A Natural Gas Project Is Biden’s Next Big Climate Test
A proposed export terminal on the Louisiana coast highlights the tension between economic growth, geopolitics and the environment.
By David Gelles, Clifford Krauss and Coral Davenport
Clifford Krauss
I am a reporter for The New York Times covering energy in the United States and overseas.
What I Cover
I write about fossil fuels and renewable energy with a special interest in the energy transition in a warming world.
My Background
I have been at The Times since 1990, and have been based in Washington, New York, Buenos Aires, Toronto and Houston. I have covered foreign and domestic affairs, including reporting trips around the United States, Canada, Latin America, North Africa and the Middle East. I previously worked at The Wall Street Journal and have had articles published in Foreign Affairs and GQ. I received an Overseas Press Club award for environmental reporting in Bolivia, and I was an Edward R. Murrow fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. I am the author of “Inside Central America: Its People, Politics and History.” I studied history at Vassar College and the University of Chicago and journalism at Columbia University. I was born in New York City.
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