Michael Copley

Michael Copley is a correspondent on NPR’s Climate Desk. He covers what corporations are and are not doing in response to climate change, and how they’re being impacted by rising temperatures. Before joining NPR, Copley was a reporter at S&P Global, where he covered the energy industry and green investing. He was the first reporter to reveal the solar industry’s links to China’s Xinjiang region, where Beijing is accused of persecuting Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities. Copley was part of a team at S&P Global that was a finalist for a Dateline Award in 2020 for a series of stories that documented how a building spree of natural gas infrastructure threatens to leave American energy consumers holding the bill for stranded fossil fuel assets. He also investigated the auto industry’s failure to disclose the risk of human rights abuses in the supply chains for electric vehicles. The work was named enterprise story of the year in 2019 by the American Society of Business Publication Editors. Tuesday April 30, 2024

Biography:  https://www.npr.org/people/1134404086/michael-copley

76%

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The Daily's Verdict

This author has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.

Bias

85%

Examples:

  • Environmental groups following the talks say some countries continue to block a crucial measure: A global limit on the production of new plastic, which researchers say is essential to rein in pollution.

Conflicts of Interest

100%

Examples:

  • The outcome of these talks is of critical importance to countries and communities around the world, and it is vital to expose and confront the role of corporations whose agendas are fundamentally in conflict with the global public interest.

Contradictions

75%

Examples:

  • Developed countries, including the US and UK, did not support a proposal to address plastic production in the upcoming global treaty to cut plastic waste.

Deceptions

40%

Examples:

  • Critics say American negotiators haven’t been willing to push for a global cap on plastic production, and are instead throwing their weight behind measures like recycling that are favored by the country’s fossil fuel and petrochemical industries.

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