Katie Surma

More than half of global mining projects for “energy transition” minerals are located on or near Indigenous territories. Indigenous advocates argue the world can’t solve climate change—a problem caused by extractivism—with more extractivism. https://t.co/wuOpPyZr5I

RT @JakeBolster2: Floating solar is not perfect but has serious potential in the CO River basin, according to several studies. Read my late…

RT @jonathanwatts: ‘We carry on with the sadness’: new projects honor life and legacy of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira https://t.co/kZzT2v…

Through its Belt and Road Initiative, China is investing more in wind and solar energy than in coal for the 1st time Still, coal plants financed in earlier years are coming online and will continue to emit CO2 for decades There are other caveats, story⬇️ https://t.co/1MQLMGSlVd

An honor to win the Deadline Club's "Science, Technology, Medical or Environmental Reporting" award with my colleague @nkus for our series on the legal system that allows corporations to sue governments for enacting environmental protections https://t.co/Hc7fDb1dGL

A new report reveals over 6,400 attacks on human rights defenders worldwide in the past decade. Land and environmental defenders account for three-fourths of the cases, highlighting just how dangerous defending nature is. https://t.co/2CtegxbGtE

Fossil fuel companies spent decades misleading the public about what they knew about climate change and the dangers of the products they were selling. A new report details how those companies did it—and how their efforts are evolving today https://t.co/EjoMI2ljPu

RT @insideclimate: An ICN investigation, reported by Katie Surma and Nicholas Kusnetz, is a finalist in the Scripps Howard Journalism Award…

RT @LoebVernon: Inside Climate News Series Is a Scripps Howard Finalist @nkus @Katie_Surma https://t.co/KbQXyYPSSQ

Too often, extractive projects move forward on Indigenous lands without communities’ consent. Indigenous groups want to change that and are fighting to strengthen free, prior and informed consent laws. https://t.co/knWWGD9Tbv

“We do this not only for us, but for all of humanity and all beings" For Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari of Peru, a winner of this year’s Goldman Environmental Prize, everything in nature has a role and must be protected. https://t.co/1U4t3LsKu8

The Trump administration’s choice for the EPA’s top lawyer has never taken a deposition, argued a motion or authored a legal pleading. On Wednesday, Republicans on a Senate committee advanced Sean Donahue’s nomination anyway. https://t.co/ydm6xDRLdZ

Is Bolivia’s $1.2 Billion Deal to Protect Its Forests a Climate Boon—or a False Solution? From @nkus https://t.co/8b62nNw8oV

RT @MaryLawlorhrds: Grateful to @insideclimate's @Katie_Surma for their coverage of my latest report on human rights defenders working in i…

Defending human rights and the environment in rural areas comes with heightened dangers and little public support. "There’s over 300 killings of human rights defenders every year, and about 70 percent of them are on people defending land." https://t.co/xQhxUw6SgV

One of the fastest-growing environmental and social movements worldwide aims to secure legal rights for ecosystems and other parts of the natural world. Here’s how that works. https://t.co/pY8sQ9onVK

China’s Belt and Road initiative has brought badly needed infrastructure to poor countries, but it has also left behind environmental destruction and human rights abuses. https://t.co/UFTXNPnOt2