Featured Investigations
Alleen reported and hosted a six-episode podcast series on the Energy Transfer vs Greenpeace trial.
Alleen was senior editor and reporter on a podcast series about criminalization of environmental defenders worlwide.
Alleen and John reviewed every expense Enbridge reimbursed police after the Line 3 protests.
Alleen and Akil mapped the climate risks for over 6,500 U.S. detention facilities.
How Enbridge collaborated with police to thwart Line 3 pipeline resistance.
On the private security company hired to quell the Standing Rock movement.
Recent Work (Audio)
How the U.S. Got the World to View Environmentalists as "Terrorists,” Drilled, May 6, 2025.
Department of Homeland Security, the Manufactured "EcoTerrorist" Panic, and Cop City, Drilled, January 31, 2024.
Seven Years Later, an Environmental Impact Statement for the Dakota Access Pipeline, Drilled, December 6, 2023.
Abeer Butmeh: Living on the Front Lines of a War and the Climate Crisis, in Palestine, Drilled, November 14, 2023.
Corporate Counterinsurgency Against Line 3 Pipeline Resistance, Intercepted, July 7, 2021.
Recent Work (Print)
The Kill Step, Grist, July 18, 2025.
10 states fund prisons using stolen Indigenous lands, Grist, January 28, 2025.
Is it Ethical for Climate Journalists to Accept a Paid trip to Israel?, Eco Files, September 19, 2024.
In Backlash to Campus Pro-Palestine Protests, Echoes of Standing Rock and the Global Crackdown on Climate Protest, Drilled, May 3, 2024.
FBI sent several informants to Standing Rock protests, court documents show, Grist, March 14, 2024.
Minnesota judge throws out charges against Line 3 pipeline protesters, Grist, September 22, 2023.
How Georgia’s organized crime law swept up dozens of nonviolent ‘Cop City’ activists, Grist, September 6, 2023.
East Coast Wildfires Put Incarcerated People on Frontlines of Climate Crisis, The Appeal, June 13, 2023.
Pipeline Company Spent Big On Police Gear to Use Against Standing Rock Protesters, with Naveena Sadasivam, The Intercept & Grist, May 22, 2023.
After spying on Standing Rock, TigerSwan shopped anti-protest 'counterinsurgency' to other oil companies, with Naveena Sadasivam, The Intercept & Grist, April 13, 2023.
Study: Extreme heat is driving deaths in US prisons, Grist, March 1, 2023.
Documents show how 19 ‘Cop City’ activists got charged with terrorism, Grist, January 27, 2023.
Study: Extreme heat responsible for hundreds of deaths in Texas prisons, Grist, November 10, 2022.
Ron DeSantis avoids saying ‘climate change.’ Incarcerated Floridians are living it, Grist, November 4, 2022.
New Federal Anti-SLAPP Legislation Would Protect Activists and Whistleblowers From Abusive Lawsuits, Inside Climate News, September 23, 2022.
Prison air conditioning is coming too slowly for those who need it most, Grist, September 1, 2022.
This Is What Happens When You Treat Fossil Fuels as a National Security Issue, The New Republic, August 4, 2022.
California vineyard laborers wanted wildfire safety. Then came a shadowy counter-movement, The Guardian, June 11, 2022.
Recent Work (Video)
Climate and Punishment, with Stuart Harmon and Travis Mannon, The Intercept, February 12, 2022.
Grape Pickers Crash Lavish Sonoma Winery Banquet Demanding Better Wildfire Protections, with Emily Cohen Ibañez and Travis Mannon, The Intercept, December 21, 2021.
She Defended Her Land Against a Mine in Guatemala. Then She Fled for her Life, with Martyna Starosta, The Intercept, June 23, 2019.
Standing Rock Pitches Last-Ditch Fight for the Vote in North Dakota, with Jihan Hafiz, The Intercept, November 3, 2018.
More Oldies
Migrants Fleeing Hurricanes and Drought Face New Climate Disasters in ICE Detention, The Intercept, March 31, 2022.
Sierra Club Executive Director Resigns Amid Upheaval Around Race, Gender, and Abuses, The Intercept, August 19, 2021.
Inside the Oil Industry's Fight to Roll Back Tribal Sovereignty After Supreme Court Decision, The Intercept, March 10, 2021.
In Wake of Capital Riot, GOP Legislatures 'Rebrand' Old Anti-BLM Protest Laws, with Akela Lacy, The Intercept, January 12, 2021.
Private Security Firms Ramp Up For Potential Election Unrest in Minneapolis, The Intercept, November 1, 2020.
Amid Terror Warnings, Railroad Industry Group Passed Intel on Environmental Journalist to Cops, with Murtaza Hussain, The Intercept, September 13, 2020.
Tilting at Windmills: The FBI Chased Imagined Eco-Activist Enemies, Documents Reveal, The Intercept, August 24, 2020.
Trump's Pick to Manage Public Lands has a Four-Decade History of 'Overt Racism' Toward Native People, The Intercept, August 1, 2020.
Law Enforcement Scoured Protester Communications and Exaggerated Threats to Minneapolis Cops, Leaked Documents Show, with Mara Hvistendahl, The Intercept, June 26, 2020.
Columbia Sportswear Sought to Crush a Warehouse Union Drive as the Pandemic Approached, The Intercept, May 20, 2020.
No Surrender: After Police Defend a Gas Pipeline Over Indigenous Land Rights, Protesters Shut Down Railways Across Canada, with Amber Bracken, The Intercept, February 23, 2020.
Paid By the Pipeline: A Canadian Energy Company Bought an Oregon Sheriff’s Unit, with Will Parrish, The Intercept, February 12, 2020.
Energy Insurrection: Puerto Rico’s Power Failures Inspired a Rooftop Solar Movement. But Officials Are Undermining It — in Favor of Natural Gas, The Intercept, February 9, 2020.
Weathering the Storm: Two Years After Maria, Relief Funds Promise Displacement for the Hardest-Hit Puerto Ricans, The Intercept, September 22, 2019.
Testing the Line: As Animal Rights Activists Push Legal Boundaries, Canada Considers What Makes a Terrorist, The Intercept, May 12, 2019.
The Green Scare: How a Movement That Never Killed Anyone Became the FBI’s No. 1 Domestic Terrorism Threat, The Intercept, March 23, 2019.
The FBI Tried to Use the #MeToo Movement to Pressure an Environmental Activist into Becoming an Informant, with John Knefel, The Intercept, September 1, 2018.
Former Wives of Top White House Aid Rob Porter Both Told FBI He Abused Them, with Ryan Grim, The Intercept, February 7, 2018.
Los Angeles Blames Wildfires on Homeless, but Evicting Them Won't Solve the Real Problems: Climate Change and Urban Sprawl, with Eric Preven and Joshua Preven, The Intercept, February 4, 2018.
Robert De Niro Accused of Exploiting Hurricane Irma to Build Resort in Barbuda, with Naomi Klein, The Intercept, January 23, 2018.
Rogue Twitter Accounts Fight to Preserve the Voice of Government Science, The Intercept, March 11, 2017.
The Jungle: During Paris Summit, Climate and War Refugees Continued to Perish, The Intercept, December 15, 2015.
Under House Arrest, A Climate Activist Waits Out the Paris Conference, The Intercept, November 30, 2015.
Cityview leaves North Minneapolis special education students behind, Twin Cities Daily Planet, July 5, 2012.
This Land Is Our Land: Inheritors of Reservation Land Fight Back, In These Times, June 29, 2011.
Minneapolis vs. St. Paul: End of a great sibling rivalry?, MinnPost, April 13, 2009.