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Neela Banerjee

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.
You can reach her by email at neela.banerjee@insideclimatenews.org. For encrypted communication, use neela_banerjee@protonmail.com.
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Brian Latkanich stands in his yard with the fracking well behind him. Credit: Anna Belle Peevey

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By John H. Cushman Jr., Marianne Lavelle, Neela Banerjee

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The EPA Once Said Fracking Did Not Cause Widespread Water Pollution. Not Anymore

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Climate change tar sands Exxon climate investigation

With Oil Sands Ambitions on a Collision Course With Climate Change, Exxon Still Stepping on the Gas

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Neela Banerjee, and Lisa Song

Trump's EPA Pick: A Climate Denialist With Disdain for the Agency He'll Helm

By Marianne Lavelle, Neela Banerjee

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