Rachel Santarsiero

Rachel Santarsiero is the director of the National Security Archive’s Climate Change Transparency Project in Washington, D.C., where she gets documents on climate change declassified through extensive Freedom of Information Act requests and archival research. Her writing has appeared in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Climate Home News, and New Security Beat, and her research has been featured in The Guardian, BBC, The Washington Post, and more.

Inside the struggle to dismantle America’s greenhouse gas data

New accounts show the oil and gas industry trying to weaken methane reporting while saving the federal emissions system it relies on.

August 24, 2026