Washington Post hires WSJ reporter Puko

Tim joins us from the Wall Avenue Journal, in which he has been reporting on vitality and local weather policy in Washington given that 2017. He has carefully lined the nation’s oil foyer, greenhouse-gas polices, and the geopolitics of oil and minerals. His memorable scoops have revealed guiding-the-scenes fights between sector titans and Republican lawmakers, the Trump administration’s attempt to dismantle methane regulations, and the Biden administration’s struggles with electrical power stability and substantial prices. Formerly, he coated vitality markets for the Journal in New York.

Tim has been reporting on electrical power and weather adjust for much more than a decade, investing the very first fifty percent of his job at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Critique, wherever he chronicled how Marcellus Shale was modifying his household point out of Pennsylvania — ahead of it altered the relaxation of the globe. He was the paper’s reporter of the calendar year in 2011 and a 3-time winner of the Culture of Skilled Journalists’ award for environmental reporter of the 12 months in Pennsylvania.

Tim, who grew up in the Pittsburgh suburb of McKeesport and has journalism degrees from Northwestern and Columbia, recently moved to Brookland with his girlfriend and two cats. Despite now currently being fully settled in Washington, he states he continues to be discouraged that there are no authentic bowling alleys nearer than Gaithersburg, and he’s 100 percent fully commited to over-clapping for the Steelers at each opportunity endlessly.