Washington Post hires WSJ reporter Puko

Tim joins us from the Wall Street Journal, the place he has been reporting on electrical power and climate coverage in Washington considering that 2017. He has closely covered the nation’s oil lobby, greenhouse-gasoline laws, and the geopolitics of oil and minerals. His unforgettable scoops have revealed guiding-the-scenes fights between industry titans and Republican lawmakers, the Trump administration’s try to dismantle methane rules, and the Biden administration’s struggles with energy security and superior rates. Beforehand, he covered strength marketplaces for the Journal in New York.

Tim has been reporting on vitality and local climate modify for a lot more than a decade, paying the first 50 percent of his career at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Evaluation, in which he chronicled how Marcellus Shale was altering his residence point out of Pennsylvania — ahead of it transformed the rest of the earth. He was the paper’s reporter of the 12 months in 2011 and a a few-time winner of the Culture of Qualified Journalists’ award for environmental reporter of the 12 months in Pennsylvania.

Tim, who grew up in the Pittsburgh suburb of McKeesport and has journalism levels from Northwestern and Columbia, not too long ago moved to Brookland with his girlfriend and two cats. Irrespective of now getting entirely settled in Washington, he claims he continues to be annoyed that there are no legit bowling alleys nearer than Gaithersburg, and he’s 100 percent fully commited to more than-clapping for the Steelers at every prospect for good.