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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Panel: EPA's Fracking Finding Misled on Threat to Water
By Neela Banerjee
Colorado Fracking Study Blames Faulty Wells for Water Contamination
By Neela Banerjee
In California, Study Finds Drilling and Fracking into Freshwater Formations
By Neela Banerjee
For Oil Industry, Clean Air Fight Was Dress Rehearsal for Climate Change Denial
By David Hasemyer, Neela Banerjee, Lisa Song
Exxon and Its Allies Invoke First Amendment to Fight Climate Fraud Probes
By Neela Banerjee
CO2's Role in Global Warming Has Been on the Oil Industry's Radar Since the 1960s
By David Hasemyer, John H. Cushman Jr., Neela Banerjee, and Lisa Song
