Joselow to cover climate policy and politics for Washington Post

We are thrilled to announce that Maxine Joselow is taking on a new assignment, joining the Climate & Environment Department as its climate policy and politics reporter. In this role, she will cover the most powerful players influencing climate and environment, in the United States and worldwide, and the effect those decisions have on all of us.

Maxine came to The Post in September 2021 as the inaugural author of the Climate 202 newsletter. She helped grow the newsletter’s audience to more than 100,000 subscribers before its run ended in December.

In addition to the newsletter, Maxine has written several revelatory stories over the past year. She recently investigated the turmoil over racial equity at the Sierra Club, the nation’s oldest environmental group. She also wrote a memorable piece about a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who has started denying the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change. She revealed how Maryland’s governor had tapped a gas lobbyist to serve on a commission regulating the industry, prompting the governor to withdraw the appointment the next day. And she profiled a member of the Consumer Product Safety Commission whose offhand comments about gas stoves fueled a culture war. She has also played a key role covering the U.N. climate talks over the past couple of years, in Glasgow and Dubai.

Maxine lives on Capitol Hill with her fiancé, Ben, and her cat, Ollie. In her free time, she enjoys baking cookies and meownaging Ollie’s Instagram account.