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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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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

President Joe Biden speaks about the Inflation Reduction Act on Sept. 5 in Westby, Wis. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Election Throws Uncertainty Onto Biden’s Signature Climate Law

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Honduras Próspera construyó un edificio de 14 pisos de usos mixtos al pie de una ladera anteriormente arbolada cerca de Crawfish Rock, un pueblo de pescadores de unos cientos de personas en la isla de Roatán. Crédito: Nicholas Kusnetz/Inside Climate News

En Honduras, los Libertarios y las Demandas Judiciales Podrían Quebrar el País

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Katie Surma

Honduran President Xiomara Castro delivers a speech to her supporters during a rally in Tegucigalpa on Sept. 14. Credit: Orlando Sierra/AFP via Getty Images

‘Pure Greed’: A Legal System That Gives Corporations Special Rights Has Come for Honduras

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Katie Surma

Honduras Próspera built a 14-story mixed-use tower perched at the bottom of a once-forested hillside near Crawfish Rock, a fishing village of a few hundred people on the island of Roatán. Credit: Nicholas Kusnetz/Inside Climate News

In Honduras, Libertarians and Legal Claims Threaten to Bankrupt a Nation

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Katie Surma

The Supreme Court is seen on Feb. 21 in Washington, as the court hears arguments challenging the Biden administration's effort to reduce air pollution using the Clean Air Act. Credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Memo to the Supreme Court: Clean Air Act Targeted CO2 as Climate Pollutant, Study Says

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Native Americans, farmers and ranchers gather in front of the U.S. Capitol as the Cowboy and Indian Alliance protest the proposed Keystone XL pipeline on April 22, 2014. Credit: Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images

Should Companies Get Paid When Governments Phase Out Fossil Fuels? They Already Are

By Katie Surma, Nicholas Kusnetz

Nate King (aged 6) and Jeff King (aged 10), the youngest plaintiffs of the case, speak at a press conference held outside the Montana Supreme Court building in Helena on Wednesday. Credit: Najifa Farhat/Inside Climate News

Montana’s High Court Considers a Constitutional Right to a Stable Climate

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Najifa Farhat

Aymara activists opposed to mining operations in Peru's southeastern Puno region organized on May 31, 2011 for a wave of protests against the Canada-based Bear Creek Mining Corporation plans to open a silver mine in the area. Credit: Aizar Raldes/AFP via Getty Images

The International System That Pits Foreign Investors Against Indigenous Communities

By Katie Surma, Nicholas Kusnetz

Work has begun to revitalize the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal in New York’s Sunset Park and turn it into one of the nation’s first ports dedicated to offshore wind development. Credit: Equinor

As New York’s Offshore Wind Work Begins, an Environmental Justice Community Is Waiting to See the Benefits

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Employees work on the production line at Xiaomi's electric vehicle plant on March 25 in Beijing, China. Last year, 37 percent of new cars sold in China were electric and that figure could climb to 45 percent this year. Credit: VCG via Getty Images

EV Sales Are Taking Off. Why Is Oil Demand Still Climbing?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Exxon Mobil Chairman and CEO Darren Woods speaks during the CERAWeek oil summit in Houston, Texas, on March 18. Credit: Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images

Exxon Criticized ICN Stories Publicly, But Privately, Didn’t Dispute The Findings

By Marianne Lavelle, Nicholas Kusnetz

A view of the Phillips 66 Los Angeles Refinery in Wilmington, Calif. According to the Carbon Majors database, 72 percent of global fossil fuel and cement emissions can be traced to 122 producers. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Should Big Oil Be Tried for Homicide?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

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