E&E News hires Richards to cover energy

Heather Richards

Heather Richards has been hired by E&E News to cover energy and the environment.

Richards is currently an energy reporter for the Casper Star-Tribune in Wyoming. She will be based in Washington for E&E News.

A native of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia, she moved to Wyoming in 2015 to cover natural resources and government in Buffalo for the Buffalo Bulletin. She joined the Star-Tribune later that year.

Richards is a graduate of Hunter College.

E&E produces Energywire, Greenwire, E&E Daily, Climatewire and E&E News PM.

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.