Chris Spinder

About

I produce network-quality, broadcast-standard feature news stories focusing on climate and environmental topics and distribute them to 200+ stations across the United States. We operate in conjunction with the independent, non-profit, non-partisan science-based platform Climate Central and adhere to the highest level of journalistic standards that we've practiced for decades working inside traditional network news operations including CBS Network News. I'm formerly a producer at CBS network, where I produced feature and breaking news segments for CBS Evening News, CBS Sunday Morning and CBS Mornings. I focused almost exclusively on the climate and environmental beat, covering stories ranging from the renewable energy transition to extreme weather events and more investigative stories including a look at a controversial recycling program in Texas targeted in high-profile litigation. Other assignments took my team overseas to cover the rapidly shrinking ice pack in Iceland, the intense drought impacting the world's shipping lanes through the Panama Canal and the deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon.