Washington Post hires WSJ reporter Puko

Tim joins us from the Wall Avenue Journal, wherever he has been reporting on power and climate policy in Washington given that 2017. He has closely protected the nation’s oil foyer, greenhouse-gas restrictions, and the geopolitics of oil and minerals. His memorable scoops have revealed behind-the-scenes fights between field titans and Republican lawmakers, the Trump administration’s attempt to dismantle methane laws, and the Biden administration’s struggles with vitality security and significant price ranges. Previously, he coated power markets for the Journal in New York.

Tim has been reporting on power and local weather modify for additional than a decade, paying the initial half of his vocation at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Critique, where by he chronicled how Marcellus Shale was modifying his property point out of Pennsylvania — just before it modified the rest of the environment. He was the paper’s reporter of the calendar year in 2011 and a 3-time winner of the Culture of Experienced 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, just lately moved to Brookland with his girlfriend and two cats. Inspite of now getting entirely settled in Washington, he claims he stays pissed off that there are no legit bowling alleys nearer than Gaithersburg, and he’s 100 % dedicated to above-clapping for the Steelers at every single chance for good.