Arthur Neslen Explained

Arthur Neslen is a British-born journalist and author. Nelsen has especially covered Middle East issues, fossil lobbies' influence on European institutions and climate change. He served as journalist for Haaretz, Jane's Information Group, The Observer, The Guardian,[1] and as a correspondent for the websites of The Economist and al-Jazeera.[2] NGOs credited policy changes at the European commission,[3] international financial institutions[4] and wildlife regulatory agencies[5]  in part to Neslen’s work.

Career

Neslen began his career at the City Limits magazine and worked as the international editor of for Red Pepper and as a broadcast journalist for the BBC.

Neslen wrote two books about identity in the Middle East. Occupied Minds: A Journey Through the Israeli Psyche[6] was published by Pluto Press in 2006 and In Your Eyes A Sandstorm: Ways of Being Palestinian[7] was published by University of California Press in October, 2011. He is also the author of the booklet Gaza: Dignity Under Siege[8] which was published by CIDSE (International Co-operation for Development and Solidarity) in 2009. All three are collections of interviews and photographs.

After moving to Brussels, Neslen began working for The Guardian in 2014 as the paper’s Europe environment correspondent,[9] where he contributed to its award-winning Keep it in the ground[10] campaign.

His investigative reports often focused on how EU climate policy had been influenced by lobbying from fossil fuel majors including BP,[11] Shell,[12] Chevron,[13] Exxon and others acting in concert.[14] One report showedhttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/22/eu-dropped-pesticide-laws-due-to-us-pressure-over-ttip-documents-reveal[15] how US officials had pressured the EU into weakening pesticides regulations, in negotiations over the aborted[16] TTIP trade deal.

Other stories that he broke included the European Food Safety Authority’s use of an EU report that copy and pasted analyses from a Monsanto study[17] to justify a recommendation for relicensing glyphosate. The story was later vindicated by a cross-party inquiry in the European parliament.[18]

He is currently a senior reporter for Politico.

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Notes and References

  1. News: Neslen . Arthur . 18 March 2008 . Profile . The Guardian . London . 27 May 2011.
  2. Web site: Cartwright . Jill . 7 July 2006 . Anti-Zionist, pro-Israeli . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060720075503/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/735648.html . 20 July 2006 . 27 May 2011 . Haaretz.
  3. News: Neslen . Arthur . 2015-05-28 . Brussels moves to limit coal lobby's influence on pollution standards . en-GB . The Guardian . 0261-3077.
  4. News: Neslen . Arthur . 2015-10-30 . Macedonia dam faces the axe over risk of Balkan lynx extinction . en-GB . The Guardian . 0261-3077.
  5. News: Neslen . Arthur . 2016-05-05 . Europe to crack down on wildlife smugglers to protect rare lizard species . en-GB . The Guardian . 0261-3077.
  6. Neslen, Arthur Occupied Minds: A Journey Through the Israeli Psyche, January 2006, Pluto Press,
  7. Neslen, Arthur In Your Eyes A Sandstorm: Ways of Being Palestinian
  8. http://www.cidse.org/uploadedFiles/Publications/Publication_repository/BD%20Gaza%20ENGELS%20LR(2).pdf Gaza: Dignity Under Siege
  9. Web site: Arthur Neslen The Guardian. the Guardian. en.
  10. Web site: Keep it in the ground The Guardian. the Guardian. en.
  11. News: Neslen. Arthur. EU dropped climate policies after BP threat of oil industry 'exodus'. 2016-04-20. The Guardian. en-GB. 0261-3077.
  12. News: Neslen. Arthur. Shell lobbied to undermine EU renewables targets, documents reveal. 2015-04-27. The Guardian. en-GB. 0261-3077.
  13. News: Neslen. Arthur. TTIP: Chevron lobbied for controversial legal right as 'environmental deterrent'. 2016-04-26. The Guardian. en-GB. 0261-3077.
  14. News: Neslen. Arthur. Fossil fuel firms accused of renewable lobby takeover to push gas. 2015-01-22. The Guardian. Brussels. en-GB. 0261-3077.
  15. Web site: EU dropped pesticide laws due to US pressure over TTIP, documents reveal. 2015-05-22. the Guardian. en. 2020-04-21.
  16. News: Neslen. Arthur. Leaked TTIP documents cast doubt on EU-US trade deal. 2016-05-01. The Guardian. en-GB. 0261-3077.
  17. News: Neslen. Arthur. EU report on weedkiller safety copied text from Monsanto study. 2017-09-14. The Guardian. en-GB. 0261-3077.
  18. News: Neslen. Arthur. EU glyphosate approval was based on plagiarised Monsanto text, report finds. 2019-01-15. The Guardian. en-GB. 0261-3077.

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