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Ashley Braun

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Ashley Braun is Senior Editor at DeSmog, leading its U.S. coverage and focusing on the oil and gas industry, disinformation, and climate crisis denial. She’s also an award-winning freelance science and environmental journalist and fact-checker. Her work has been published in outlets including Smithsonian, Audubon, and The Atlantic. Sheโ€™s based in Seattle.

Follow her on Bluesky at @ashleybraun.bsky.social and Twitter at @ashleybraun.

us/Photos: 2024 Was the LNG Export Boomโ€™s Wild Year
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DeSmog reflects on some of the major moments in U.S. LNG policy, the courts, and protest in a turbulent year for this fossil fuel.

DeSmog reflects on some of the major moments in U.S. LNG policy, the courts, and protest in a turbulent year for this fossil fuel.
us/Alaska Drilling Project Squashed By Court Decision Was Touted By Oil-Friendly Former Trump Official
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This week, a federal court overturned the Trump administrationโ€™s approval for what would have been Alaskaโ€™s first drilling project in federal waters, citing faulty analyses of how the Arctic oil an...
Enduring the Climate and Coronavirus Crises: What Will It Take to Get Through Both?
ByAshley Braun
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This story is a part of Covering Climate Nowโ€™s week of coverage focused on Climate Solutions, to mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Covering Climate Now is a global journalism collaboration co...
Why DeSmog Is Joining a Global News Collaboration to โ€˜Cover Climate Nowโ€™
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It may come as something of a surprise to regular readers of DeSmog that we are joining more than 250 other news outlets in a global collaboration called โ€œCovering Climate Now,โ€ led by The Nation a...
us/An Illustrated History of What Big Oil Knew About Climate Changeโ€”Before the Moon Landing
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By now, itโ€™s no secret that oil companies have been long aware of the risks of climate change from burning fossil fuels. Exxon had โ€œno doubtโ€ that carbon dioxide was a global threat by the late 197...
us/Climate Misinformation Researchers Throw Support Behind California Communities Suing Fossil Fuel Companies
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Just in case fossil fuel companies had forgotten when and how much they knew about the impacts their products have had on the climate, a reminder came at them in court thisย week. On January 29, si...
us/A Witness to the Disappearing Wonder of Wild Orcas
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I never thought Iโ€™d live to see an orca in the wild, a sobering prospect for someone in her 30s living in the Pacific Northwest. Or rather, I never thought the orcas would live long enough for me t...
us/Despite Trump, More Signs Coal Powerโ€™s Future Actually Looks Terrible in the US
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In August, President Donald Trump told a rally in West Virginia: โ€œWe are back. The coal industry is back.โ€ And to be sure, Trump keeps trying to revive the dying U.S. industry by doing things like ...
us/News Not to Miss: Oil Train Spill, China Petrochemical Deal, Methane Leaks
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It's hard to keep up with the flood of news these days. Here's your weekly round-up of news not to miss fromย DeSmog. Justin Mikulka has been on the oil train beat for years. He'sย documented how th...
us/Rick Perry Resorts to Subsidizing Coal With Measures Used in Wartime and Natural Disasters
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Under the purported banner of national security,ย Energy Secretary Rick Perry appears again to have heeded the self-described โ€œdesperateโ€ calls of coal baron Robert Murray in order to prop up dying ...