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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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Activity at a Bakken oil well pad south of Watford City, North Dakota. Credit: William Campbell/Corbis via Getty Images

The $16 Million Was Supposed to Clean Up Old Oil Wells; Instead, It’s Going to Frack New Ones

By Nicholas Kusnetz

President Donald Trump delivers remarks at Double Eagle Energy oil rig in Midland, Texas, on June 29, 2020. Credit: Kyle Mazza/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

The Oil Market May Have Tanked, but Companies Are Still Giving Plenty to Keep Republicans in Office

By Nicholas Kusnetz

An Exxon gas station is pictured in Washington on Thursday, April 9, 2020. Credit: Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Exxon Turns to Academia in an Attempt to Discredit Harvard Research

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Joe Biden (left) conducts a town hall in Philadelphia while President Donald Trump has a similar event in Miami on Oct. 15. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images; Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images

Climate Change Makes a (Very) Brief Appearance in Dueling Town Halls Held by Trump and Biden

By Ilana Cohen, Nicholas Kusnetz

There are over 1,100 producing oil wells in the McKittrick oil field north of McKittrick, California. Credit: Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty

Biden Could Reduce the Nation’s Production of Oil and Gas, but Probably Not as Much as Many Hope

By Nicholas Kusnetz

The Baytown Exxon gas refinery produces the more processed oil than any other facility in the United States on March 23, 2006 in Baytown, TX. (Photo by Benjamin Lowy/Reportage by Getty Images)

Exxon Touts Carbon Capture as a Climate Fix, but Uses It to Maximize Profit and Keep Oil Flowing

By Nicholas Kusnetz

An ExxonMobil sign is seen on a gas station on October 25, 2018 in Gutenberg New Jersey. Credit: Kena Betancur/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images

An Oil Giant’s Wall Street Fall: The World is Sending the Industry Signals, but is Exxon Listening?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

BP. Credit: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

BP Pledges to Cut Oil and Gas Production 40 Percent by 2030, but Some Questions Remain

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Oil companies have lost billions since the coronavirus pandemic began, according to new earnings reports. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Big Oil Took a Big Hit from the Coronavirus, Earnings Reports Show

By Nicholas Kusnetz

OIl rig in sunset. Credit: Michael Kodas/InsideClimate News

What Does Net Zero Emissions Mean for Big Oil? Not What You’d Think

By Nicholas Kusnetz

The global oil and gas industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation and is finally being forced to reckon with a future of dwindling demand for its products, some analysts say. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

BP and Shell Write-Off Billions in Assets, Citing Covid-19 and Climate Change

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Maleta "Queen" Kimmons stands at the North Minneapolis O'Reilly Auto Parts store on Broadway Ave. The store was destroyed during a recent demonstration for George Floyd. Credit: Katie G. Nelson

Across America, Five Communities in Search of Environmental Justice

By David Hasemyer, Ilana Cohen, Judy Fahys, Kristoffer Tigue, Nicholas Kusnetz

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards. Credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Louisiana’s Governor Vetoes Bill That Would Have Imposed Harsh Penalties for Trespassing on Industrial Land

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Courtesy of Sharon Lavigne

In Louisiana, Stepping onto Oil and Gas Industry Land May Soon Get You 3 Years or More in Prison

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Credit: Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Banks’ Vows to Restrict Loans for Arctic Oil and Gas Development May Be Largely Symbolic

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Miles of unused pipe, prepared for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, sit in a lot on Oct. 14, 2014 outside Gascoyne, North Dakota. Credit: Andrew Burton/Getty Images

Alberta’s $5.3 Billion Backing of Keystone XL Signals Vulnerability of Canadian Oil

By Nicholas Kusnetz

EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Trump’s Move to Suspend Enforcement of Environmental Laws is a Lifeline to the Oil Industry

By David Hasemyer, Marianne Lavelle, Nicholas Kusnetz, Phil McKenna

Naomi Seibt. Credit: Samuel Corum/Getty Images

Heartland Launches Website of Contrarian Climate Science Amid Struggles With Funding and Controversy

By Nicholas Kusnetz

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