Catherine Boudreau
Catherine Boudreau is a senior reporter at Latitude Media. She’s spent a decade covering, energy, climate and agriculture issues at the intersection of business and policy. Her stories have taken her from a solar manufacturing plant in rural Georgia to global climate summits in Egypt and Dubai.
Catherine was previously a senior sustainability reporter at Business Insider, focusing on how climate change and the energy transition affect the economy. Before that, she worked at POLITICO, where she launched a newsletter on corporate climate accountability. She received a James Beard Award for an investigation into federal nutrition research. Her reporting has also been featured on CBS News, WAMU’s 1A, WBUR’s On Point, Marketplace, and C-SPAN.
Catherine is a native Vermonter and carries pure maple syrup to her favorite brunch spots in D.C., her current home. Contact Catherine at catherine@latitudemedia.com or on Signal at @cboudreau.37.
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What Andy Burnham’s transit experience will mean for UK energy
Following a shakeup in Labour party leadership, Burnham is pushing public control of utilities as a fix for energy affordability.
Catherine BoudreauJun 22, 2026 -
DOE to reinstate 11 clean energy grants canceled in ‘blue states’
The settlement marks the second major court defeat for the Energy Department.
Catherine BoudreauJun 11, 2026 -
Amazon — finally — reports its annual water use at data centers
The disclosure comes as communities demand more transparency over water and power use by AI data centers.
Catherine BoudreauJun 11, 2026 -
Qcells begins Georgia solar cell production to boost US supply chain
The Cartersville plant is a milestone for domestic clean energy as developers rush to beat upcoming tax deadlines.
Catherine BoudreauJun 9, 2026 -
Watchdog finds DOE may have broken the law by shifting energy funding
GAO said the agency put quadruple the money that Congress appropriated toward geothermal, while slashing funds for solar and wind.
Catherine BoudreauJun 5, 2026 -
The winding path to Oklahoma’s first utility-led battery projects
Regulators rejected the attorney general and fossil fuel lobby’s attempt to block storage — but local opposition remains a hurdle.
Catherine BoudreauJun 3, 2026 -
Data center water use can be a ‘black box.’ Google aims to change that
Most hyperscalers are secretive about their data centers’ water use, fueling local opposition
Catherine BoudreauJun 3, 2026 -
How AI ‘neoclouds’ are reshaping the grid
A new breed of tech infrastructure companies is gobbling up chips — and power infrastructure.
Catherine BoudreauMay 29, 2026 -
DOE advances talks to fuel advanced nuclear reactors with old plutonium
The Trump administration is in “advanced negotiations” to turn Cold War-era weapons liabilities into reactor fuel.
Catherine BoudreauMay 26, 2026 -
Just a few projects are driving a small bump in hydrogen investment
A 27% quarterly bump masks deeper industry woes, including $9 billion in green hydrogen cancellations since 2018.
Catherine BoudreauMay 20, 2026
