Emily Holden
About Emily Holden
Emily Holden is an environment reporter for Floodlight, which partners with local journalists and the Guardian to investigate the corporate and ideological interests holding back climate action.
Revealed: water company and city officials knew about Flint poison risk
Exclusive: email exchanges show senior employees knew Michigan residents might risk being poisoned by tap water months before city admitted to problem
Big plastic polluters backed US recycling day
America Recycles Day promoted by EPA is brainchild of not-for-profit backed by companies that produce plastic products.
US and Canada have lost three billion birds since 1970
More than one in four birds have been lost across diverse groups and habitats, in what researchers describe as a ‘wake-up call’
Nearly two dozen Democrats want to be president. Only two have a climate change plan
Scientists have warned that governments have about 11 years to enact large-scale climate legislation to stop global warming
What is the Green New Deal and how would it benefit society?
Republicans call it a "socialist manifesto," environmental groups hail it, and some say it doesn’t go far enough.
Climate change 2020: can the Democrats make it an election issue?
A Green New Deal will aim to spur jobs and tackle inequity. It will aim to help people of color and Indigenous communities. And it will try to help places like Benham, Kentucky.
Air pollution remains worst in US communities of color despite progress
Most polluted census tracts in 1981 remained the most polluted in 2016 despite nationwide reductions in pollution, study says