Emily Holden
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About Emily Holden
Emily Holden is an environment reporter for Floodlight, which partners with local journalists and the Guardian to investigate the corporate and ideological interests holding back climate action.
Why won’t this giant oil pipeline reveal its secret insurers?
The expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline will stretch hundreds miles and is fiercely opposed by numerous groups — but despite repeated calls, the Canadian government has not forced the pipeline to reveal its insurers.
U.S. leaves Paris Agreement amid uncalled election
Trump administration set U.S. withdrawal in motion a year ago but it didn’t take effect until Nov. 4.
Americans scramble to adapt to daily reality of climate crisis
Heat and wildfire smoke force residents to seek respite – and buy cooling systems and air purifiers, if they can afford them
Fires burn the west, as top Democrats stay quiet on the climate crisis
Nancy Pelosi has been notably tepid on green legislation – so are the Democrats serious about fighting climate change?
Trump weakens Obama-era rules on toxic wastewater from coal plants
Coal plants generate wastewater that is discharged into rivers and lakes and often ends up in drinking water.
Trump in final push to open up Alaska's Arctic refuge to oil and gas drilling
Interior department to reportedly auction leases before year’s end as critics condemn plan to drill in America’s ‘last great wilderness’
Biden's 2 trillion dollar plan
Proposal outlines $2tn for clean energy infrastructure and climate solutions, to be spent as quickly as possible in next four years.
US lets corporations delay paying environmental fines amid pandemic
Ten companies that allegedly polluted air and water will not be required to pay penalties they agreed to before 1 June
Fossil fuel firms linked to Trump get millions in coronavirus small business aid
Revealed: Oil and mining firms – some with ties to Trump officials – taking advantage of funding, review shows
How the oil industry has spent billions to control the climate change conversation
Activists say Democratic climate proposals won’t be able to pass until lawmakers put a stop to oil companies trying to rebrand themselves