Floodlight is a nonprofit environmental news collaborative. We partner with local journalists and the Guardian to co-publish investigations about the corporate and ideological interests holding back climate action. Read our first story, with the Texas Observer and San Antonio Report, about how the gas industry is fighting city climate plans.
$9 (recurring each month)
The next 9 years are critical to avoiding irreversible climate damage. Help us expose the powerful interests stalling action.
$20.50 (or what you can)
Scientists are calling for deep decarbonization by 2050 to avoid the worst of the climate crisis. Help us reveal the powerful influences fighting that goal.
$50
Our list of story leads is already longer than we can tackle. Help us expand and collaborate with more local journalists in Texas, Wyoming, California and eventually all 50 states.
EMILY HOLDEN
Founder
Emily is an investigative environmental journalist with a decade of reporting experience in Washington, D.C. She was most recently the environment correspondent for the Guardian. She has written for Politico, E&E News and CQ Roll Call. Her work has also been published in The Arizona Republic, the Baton Rouge Advocate, the Houston Chronicle and Gannett newspapers.
Emily has covered the White House, federal agencies, Congress, the courts, and electricity regulation, through the Obama and Trump administrations. She grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where her father works in the oil industry.
ALEXANDER KAUFMAN
Adviser
Alexander is the senior environment reporter for HuffPost. He is on the board of directors of the historic magazine Jewish Currents, on the advisory board of the local investigative site New York Focus, and serves as an adviser to Floodlight.
A two-time recipient of the SEAL Environmental Journalism Award, his globe-spanning coverage of climate and environmental issues includes dispatches from China's first atom-smashing lab, Greenland's ice sheet, and villages deep in the Brazilian Amazon. He started in journalism at 15 years old, writing for a weekly newspaper in the New York City suburbs.
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Are you a journalist looking to partner on an investigation? We will confidentially discuss your pitch—whether you're just starting to formulate an idea or are well into the process. If we can't collaborate, we will share our resources to point you in the right direction.