The pioneering climate journalist Peter Dykstra has died at the age of 67. After 17 years at CNN, he became the publisher of Environmental Health News and The Daily Climate. Prior to his time at CNN, he spent over a decade working for Greenpeace. He appeared on Democracy Now! in 2014 and talked about corporate media coverage of the climate crisis.

Peter Dykstra: “Well, I would ask people, sometime soon, watch a half-hour of network news one of the next few evenings. What you won’t see, in all likelihood, is serious discussion of climate change. What you will see are one or two or three commercials from the oil and coal industry talking about generating jobs and keeping the lights lit and keeping America prosperous and keeping us away from foreign oil.”

The pioneering climate journalist Peter Dykstra, speaking in 2014. He died on July 31 at the age of 67.