Leah Garden

Leah Garden is a freelance climate policy journalist and former staff writer at Trellis. She has written for Heated, The Daily Beast, The New Republic, Allure and others, reporting on the intricacies of US federal climate policy to the sustainability of bioengineered food to the efficacy of advocacy on social media. Leah has a master’s degree in Sustainability Management from American University and is an alumna of the Freeman College of Management at Bucknell University.

The US government shut down: this is why it matters

The United States government shutdown is leading to more pollution and announcements of clean energy project cuts. Beginning on October 1, the US federal government ceased all activity after the Rep...