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The Hot Beat: Reporting on Climate from the Nation's Capital

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In his first days in office, President Joe Biden put the global climate crisis on the country’s front burner, rejoining the Paris Accord and mobilizing his administration to tackle climate change at every level.

Two of the most experienced and respected national reporters in Washington D.C. will provide an inside look at how dramatically the climate beat has changed, contrasting the start of the Biden era with the challenges of covering the anti-climate agenda of the Trump Administration.  The panel will feature Juliet Eilperin, Senior National Affairs Reporter at the The Washington Post and Lisa Friedman, Climate Reporter at The New York Times. Science journalist Cristine Russell, ENRP Senior Fellow, will moderate.

Co-Sponsors: Environment & Natural Resources Program; Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics & Public Policy; Climate, Energy & Environment PIC (CEE-PIC): A student organization at HKS

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Capitol

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Speakers

Juliet Eilperin

Juliet Eilperin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning senior national affairs correspondent for The Washington Post, covering the sweeping new federal climate and environmental policies of the Biden Administration. She reported on the Trump Administration’s drastic transformation of government policy in these areas.  Eilperin has worked for the Post since 1998, previously serving as its White House bureau chief, national environmental reporter and House of Representatives correspondent. She was part of a Post team that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting, traveling to Alaska for a series on the global impact of climate change. Twitter: @eilperin

Lisa Friedman

Lisa Friedman is a reporter on The New York Times’ climate desk, focusing on climate and environmental policy in Washington. She covers the Biden Administration’s broad new climate initiatives and broke many stories about the Trump Administration’s efforts to repeal climate regulations and limit the use of science in policy-making. Friedman has covered eight international climate talks and chased climate-related stories from the bottom of a Chinese coal mine to the top of snow-capped Himalaya Mountains. She previously worked for Climatewire, leading a team of 12 reporters, and earlier at The Los Angeles Daily News and The Oakland Tribune. Twitter @LFFriedman