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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Emails Reveal Pruitt Was Closely Involved in Scrubbing EPA Climate Websites
By Neela Banerjee
How Federal Giveaways to Big Coal Leave Ranchers and Taxpayers Out in the Cold
By Neela Banerjee, Robert McClure
How Big Oil Lost Control of Its Climate Misinformation Machine
By Neela Banerjee
Science Teachers Respond to Climate Materials Sent by Heartland Institute
By Jessica Lee, Neela Banerjee
Appeals Court Takes Up Youth Climate Change Lawsuit Against Trump
By Neela Banerjee
Industrial Strength: How the U.S. Government Hid Fracking's Risks to Drinking Water
By Neela Banerjee
Oil Subsidies Ensure Profit for Nearly Half New U.S. Investments, Study Shows
By Neela Banerjee
Trial Date Set for Children’s Climate Lawsuit Against U.S. Government
By Neela Banerjee
Fighting Climate Change Can Be a Lonely Battle in Oil Country, Especially for a Kid
By Neela Banerjee, Zahra Hirji
Fossil Fuel Groups Want Out of Children’s Climate Change Lawsuit
By Neela Banerjee
EPA Veterans Mobilize to Defend Agency's Work, Bracing for Trump's Impact
By Neela Banerjee
Russia and the U.S.: Partners in Climate Change Inaction?
By Neela Banerjee
Tillerson Hedges on Climate Science, but Would Not Abandon Paris Agreement
By John H. Cushman Jr., Marianne Lavelle, Neela Banerjee
Rex Tillerson's Record on Climate Change: Rhetoric vs. Reality
By Neela Banerjee
The EPA Once Said Fracking Did Not Cause Widespread Water Pollution. Not Anymore
By Neela Banerjee
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
