About SolveClimate and Our Staff

Why SolveClimate

SolveClimate provides daily climate news and analysis. We publish our own originally reported features and also a round-up of the day's top headlines called Today'sClimate. Our mission is to help the public hold elected leaders accountable for science-based solutions to the global climate crisis. Since our launch in 2007, we have earned a respected place in the national conversation on climate and energy policy as an independent web site providing accurate news and insightful analysis.

The need for our work has only grown in recent years. As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, we have come to an especially dangerous moment: The climate crisis is coinciding with a crisis in journalism. At the very time a well-informed public is needed to spur elected leaders to action that is truly in the public interest, the nation finds itself lacking in the capacity to appreciate its position of enormous global responsibility.

The politics of special interests are assuring public confusion and the perpetuation of business-as-usual, despite widespread agreement among scientists on the underlying environmental science, the certainty of widespread human suffering if nothing is done, and the economic certainty that inaction is the costliest option of all.

Our reporters bring you the latest news and analysis of events, policies and actions from around the world that are either saving or imperiling both planet and people. We are looking for the big solutions that can have an immediate and measurable impact and the long-term fixes that are charting the course toward a new energy future. We will be keeping a particularly close eye on whether the new U.S. administration under President Barack Obama can turn its promises about building a clean energy economy into effective government solutions.

Staff

David Sassoon, Founder, Publisher & Reporter

Stacy Feldman, Co-Founder & Energy Reporter

Elizabeth McGowan, Washington DC & Elections Correspondent

Freelance

Jacoba Charles, Gulf Oil Disaster Correspondent 

Amy Westervelt, Clean Tech Reporter 

Patricia Kirk, Green Building Reporter 

Matthew Berger, General Assignment Reporter 

Max Ajl, Egypt

Renee Cho, New York

Louise Rubacky, San Rafael

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