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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 Growing Movement Looks to End Oil Drilling in the Amazon

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Natural gas pipelines on the edge of a cornfield Oct. 6, 2017 in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Rush to Build Carbon Pipelines Leaps Ahead of Federal Rules and Safety Standards

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm testifies during the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Committee hearing titled Fiscal Year 2024 Request for the Department of Energy, in Rayburn Building on Thursday, March 23, 2023. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Federal Hydrogen Program Is Cutting Out Local Groups, Threatening Climate Goals, Advocates Say

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A woman and her baby stand in a flooded street, in the province of La Union in Piura, northern Peru, on March 25, 2017. Credit: Ernesto Benavides/AFP via Getty Images

Fossil Fuel Companies Should Pay Trillions in ‘Climate Reparations,’ New Study Argues

By Nicholas Kusnetz

President Joe Biden announces plans to curb planet-warming emissions from the nation's power stations, as part of the efforts to combat climate change, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., on May 11, 2023. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

Biden Power Plant Plan Gives Industry Time, Options for Cutting Climate Pollution

By Marianne Lavelle, Nicholas Kusnetz

A rendering of a planned direct air capture plant in Texas that would initially pull 500,000 tons of carbon dioxide out of the air annually. Occidental Petroleum, which is planning to build the plant, would use some or most of the carbon dioxide it captures to pump more oil out of depleted reservoirs. Credit: Carbon Engineering

Carbon Removal Projects Leap Forward With New Offset Deal. Will They Actually Help the Climate?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A protester wearing a mask holds an anti-fossil fuels banner during the demonstration outside the Bank of England. Credit: Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Banks Say They’re Acting on Climate, But Continue to Finance Fossil Fuel Expansion

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Gas is flared as waste from the Monterey Shale formation where gas and oil extraction using fracking on March 22, 2014 near Buttonwillow, California. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Fossil Fuel Executives See a ‘Golden Age’ for Gas, If They Can Brand It as ‘Clean’

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A drill site at Alpine Field in Alaska. Photo Courtesy of ConocoPhillips

Biden Approves ConocoPhillips’ Willow Project to Drill Oil in the Alaskan Arctic

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Chevron CEO Mike Wirth (R) speaks with S&P Global Vice Chairman Daniel Yergin during CERAWeek by S&P Global in Houston, Texas on March 6, 2023. Credit: Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images

At CERAWeek, Big Oil Executives Call for ‘Energy Security’ and Longevity for Fossil Fuels

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Holding a banner opposing the Willow oil project in Alaska, demonstrators gathered on Friday to urge President Biden to reject the proposal. Credit: Aman Azhar/Inside Climate News.

Activists Make Final Appeal to Biden to Block Arctic Oil Project

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Aman Azhar

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

Biden Administration Allows Controversial Arctic Oil Project to Proceed

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Prices for gas at an Exxon gas station on Capitol Hill are seen March 14, 2022 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty

Exxon and Chevron Made Their Highest-Ever Profits in 2022. What Does It Mean for Clean Energy?

By Kristoffer Tigue, Nicholas Kusnetz

A general view of the Costa Sur power plant is seen in Penuelas, Puerto Rico on Jan. 9, 2020, after a powerful earthquake hit the island. Credit: Ricardo Ardungo/AFP via Getty Images

Puerto Rico Hands Control of its Power Plants to a Natural Gas Company

By Nicholas Kusnetz

People take part in a protest against ExxonMobil before the start of its trial outside the New York State Supreme Court building on Oct. 22, 2019 in New York. Credit: Eduardo MunozAlvarez/VIEWpress

Exxon Accurately Predicted Global Warming, Years Before Casting Doubt on Climate Science

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Everett LNG Marine Terminal on Oct. 31, 2022 in Everett, Massachusetts. Credit: Matt Stone/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images

2022 Will Be Remembered as the Year the U.S. Became the World’s Largest Exporter of Liquified Natural Gas

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Environmental activists rally for accountability for fossil fuel companies outside of New York Supreme Court on Oct. 22, 2019 in New York City. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Oil Companies Had a Problem With ExxonMobil’s Industry-Wide Carbon Capture Proposal: Exxon’s Bad Reputation

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Lou Ann Varley looks out across the pond that holds water for the cooling towers at the Jim Bridger coal plant, where she worked for 37 years before retiring in 2020. Credit: Nicholas Kusnetz

Carbon Removal Is Coming to Fossil Fuel Country. Can It Bring Jobs and Climate Action?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

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