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What makes climate change such a hard sell for storytellers?

Climate One Conversations feature oil companies and environmentalists, Republicans and Democrats,

the exciting and the scary aspects of the climate challenge.

I'm Greg Dalton.

Media coverage of climate change has increased dramatically since Donald Trump took office,

and so have expectations for reporters on the climate beat.

An environmentalist tweeted that, oh, Axi's reporter throws in the towel on climate change.

And I thought, well, it's not my job to hold the towel, let alone throw it anywhere.

Amy Harder reports from Washington, D.C.

on energy and climate change for Axios

and writes a weekly column called Harder Line.

She previously covered climate and energy

at the Wall Street Journal and believes her job

is to report on carbon pollution as it is,

not how advocates want it to be. People say it's just Wall Street follows the money, and this is just where the money's going.

Patrick Temple West covers global energy from New York for the Financial Times and contributes to a column called moral money.

As climate disruption hits the economy in more ways, it is increasingly being covered as a business story.

With apologies to mainstream media, there are two tools that are holding companies accountable

in ways that didn't exist to the same degree 10 years ago, social media and accompanied's employees.

Aaron Kramer is CEO of BSR, a nonprofit formerly known as Business for Social Responsibility

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