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About:Pulitzer-prize nominated investigative journalist. Before becoming a reporter, Rust was working to getting her PhD at the University of Wisconsin, where she studied monkey feces for hormone levels. Rust has worked as a science reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;held a fellowship for environmental reporting at Stanford University; worked as an environmental reporter for California Watch; worked at the Columbia University School of Journalism; and has co-authored a series of stories on the energy industry’s alleged knowledge of climate change effects on melting arctic ice from 2015 to 2017.

Notable Connections: Steve Coll, the Rockefeller Brothers, Center for Investigative Reporting

Of Note:

• Steve Coll reportedly recruited Rust to Columbia to begin environmental reporting program. The two allegedly worked on Coll’s book that was highly critical of the energy industry, Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power, according to a colleague close to both.
• Rust has been criticized for shoddy and biased reporting, including cherry-picking sources and information that supported her thesis, particularly in articles she wrote exposing the government’s lax regulation of a chemical known as bisphenol A (BPA), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2009.

Sources

• E&E News: “Exxon's conflicting concerns about climate change: A tale of 2 investigations,” by Malavika Vyawahare (10/28/15)
• Energy Path:“Confirmed: Rockefellers Admit Funding Pay-to-Play Attack “Journalism” Against Exxon,” by Katie Brown (12/2/16)
• Huffington Post: “When A Journalist Crosses From Science To Ideology: Climate Change And The Case Of Susanne Rust,” by Jon Entine (4/29/17)