Hilary Beaumont
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Hilary Beaumont is an investigative journalist covering the climate crisis and intersecting issues. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Rolling Stone, VICE News, The New Republic, and High Country News, among others.
In 2021, she won a SEAL Environmental Journalism Award, which recognizes journalists who produce impactful work and bring a fresh perspective to the climate beat.
Beaumont's work includes on-the-ground coverage of the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires for The Guardian and Al Jazeera, an investigation for The Guardian revealing how the fossil fuel industry helped to spread anti-protest laws across the U.S., and an investigation for Rolling Stone into the life and death of the first environmental activist killed by police in the United States.
As a staff reporter at VICE from 2015 to 2019, she covered issues affecting Indigenous communities, including the Canadian government’s inaction on the First Nations drinking water crisis. Her team received a Hillman Prize honorable mention for coverage of the water crisis that affected more than 100 Indigenous communities.
