Lyndsey Layton and Jesse Pesta, deputy editors on the climate desk at the New York Times, sent out the following to the staff:
We are thrilled to announce that Maxine Joselow, an energetic reporter, will be joining the Climate desk to cover climate policy and politics.
Maxine spent the last four years at The Washington Post, first as an anchor of its daily climate newsletter and most recently as its lead reporter covering climate policy and politics. At this moment of extreme shifts in Washington, Maxine has a winning combination of fast twitch muscles, lots of drive and a deep familiarity with federal agencies and those who seek to influence them. She will be an outstanding addition to a D.C.-based climate policy team that is dominating this coverage.
Maxine broke the story last year about how Donald Trump asked oil executives at a private dinner to contribute $1 billion to his presidential campaign because, he told them, they would save at least that much when he erased regulations governing fossil fuels. She also reported that Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, had privately urged the White House to reverse a scientific finding that underpins the government’s authority to regulate climate pollution. Recently, she broke the news that a 30-year veteran from the agency that manages all federal lands was physically removed from his office because he was resisting Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency operation.
While she churns out daily news, Maxine also finds ways to illuminate how policies written in Washington and state capitals matter to Americans. She went to coal country in West Virginia to write about a decision by the Trump administration to decimate the program that provides free examinations for black lung disease, which affects 20 percent of longtime coal miners. Shortly after her story published, the administration reinstated the workers.
Before The Post, Maxine spent four years covering climate and transportation at E&E News, an environmental trade publication owned by Politico. She got her start in journalism as an intern at Forbes. She is a graduate of Brown University.
Maxine will be based in Washington. Her first day is June 23. Please welcome her.
