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Ashley Braun

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Ashley Braun is Senior Editor of DeSmog. She is an award-winning freelance science and environmental journalist who has written for publications including Smithsonian Magazine, The Atlantic, Slate, Science, Scientific American, Discover, bioGraphic, Hakai Magazine, and Audubon. She also fact-checks for publications such as Science News and The New York Times. Ashley is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and National Association of Science Writers and is the former president of the Northwest Science Writers Association.

Find more of her writing at ashleybraun.com/writing and follow her on Bluesky at @ashleybraun.bsky.social or Twitter at @ashleybraun.

us/TigerSwan Employee Applied for Security License in Louisiana Without Disclosing Ties — After Firm’s Attempt Was Denied
ByAshley Braun
onMar 30, 2018 @ 09:24 PDT

The private security firm TigerSwan, known for its controversial military-style tactics against Dakota Access pipeline protesters, is appealing the decision to deny its application for a license to...
Series: Conflict in Cajun Country: Will the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Become Louisiana's Standing Rock?
Series: Bayou Bridge Pipeline Battle
us/Nations Won’t Reach Paris Climate Goal Without Protecting Wildlife and Nature, Warns Report
ByAshley Braun
onMar 23, 2018 @ 18:20 PDT

A sweeping new report released today emphasizes just how intertwined the challenges of climate change and loss of biodiversity truly are. The Paris Climate Agreement and several other United Natio...
us/In Trump's First Year, EPA Is Fining Polluters 49 Percent Less
ByAshley Braun
onFeb 15, 2018 @ 12:29 PST

The first year of Donald Trump’s presidency has seen a measurable difference in the way the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been holding polluters accountable compared to the past 25...
us/Here's the Teacher-Friendly Antidote to Heartland Institute's Anti-Science School 'Propaganda'
ByAshley Braun
onNov 26, 2017 @ 06:57 PST

On a Monday morning at the end of October, Rob Ross asked a group of earth scientists and educators a question: How many of them had received copies of the Heartland Institute book Why Scientists D...
us/Despite Trump Plan to Ditch Paris Accord, Former US Climate Envoy Thinks America Will Be Back
ByAshley Braun
onNov 16, 2017 @ 12:11 PST

BONN, GERMANY – Even if Donald Trump successfully withdraws the U.S. from the Paris climate accord in the next three years, Todd Stern, former climate envoy under Obama, doesn’t think the country w...
us/State Leaders Diss Trump Coal Revival as US Pushes 'Cleaner' Fossil Fuels at Climate Talks
ByAshley Braun
onNov 13, 2017 @ 18:42 PST

BONN, GERMANY – From the United Nations climate summit in Bonn, Germany, Arnold Schwarzenegger declared he wasn’t worried about Donald Trump — not his threats to withdraw from the Paris agreement o...
us/Meeting Paris Goals Means Dealing with Climate Impacts of Eating Meat
ByAshley Braun
onAug 31, 2017 @ 18:41 PDT

Environmental groups place a lot of attention on trying to stop new oil, gas, and coal development since current fossil fuel projects would likely already blow us past the less-than 2°C upper limit...
us/Tillerson Scraps US Climate Envoy Position Ahead of UN Talks
ByAshley Braun
onAug 30, 2017 @ 13:48 PDT

With the next round of United Nations climate talks scheduled for November, eyes will be trained on how the United States chooses to engage — or not — now that President Donald Trump is withdrawing...
us/In First 6 Months Under Trump, Polluters Already Paying Lower Fines to EPA
ByAshley Braun
onAug 10, 2017 @ 14:22 PDT

It hasn't taken long for Donald Trump to make his mark (well, many marks) on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In the first six months in office, his EPA under Scott Pruitt has alread...
Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington, D.C.
us/These Companies Plan to Expand Coal Power Worldwide by 43 Percent
ByAshley Braun
onJun 28, 2017 @ 18:24 PDT

In Paris in 2015, more than 195 nations committed to slowing the rise of global warming to less than 3.6°F (2°C). In 2016, renewable energy saw unprecedented growth around the world.  Yet in 2017,...

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