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Emma Foehringer Merchant

Emma Foehringer Merchant is a journalist who covers climate change, energy, and the environment. Her work has appeared in the Boston Globe Magazine, Inside Climate News, Greentech Media, Grist, and other outlets.

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July 10, 2023
Emma Foehringer Merchant
How the E.V. Revolution Could Help Bankrupt Public Transit
Mass transit is essential to reaching America’s climate goals—but moving away from gas-powered cars risks depriving it of crucial funding.
July 28, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Bernie’s environmentalists are starting to rally around Hillary.
July 27, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
John Hinckley will not be stalking anyone on Twitter.
July 27, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Howard Dean has finally embraced The Scream.
July 27, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Watch the Mothers of the Movement say: We’re with her.
July 26, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
It is definitely not beneath Donald Trump to steal from some kids.
July 19, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Rudy Giuliani was unhinged tonight—his jaw, that is.
July 19, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Today’s RNC theme is actually “Make America Scared Again.”
July 7, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Is Minnesota the “Jim Crow North”?
July 5, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
The Last Stand for Sanders’s Environmental Activists?
For the greens looking to change the Democratic Party platform, it's the end of the world as we know it.
June 28, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Volkswagen gambled its very existence to cheat on emissions.
June 24, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
President Obama just created the first national monument honoring the LGBT community.
June 20, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Last year saw the most killings of environmental activists on record.
June 17, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Green Lefties Are Grieving Over Sanders’s Loss. Can They Learn to Love Clinton?
June 10, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Forget the woman card, Clinton has the feminist card.
June 9, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Obama will debut some of his general election Trump takedowns for Jimmy Fallon.
May 20, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Not even Oklahoma’s pro-life governor thinks the state’s abortion-ban bill is legit.
May 19, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Oklahoma is on the verge of making abortion effectively illegal.
May 17, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Bernie Sanders’s response to pandemonium at the Nevada Democratic Convention: *shrug*.
May 12, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Should We Respond to Climate Change Like We Did to WWII?
The controversial theory of "climate mobilization" says we should.

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