerjee
Senior Correspondent, Washington, D.C.
Neela Banerjee is a Washington-based reporter for InsideClimate News. She led the investigation into Exxon’s early climate research, which was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service reporting and the recipient of nearly a dozen other journalism awards. Before joining ICN, she spent four years as the energy and environmental reporter for the Los Angeles Times’ Washington bureau. Banerjee covered global energy, the Iraq War and other issues with The New York Times. She also served as a Moscow correspondent with The Wall Street Journal. Banerjee grew up in southeast Louisiana and graduated from Yale University.
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Climate Change Will Increase Risk of Violent Conflict, Researchers Warn
By Neela Banerjee
Court Sides With Trump on Keystone XL Permit, but Don’t Expect Fast Progress
By Neela Banerjee
Midwest Flooding Exposes Another Oil Pipeline Risk — on Keystone XL’s Route
By Neela Banerjee
How Much Would Trump’s Climate Rule Rollbacks Worsen Health & Emissions?
By Neela Banerjee
With Democrats in Charge, House Science Committee Talks About Climate Science
By Neela Banerjee
U.S. Intelligence Officials Warn Climate Change Is a Worldwide Threat
By Neela Banerjee
Climate Change Is Key Part of Understanding Migration, GAO Tells Trump Administration
By Neela Banerjee
The Farm Bureau: Big Oil’s Unnoticed Ally Fighting Climate Science and Policy
By Neela Banerjee, Georgina Gustin, John H. Cushman Jr.
Dangers Without Borders: Military Readiness in a Warming World
By Neela Banerjee
How the Farm Bureau’s Climate Agenda Is Failing Its Farmers
By Georgina Gustin, John H. Cushman Jr., Neela Banerjee
Spring Is Coming Earlier to Wildlife Refuges, and Migrating Birds Need to Catch Up
By Neela Banerjee
NOAA’s Acting Chief Floated New Mission, Ignoring Climate Change
By Neela Banerjee
Keeping Global Warming to 1.5 Degrees Could Spare Millions Pain of Dengue Fever
By Neela Banerjee
Urgent Climate Action Required to Protect Tens of Thousands of Species Worldwide
By John H. Cushman Jr., Neela Banerjee
Pruitt's EPA Is on the Verge of 'Regulatory Capture', Study Says
By Neela Banerjee
Investigators: We Can’t Tell if Interior Dept. Reassignments Were Legal Due to Lack of Records
By Neela Banerjee
