Climate change is now an undeniable reality for the oil industry. It threatens their reputations, their business models – and in some cases, the actual physical infrastructure they’ve built to extract all that oil in the first place. That’s forcing the industry to confront some uncomfortable questions.
Elizabeth Harball is a reporter with Alaska's Energy Desk, covering Alaska’s oil and gas industry and environmental policy. She is a contributor to the Energy Desk’s Midnight Oil podcast series. Before moving to Alaska in 2016, Harball worked at E&E News in Washington, D.C., where she covered federal and state climate change policy. Originally from Kalispell, Montana, Harball is a graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.