Politico energy reporter Bermel departs

Politico’s Colby Bermel, energy reporter in California — December 13, 2019 at Politico HQ in Arlington, Virginia. (M. Scott Mahaskey/Politico)

Colby Bermel, an energy and environment reporter for Politico California, has left the news organization.

He has been chronicling climate change in the world’s fifth-largest economy. He is a 2022 fellow at the Clean Energy Leadership Institute, an Oakland-based nonprofit organization training young professionals across the energy economy.

Bermel is also an alumnus of Columbia University’s Energy Journalism Initiative and the University of Texas’ Energy Journalism Workshop.

Before joining Politico in January 2019, when its Sacramento bureau launched, he covered the Southeast energy industry for S&P Global and chemical safety regulation for E&E News.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.