Scholars
Loredana Loy
New York University
Based in
United States
North America
Loredana Loy is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Environmental Studies at New York University. She is a political sociologist interested in how environmental reform efforts become contested and, as a result, socially and politically constrained. Her research has approached this question primarily through the case of climate change, analyzing how institutional actors across the state, media, and corporate domains intervene in public discourse and policy debates to shape public understandings and policy responses.
Country(ies) of Specialty
United StatesFocus areas of expertise
Climate policy and politics Communications research Agriculture Social movementsHow to Connect
Publications
Articles
Loy, Loredana, Wetts, R. (2026). “Let them eat kale!” Appeals to class based resentment in American conservative opposition to climate change solutions. Social Problems, spag003.
https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spag003
Loy, Loredana, Jacquet, J. (2025). The animal agriculture industry’s obstruction of campaigns
promoting individual climate action. Climate Policy, 25(9), 1536–1545.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2025.2460603
Wetts, R., Painter, J., Loy, Loredana. (2024). The IPCC in the hybrid public sphere: Divergent
responses to climate mitigation solutions in mainstream and social media. Climatic Change, 177, 178. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-024-03827-x
Hall, G., Loy, Loredana, Brulle, R. J., Schell-Smith, K., Hu, M.-M., & Trollback, S. (2024).
Where ideology meets private interest: The three-part composition of climate obstruction in the United States. Environmental Research Communications, 6(8), 081003.
https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ad61c6
Loy, Loredana. (2022). Experts and Climate Change Politicisation. A Case Study of the
Environmental Protection Agency (1983–2015). Science and Public Policy, 49(5), 699–713. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scac020
James Painter, J. Ettinger, D. C. Holmes, Loredana Loy, J. Pinto, L. M. Richardson, L. Thomas-Walters, K. Vowles, R. Wetts.“Climate Delay Discourses Persist in Global Climate Coverage: A Case Study of the Television Coverage of the IPCC’s 2021 Physical Science Report in Five Countries.” Forthcoming in Communications Earth & Environment.
Loredana Loy, 2022. Experts and climate change politicisation. A case study of the Environmental Protection Agency (1983–2015), Science and Public Policy.
Brulle RJ, Hall G, Loy L, Schell-Smith K. 2021. “Obstructing action: foundation funding and US climate change counter-movement organizations,” Climatic Change. 2021;166(1):17.
Wetts, Rachel, J. Painter, and Loredana Loy. “The IPCC in the Hybrid Public Sphere: Divergent Responses to Climate Mitigation Solutions in Mainstream and Social Media.” Under review at Climatic Change.
Hall, Galen, R. Brulle, Loredana Loy, K. Schell-Smith, M. Hu, and S. Trollback. “Where Private Interests Meet Ideology: Board Interlocks in the Climate Change Countermovement.” Under review at Nature Communications.