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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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Ricky Jordan inspects an abandoned well with a temporary cap in the backyard of a home on March 8, 2023 in Oil City, La. Credit: Cooper Neill/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Companies Are Poised to Inject Millions of Tons of Carbon Underground. Will It Stay Put?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

The Maya Forest Corridor is a 2.5 mile-wide stretch of forest, wetlands and savanna that connects the jungles of southern Belize with forests in the north and in Guatemala and Mexico. Together, this Selva Maya is the largest tropical forest north of the Amazon. Credit: Kevin Quischan

Can Carbon Offsets Save a Fragile Band of Belize’s Tropical Rainforest?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Carbon dioxide pipelines transport CO2 captured from ethanol processing plants like this one in Menlo, Iowa. Credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Just How Much Money Do CO2 Pipeline Companies Stand to Make From the Inflation Reduction Act?

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Kristoffer Tigue

Fossil Free Divest NY, in coordination with community members, rally outside the office of the New York State Comptroller in New York City on May 14, 2018. Credit: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images

New York State Restricts Investments in ExxonMobil, But Falls Short of Divestment

By Nicholas Kusnetz

New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, manager of the state’s Common Retirement Fund, speaks after successful re-election in New York City on Nov. 9, 2022. Credit: Lev Radin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Will New York State Divest From Big Oil?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A tar sands mining operation near Fort McKay, Alberta. Credit: Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images

Canada’s Tar Sands Are a Much Larger Source of Air Pollution Than Previously Thought, Study Says

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Anival Tanguila, a Quichua leader from the Corazón del Oriente Community, stands next to decommissioned Perenco oil infrastructure in the Ecuadorian Amazon on March 22, 2023. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News

How Wealthy Corporations Use Investment Agreements to Extract Millions From Developing Countries

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Katie Surma

Activists protest against fossil fuels on the sidelines of the COP28 United Nations climate summit in Dubai on Tuesday. Credit: Karim Sahib/AFP via Getty Images)

Q&A: How a Fossil Fuel Treaty Could Support the Paris Agreement and Wind Down Production

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Plug Power's plant under construction at the Science, Technology and Advanced Manufacturing Park, or STAMP, in Genesee County, New York. Credit: Photo courtesy of the Genesee County Economic Development Center

As New York Officials Push Clean Hydrogen Project, Indigenous Nation Sees a Threat to Its Land

By Nicholas Kusnetz

President Joe Biden on "Investing in America" tour

Q&A: The Hopes—and Challenges—for Blue and Green Hydrogen

By Nicholas Kusnetz

People walk along the beach looking at property damaged by Hurricane Ian on September 29, 2022 in Bonita Springs, Florida. The storm made a U.S. landfall on Cayo Costa, Florida, and brought high winds, storm surges, and rain to the area causing severe damage. Credit: Sean Rayford/Getty Images

Report Charts Climate Change’s Growing Impact in the US, While Stressing Benefits of Action

By Marianne Lavelle, Katie Surma, Kiley Price, Nicholas Kusnetz

Construction cranes stand silhouetted by the sunset at the Golden Pass LNG Terminal in Sabine Pass, Texas, in April 2022. Golden Pass LNG, a joint venture between ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum, began as an import terminal and construction seen today will create export capability. Credit: The Washington Post via Getty Images

Planned Fossil Fuel Production Vastly Exceeds the World’s Climate Goals, ‘Throwing Humanity’s Future Into Question’

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A rainbow touches down on the Kokalik River, in northwestern Alaska, winds its way through the National Petroleum Reserve. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

Is ConocoPhillips Looking to Expand its Controversial Arctic Oil Project?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Aerial view of Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo. The country is currently facing claims through the investor-state dispute settlements process, or ISDS, from three foreign mining companies seeking more than $30 billion, twice its gross domestic product.Credit: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

A Shadowy Corner of International Law Is Threatening Climate Action, U.N. Expert Warns

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Katie Surma

In Fridley, Minnesota, President Joe Biden in April visited the Cummins Power Generation Facility, the first electrolyzer manufacturing facility in the United States. Electrolyzers use an electric current to separate water into oxygen and hydrogen. Credit: Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via Getty Images.

Biden Announces Huge Hydrogen Investment. How Much Will It Help The Climate?

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Jon Hurdle

A woman in Kenya tips a container to drain water into a smaller vessel in the village of Yaa Galbo. Water trucks periodically supply remote villages if wells and boreholes go dry. Credit: Larry C. Price

The Era of Climate Migration Is Here, Leaders of Vulnerable Nations Say

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A coal-burning energy plant, as seen through cloud cover near Bismarck, North Dakota. Credit: Andrew Burton/Getty Images.

Errors In a Federal Carbon Capture Analysis Are a Warning for Clean Energy Spending, Former Official Says

By Nicholas Kusnetz

In Brighton, Colorado, a lab at Global Thermostats' commercial-scale direct air carbon capture facility. The facility pulls in air and collects carbon dioxide to store or to use for industrial purposes to help address climate change. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images.

Is Carbon Capture and Storage a Climate Solution?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

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