I'm a writer and award-winning senior reporter at HuffPost, where I have spent much of the past decade covering what I consider the economic story of the century: decarbonization. After starting my career as a business reporter, I turned my attention to sustainability issues in 2015. As I wrote about corporate climate pledges, I began reading peer-reviewed papers and interviewing scientists to figure out the right context to give readers. It became immediately clear to me that this story was much bigger than companies' clean energy targets. My reporting tracked the Environmental Protection Agency's avalanche of Trump-era scandals and exposed the industry groups and operatives behind efforts to stymie climate policy. I have tried to explore the energy transition with nuance, challenging prevailing narratives on climate solutions and spotlighting the price working-class people in places like Mississippi and Puerto Rico pay for policies written in faraway capitals. I have also filed dispatches from around the world, from the Brazilian Amazon to Greenland’s ice sheet, China’s first atom-smashing lab to the Netherlands’ only nuclear reactor.A fourth-generation New Yorker raised on Long Island, I now live in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, with my wife, Amanda Luz Henning Santiago. Contact me via my website: www.alexanderckaufman.comSubscribe to my newsletter, where I send out my latest feature stories: kaufman.substack.com