''Inside Climate News'' is a

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news organization, focusing on

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about the

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. The publication conducts

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, climate misinformation, and environmental injustice.About Inside Climate News
Inside Climate News. Retrieved October 7, 2024. Established in 2007, the

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–based organization won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting on the Kalamazoo River oil spill in Michigan in 2013. In 2018, Inside Climate News launched the ICN Local initiative to support local environmental journalism in over a dozen states.

History

The website was co-founded in 2007 by publisher David Sassoon and executive editor Stacy Feldman. Originally called ''SolveClimate News'', it adopted its current name "to counter the perception that it was an environmental advocacy organization." As a non-profit journalism outlet, ''Inside Climate News''s model is similar to that of

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and the

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, which have similarly gained recognition. Like the other two organizations, ''Inside Climate News'' publishes its content for free on the

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, collaborates with for-profit news organizations that republish some of the nonprofit's work with credit, and aims "to tackle topics that bigger, better-known news organizations are not equipped or inclined to do." As of October 2024, Inside Climate News had a staff of 37, including 22 full-time reporters.

Awards

Three ''Inside Climate News'' reporters— Elizabeth McGowan, Lisa Song, and David Hasemyer—won the 2013

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for their series of "rigorous reports" on the Kalamazoo River oil spill in

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, in which an

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spill led to the costliest onshore oil spill in American history.The 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners: National Reporting
The Pulitzer Prizes. With short biographies, reprints of 11 works (''InsideClimate News'' stories June 26 to December 27, 2012), and formal entry for the prize. The Pulitzer citation praised the reporters for exporting the aftermath of the 2010 to 2012 oil spill and "flawed regulation of the nation's oil pipelines, focusing on potential ecological dangers posed by diluted bitumen (or 'dilbit'), a controversial form of oil."Haughney, Christine (April 16, 2013)
Times Wins Four Pulitzers; Brooklyn Nonprofit Is Awarded a Reporting Prize
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'', p. A19. In April 2016, ''Inside Climate News'' was named a finalist for the

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, for the 2015 ''Exxon: The Road Not Taken'' series. ''Inside Climate News'' was awarded a 2015

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for excellence in journalism by the

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for the informational graphics in the ''Exxon: The Road Not Taken'' series, which "provide a visual timeline of Exxon's views and efforts on climate change since the 1970s, and evidence of its uncertainty campaigns in the 1990s and 2000s." The

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awarded ''Inside Climate News'' a share in the 2016 Edgar A. Poe Award, which annually honors "excellence in news coverage of subjects and events of significant national or regional importance, written with fairness and objectivity," for the ''Exxon: The Road Not Taken'' series. In 2017, ''Inside Climate News'' journalist Marianne Lavelle was recognized with a SEAL Environmental Journalism Award for consistent excellence in investigation and reporting.

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