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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 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. You can reach Nicholas at [email protected].

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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

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

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