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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