Ishan Thakore
Ishan Thakore joined CPR News in July 2024 as a Climate and Environment Reporter. Ishan specializes in multimedia production and pursuing longform investigations. His audio, print and television pieces have been featured on WNYC, THE CITY, the BBC, Netflix, National Geographic blogs, and more. He worked for six years at the news and comedy show "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee," as a fact-checker and then associate producer. He's the recipient of an Investigative Reporters and Editors Fellowship, a Fulbright-National Geographic Fellowship, a BBC/Sundance Institute Fellowship, a FASPE Fellowship and was a 2023-2024 Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at CU Boulder.
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The Trump administration wants to expand drilling on public lands, but oil and gas developers expressed zero interest in Thursday’s sale.
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The move continues the Trump administration’s support of coal, but drew a furious response from environmental groups and Colorado officials.
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Hundreds of protesters gathered in Boulder in support of the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
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The department announced that funding for 223 projects, overwhelmingly located in Democratic states, would be terminated.