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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Trump’s PJM intervention creates more questions than answers
The unprecedented move also highlights the tension between how tech companies and power regulators plan for the future.
Catherine BoudreauJan 16, 2026 -
Why Microsoft vowed to pay its own way for power-hungry data centers
The rising cost of living, including utility bills, has become a political flashpoint across party lines.
Catherine BoudreauJan 14, 2026 -
US emissions jumped in 2025 as more coal met power demand
Utilities burned more coal to meet electricity demands from data centers and heating homes.
Catherine BoudreauJan 13, 2026 -
Meta strikes 6.6 GW nuclear deal to fuel its AI ‘supercluster’
The deals with Vistra, Oklo, and TerraPower reflect come as the hyperscaler race for firm power heats up.
Catherine BoudreauJan 9, 2026 -
Dominion to Trump: Blocking Virginia offshore wind undercuts data center growth
The utility said its Virginia offshore wind project would supply 2.6 GW to “the largest cluster of data centers in the world.”
Catherine BoudreauJan 8, 2026 -
White House, private sector ‘closely looking’ at Venezuelan critical minerals
But given practical hurdles and huge political risk, experts say U.S. access to the deposits is likely a pipe dream.
Catherine BoudreauJan 7, 2026 -
Three major risks slowing the $3T data center boom
JLL reports that 200 GW of global capacity are planned by 2030, but delays are ramping up.
Catherine BoudreauJan 6, 2026 -
The great electron race
As load growth forecasts balloon, the “speed-to-power drive” has transformed the energy transition.
Catherine BoudreauJan 5, 2026 -
House passes SPEED Act, a first step toward broader permitting reform
Last-minute changes by Trump-aligned Republicans diluted permit certainty provisions.
Catherine BoudreauDec 18, 2025 -
Trump Media’s bizarre fusion play for TAE Technologies
The $6 billion merger is a bet on the unproven technology as a fix for the AI power crunch.
Catherine BoudreauDec 18, 2025
