Josh Voorhees

Voorhees earned a BA from Davidson College and an MPH from Johns Hopkins University. He briefly worked as a teacher in London, England before becoming a journalist.

One of his first beats was at E&E News, where he covered the auto industry.^[6] He later worked at Politico, where he wrote the Morning Energy newsletter,^[7] before joining Slate to launch the magazine's news and aggregation vertical. ^[8]

In 2013, he was named a fellow of the Kiplinger Program by Ohio State University,^[9] and in 2021, he was named a fellow at the Pulitzer Center.^[10] In 2009, The Hill named him one of the 50 most beautiful people of the year.^[6] His environmental reporting has appeared in a number of publications, including Mother Jones, Grist, Drilled, and HEATED.^{[11][12][13][14][15]}