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Daniel Cusick

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Covers:  Community adaptation and resilience to climate change, including from extreme storms, floods, droughts, wildfires, heatwaves and other climate stressors.
Independent energy and environmental journalist, formerly with POLITICO’s E&E News. Accepting freelance and contract assignments.

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Daniel Cusick’s Biography

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Daniel Cusick is a nationally recognized environmental journalist with more than 25 years experience writing about how people, communities and elected officials respond to environmental change. His stories draw upon primary research, field reporting and vibrant writing to engage readers through fact-based storytelling.

Daniel’s work has appeared in POLITICO, E&E News, ScientificAmerican.com, Energy News Network, Environmental Health News, Coastal News Today and other publications. It has also …

Daniel Cusick’s Journalist Portfolio

Florida tosses climate lifeline to swamped 'Keybillies'

Florida tosses climate lifeline to swamped 'Keybillies'

Longtime residents of the Florida Keys are being driven out by tidal flooding, skyrocketing costs and turbo-c…

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Why a century-old beach building program could last 'forever'

Why a century-old beach building program could last 'forever'

The cost of constantly rebuilding beaches is rising because of climate change. But it's unlikely that project…

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Ice fishing, a Minn. tradition, cracks as winters warm

Ice fishing, a Minn. tradition, cracks as winters warm

BEMIDJI, Minn. - Subzero temperatures are money in the bank for this small Minnesota city roughly 100 miles f…

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Refugees fleeing violence find a tent city - and water

Refugees fleeing violence find a tent city - and water

BIDI BIDI REFUGEE SETTLEMENT, Uganda - Here in the shadow of a brutal civil war, Suzan Akongo's life has been…

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Hurricane Delta aims for 'devil's playground'

Hurricane Delta aims for 'devil's playground'

CAMERON, La. - The 200 residents of this hurricane-battered hamlet could fairly argue they are among the unlu…

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Wind Power Has Benefitted North Dakota. So Why Have Residents Soured on It?

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By Daniel Cusick Verified
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This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. George Wolff offered a cautious greeting through the window of my rented F-150. He was fresh from tending livestock, which explained the dried mud on his forehead and shirt. His boots and jeans were soiled with barnyard muck, his ballcap tipped back to cool his brow.
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Wind energy benefits North Dakota. So why has the state soured on it? Original

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By Daniel Cusick Verified
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WISHEK, N.D. — George Wolff offered a cautious greeting through the window of my rented F-150. He was fresh from tending livestock, which explained the dried mud on his forehead and shirt. His boots and jeans were soiled with barnyard muck, his ballcap tipped back to cool his brow. It was a warm, breezy May day in North Dakota, with wind speeds hovering around 20 miles per hour, gusting to the low 30s. Angus cattle foraged on a hillside pasture behind Wolff’s barns.
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It’s a terrible year along the Colorado River — except for these fish

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By Daniel Cusick Verified
| E&E News Verified
A handful of massive, ancient fish species could emerge as the unlikely winners from the record-setting drought gripping the Colorado River that has sent states, farmers, cities and the federal government scrambling. The Trump administration announced Friday that it is planning to release an enormous amount of water from a reservoir upstream of Lake Powell as part of its emergency plan to head off a water and power disaster along the West’s most important river.
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