Kristi Swartz, a reporter with Energywire, an E&E News product, has been hired by Floodlight News to be an investigative reporter.
Floodlight is a nonprofit environmental and climate news service.
Swartz joined E&E News in 2014 and has written about utility and energy topics in the Southeast, including the region’s transition away from coal to natural gas and the sporadic growth of renewable energy, particularly solar. Other areas of focus include state regulatory policy and nuclear power.
Before joining E&E News, She was a business reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and covered utilities and energy for The Palm Beach Post. She also worked at newspapers in North Carolina.
Swartz graduated from the University of Maryland in 1998 with a degree in journalism.
