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Nicholas Kusnetz

Reporter, New York City

Nicholas Kusnetz is a reporter for Inside Climate News. Before joining ICN, he worked at the Center for Public Integrity and ProPublica. His work has won numerous awards, including from the Society of Environmental Journalists, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, and has appeared in more than a dozen publications, including The Washington Post, Businessweek, The Nation, Fast Company and The New York Times. Nicholas can be reached on Signal at nkusnetz.15.

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Chairman Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) speaks during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on June 12 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

As GOP Tries to Pass Tax Bill, Senate Includes Billions in Benefits for Oil Industry

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A worker checks solar panels at the Benban Solar Energy Park in Aswan, Egypt, on April 21, 2024. A consortium of Chinese investors helped finance the solar park in 2021 as part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Credit: Ahmed Gomaa/Xinhua via Getty Images

For the First Time, China Invests More in Wind and Solar Than Coal Overseas

By Katie Surma, Georgina Gustin, Nicholas Kusnetz

Members of the FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force search a flood damaged area in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on Oct. 4, 2024 in Asheville, N.C. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

With FEMA Under Fire, Congress Asks Whether Agency Is Ready for Hurricane Season

By Nicholas Kusnetz

An aerial view of a village in the Chiquitania region of Bolivia on Feb. 12. Credit: Rodrigo Urzagasti/AFP via Getty Images

Is Bolivia’s $1.2 Billion Deal to Protect Its Forests a Climate Boon—or a False Solution?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Robert Taylor stands outside his home, which is near a neoprene factory in Reserve, La. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

As Chemical Industry Seeks Exemption From Pollution Limits, Residents See Assault on Their Lives

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A worker at Chevron’s oil refinery on Jan. 26, 2022 in El Segundo, Calif. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

Congress Is Searching for Trillions of Dollars in Cuts. Will the Oil Industry’s Tax Breaks Skate By?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A Native American protestor confronts a private security contractor at a work site for the Dakota Access Pipeline, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, in September 2016. Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

What a $660 Million Verdict Means for Greenpeace and the Environmental Movement

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Gas is burned from a flare stack at the Air Liquide gas plant in Pasadena, Texas. Credit: Kirk Sides/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Congress Set to Vote on Repeal of Biden Administration Climate Regulations

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Demonstrators march to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota on Feb. 22, 2017. Credit: Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images

A Lawsuit Against Greenpeace Is Meant to Bankrupt It and Deter Public Protests, Environmental Groups Warn

By Nicholas Kusnetz

President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office on Feb. 14. Trump was joined by (from left) EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Climate and Environmental Justice Programs Stalled by Trump Freeze, Despite Court Orders

By Marianne Lavelle, Dylan Baddour, Lisa Sorg, Nicholas Kusnetz

Wildfire victims seek services at a FEMA Disaster Recovery Center on Jan. 14 in Pasadena, Calif. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Federal Spending Freeze Could Have Widespread Impact on Environment, Emergency Management

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Mychal Johnson (center), co-founder of South Bronx Unite, speaks about one of the air monitors his group has installed around the New York neighborhood to measure pollution. Credit: Nicholas Kusnetz/Inside Climate News

New York’s Congestion Pricing Could Worsen Traffic in Poor Neighborhoods

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A wind turbine generates electricity at the Block Island Wind Farm off the shores of Rhode Island. Credit: John Moore/Getty Images

Executive Orders on Energy and Climate Have Advocates Across the Nation on Edge

By Dan Gearino, Aman Azhar, Amy Green, Dylan Baddour, Jake Bolster, Keerti Gopal, Kiley Bense, Lauren Dalban, Lisa Sorg, Liza Gross, Marianne Lavelle, Nicholas Kusnetz, Phil McKenna

People do chores near the Rancheria River, which runs adjacent to the Cerrejon coal mine in Colombia. The Swiss mining giant Glencore has filed multiple ISDS claims against Colombia related to its investment in the mine. Credit: Lis Mary Machado/Anadolu via Getty Images

Biden Administration Reaches Deal Limiting Controversial Protections for Multinational Corporations

By Katie Surma, Nicholas Kusnetz

Shop vendors protest a foreign consortium’s sharp increase in water rates in Cochabamba, Bolivia, on Feb. 5, 2000. The city’s water services were privatized in the late 1990s with encouragement from the World Bank. Credit: Gonzalo Espinoza/AFP via Getty Images

Nations Are Exiting a Secretive System That Protects Corporations. One Country’s Story Shows How Hard That Can Be

By Katie Surma, Nicholas Kusnetz

A view of the small Arctic town of Narsaq in southern Greenland, where Greenland Minerals arrived in 2007. Credit: Martin Zwick/REDA/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

How to Buy a Piece of a Lawsuit and Impoverish a Country

By Katie Surma, Nicholas Kusnetz

A view of traffic on California State Route 91 in Yorba Linda on Aug. 28. In its wish list for the incoming Trump administration, API asked to repeal the tailpipe and fuel economy standards for cars and trucks. Credit: Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images

Oil Industry Asks Trump to Repeal Major Climate Policies

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A view of social housing in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea on Nov. 16, 2022. ExxonMobil distributed $189.2 million last year to the Equatorial Guinea government. Credit: Samuel Obiang/AFP via Getty Images

Lifting the Veil on Tens of Billions in Oil Company Payments to Governments

By Nicholas Kusnetz

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