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Washington Post hires WSJ reporter Puko

Tim Puko

Washington Post climate and environment editor Zachary Goldfarb and climate and environment deputy editor Juliet Eilperin sent out the following on Monday:

We are delighted to announce that Tim Puko will join The Post as a climate correspondent covering politics and policy.

In this key role, Tim will lead coverage of the Biden administration and write about how influential figures in Washington and around the world make decisions about climate and environmental policy.

Tim joins us from the Wall Street Journal, where he has been reporting on energy and climate policy in Washington since 2017. He has closely covered the nation’s oil lobby, greenhouse-gas regulations, and the geopolitics of oil and minerals. His memorable scoops have revealed behind-the-scenes fights between industry titans and Republican lawmakers, the Trump administration’s attempt to dismantle methane regulations, and the Biden administration’s struggles with energy security and high prices. Previously, he covered energy markets for the Journal in New York.

Tim has been reporting on energy and climate change for more than a decade, spending the first half of his career at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, where he chronicled how Marcellus Shale was changing his home state of Pennsylvania — before it changed the rest of the world. He was the paper’s reporter of the year in 2011 and a three-time winner of the Society of Professional Journalists’ award for environmental reporter of the year 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 being fully settled in Washington, he says he remains frustrated that there are no legitimate bowling alleys closer than Gaithersburg, and he’s 100 percent committed to over-clapping for the Steelers at every opportunity forever.

Please welcome Tim when he starts Oct. 31.

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.

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