Ellen Gilmer

Senior Legal Reporter, Bloomberg Environment

Ellen M. Gilmer is senior legal reporter for Bloomberg Environment in Washington, D.C., covering environmental litigation. She previously wrote about policy and legal issues for E&E News. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a master’s degree in environmental law.

Podcast Guest Appearances

Oil and Opioids on Trial

What do Big Pharma, Big Tobacco and Big Oil have in common?

They’ve all been brought under fire, and into the courts, for knowingly causing public harm, and even death, with their products. You can include the gun industry in that list too. And, like the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries, evidence has shown that gas and oil companies have long known about the link between their product and increased greenhouse gases – and kept it to themselves.