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Sabrina Shankman

Sabrina Shankman

Reporter, Maine

Sabrina Shankman is a reporter for InsideClimate News focusing on the Arctic. She joined InsideClimate in the fall of 2013, after helping produce documentaries and interactives for the PBS show “Frontline” since 2010 with 2over10 Media. She worked as a co-producer, field producer or associate producer on the Frontline films League of Denial (2013); Money, Power and Wall Street (2012); A Perfect Terrorist (2011); Dr. Hotspots (2011) and Law and Disorder (2010). In 2012, she produced the online interactive A Perfect Terrorist: David Coleman Headley’s Web of Betrayal, which won an Overseas Press Club of America award. She is the author of Meltdown: Terror at the Top of the World. She has also reported for ProPublica, the Wall Street Journal and the Associated Press. Her work has been honored by the Society of Professional Journalists and the Society of Environmental Journalists, and she was named a finalist for the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists in 2010 and again in 2015. Shankman has a Masters in Journalism from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.

An Explosion in Texas Shows the Hidden Dangers of Tanks Holding Heavy Fuels

By Sabrina Shankman, Julia Kane

Noxious Neighbors: The EPA Knows Tanks Holding Heavy Fuels Emit Harmful Chemicals. Why Are Americans Still at Risk?

By Sabrina Shankman, Julia Kane

A handout picture released by the Suez Canal Authority on March 24, 2021 shows a part of the Taiwan-owned MV Ever Given (Evergreen), a 1,300-foot-long vessel, lodged sideways and impeding all traffic across the waterway of Egypt's Suez Canal. Credit: Suez Canal Authority/Handout/AFP via Getty Images

Russia is Turning Ever Given’s Plight into a Marketing Tool for Arctic Shipping. But It May Be a Hard Sell

By Sabrina Shankman

President Joe Biden takes the oath of office during the presidential inauguration on Jan. 20, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

Biden Signs Sweeping Orders to Tackle Climate Change and Rollback Trump’s Anti-Environment Legacy

By Sabrina Shankman, Dan Gearino, David Hasemyer, James Bruggers, Judy Fahys, Marianne Lavelle, Phil McKenna

Sea ice is seen from NASA's Operation IceBridge research aircraft off the northwest coast on March 30, 2017 above Greenland. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

How the Trump Administration’s Climate Denial Left Its Mark on The Arctic Council

By Sabrina Shankman

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

Trump Administration Offers Drilling Leases in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge, but No Major Oil Firms Bid

By Sabrina Shankman

Ellington Tardy, 9, enjoys the playground in his Orchard Valley neighborhood Nov. 5, 2020 in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Credit: Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images

As Biden Eyes a Conservation Plan, Activists Fear Low-Income Communities and People of Color Could Be Left Out

By Sabrina Shankman

A new phone app called "Cranky Uncle" uses a science-denying uncle cartoon character to illustrate different methods of disinformation on science topics like climate change. Credit: Autonomy/John Cook

Warming Trends: The ‘Cranky Uncle’ Game, Good News About Bowheads and Steps to a Speedier Energy Transition

By Kristoffer Tigue, Katelyn Weisbrod, Sabrina Shankman

The Trump administration plans to hold an oil leasing sale for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the final days of the Trump presidency. Credit: Universal Education/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Not Waiting for Public Comment, Trump Administration Schedules Lease Sale for Arctic Wildlife Refuge

By Sabrina Shankman

K.C. Hughes is a lifelong Republican, and one of Maine’s many split-ticket voters. This year, he voted for Republican Sen. Susan Collins and Democrat Joe Biden for president. His business printed 5,000 signs for the Collins campaign. Credit: Sabrina Shank

In Maine, Many Voters Defied the Polls and Split Their Tickets

By Sabrina Shankman

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

Trump's Interior Department Pressures Employees to Approve Seismic Testing in ANWR

By Sabrina Shankman

Orthopedic surgeon Al Gross (left) is running against Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) to represent Alaska in the Senate. Credit: Al Gross; Al Drago-Pool/Getty Images

Senate 2020: In Alaska, a Controversy Over an Embattled Mine Has Tightened the Race

By Sabrina Shankman

Agricultural workers from Bud Farms harvest celery on March 26, 2020 in Oxnard, California. Credit: Brent Stirton/Getty Images

States Are Doing What Big Government Won’t to Stop Climate Change, and Want Stimulus Funds to Help

By Marianne Lavelle, Evelyn Nieves, James Bruggers, Judy Fahys, Sabrina Shankman

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of six major mining and drilling projects the Trump Administration aims to push forward in Alaska. Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/Getty Images

What Has Trump Done to Alaska? Not as Much as He Wanted To

By Sabrina Shankman

National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. Credit: National Park Service

Trump Plan Would Open Huge Area of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve to Drilling

By Sabrina Shankman

Credit: Sabrina Shankman

Fuzzy Math: How Do You Calculate Emissions From a Storage Tank When The Numbers Don’t Add Up?

By Sabrina Shankman

‘Mom, are We Going to Die?’ How to Talk to Kids About Hard Things Like Covid-19 and Climate Change

By Sabrina Shankman

Northern Alaska. Credit: Sabrina Shankman/InsideClimate News

In Alaska’s North, Covid-19 Has Not Stopped the Trump Administration’s Quest to Drill for Oil

By Sabrina Shankman

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