About Emily

About Emily, Environmental Journalist

I’m a veteran journalist and author covering the environment from diverse angles including technology, science, politics, policy, international climate negotiations, nature, religion and pop culture.

Currently I’m a contributing editor at DeSmog and The Conversation.

My stories have appeared in Reveal/Center for Investigative Reporting, Scientific American, Popular Science, Grist, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, DWELL, HuffPost, TED Ideas and more.

Reporting has taken me from Arctic towns in Finland and Norway to beach neighborhoods in Staten Island, cattle ranches in Wyoming, and a coal-fired power plant in Kansas. You’ll find those and many other articles from my two-decade journalism career linked to my stories page. Check out the books page to see my book projects.

I’m a co-founder and board member of Women Do News, where we organize edit-a-thons to add more profiles of notable women journalists to Wikipedia.

Here’s my full CV (67kb pdf).

Journalism highlights:

2021-present: Contributing editor at DeSmog and The Conversation.

2020-2021: Senior editor of Drilled News, a spinoff of Amy Westervelt’s Drilled podcast. I edited more than 100 articles, oversaw the redesign and relaunch of the website, and contributed to the Climate & COVID-19 Tracker, which tracked the Trump administration’s rapid pace of climate-related rollbacks, favors to the fossil fuel industry, fast-tracked lease sales, attacks on science and more, taken under cover of the COVID-19 crisis.

2018-2019: Founder and publisher of (de)regulation nation: environmental news in the Trump era, a newsletter covering the Trump administration’s environmental rollbacks and attacks on science. Using an audience-tested and approved “bad, better, good, great” format, I also tracked good news on climate, energy, clear air & water, public lands protection, wildlife conservation and holding the Trump administration to account.

2014-2016: Associate editor for environment and wildlife at TakePart.com. TakePart was the independent online news arm of Participant Media, which shut it down at the end of 2016.

2014: Editor for The Guardian’s Sustainable Business section.

2014: Co-founder, reporter and editor at Bracing for Impact by Flux, a crowdfunded climate reporting project – with Virginia Gewin, Hannah Hoag, Susan Moran, and Sarah Webb.