Energy transition reporter
Robert Zullo is a national energy reporter based in southern Illinois focusing on renewable power and the electric grid. Robert joined States Newsroom in 2018 as the founding editor of the Virginia Mercury. Before that, he spent 13 years as a reporter and editor at newspapers in Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Louisiana. He has a bachelor’s degree from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. He grew up in Miami, Fla., and central New Jersey.
Whale deaths are emboldening critics of offshore wind developments.
A federal task force wrestled with the costs and benefits of better shielding the nation’s tens of thousands of electric substations from a growing…
Achieving the aggressive offshore wind power goals of the federal government and individual states will require billions of dollars in spending on transmission infrastructure,…
A nationwide comparison of electric utility performance by an Illinois consumer advocacy group found that customers in states that are heavily reliant on fuel…
The number of people working in EPA’s civil enforcement program has fallen from 3,294 in 2012 to 2,253 in 2022.
Attacks show that physical security must be considered as well as cyber security, federal regulatory chief says.
Currently, Md. utilities provide data to the Public Service Commission.
The U.S. Department of Energy is looking to dole out $7 billion from last year’s bipartisan infrastructure law.
For years, electric vehicles posed something of a chicken-and-egg problem. Mass adoption, seen as critical to cutting the largest single source of U.S. carbon…
In the wake of major coal ash spills from power plant containment ponds in Tennessee and into the Dan River along the North Carolina and Virginia border, the…