I’m an independent journalist and a current McGraw Fellow at CUNY’s Craig Newmark School of Journalism. My reporting and writing is mostly focused on the science and politics of climate change, energy, health, and technology. I’ve written for a range of outlets including The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Undark Magazine, Yale Environment 360, Seven Days, MIT Technology Review, and Slate.

My first book Fire and Ice: Soot, Solidarity, and Survival on the Roof of the World was published in 2015 by St. Martin’s Press. As a 2020-2021 Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow, I reported on the political, legal and grassroots battles over new methane (aka natural gas) infrastructure and its implications for the global climate, local economies and the clean energy transition. That work led in winding fashion to my book Gaslight: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Fight for America’s Energy Future (Island Press, 2024), winner of the 2025 Reed Environmental Writing Book Award, finalist for the NYPL Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, and first honorable mention for the Society of Environmental Journalists’ Rachel Carson Book Award. I’m also a former Middlebury Fellow in Environmental Journalism and a graduate of UC Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group. In a past life, I was a frequent volunteer instructor at the Zanskar Ski School, the first backcountry ski school in the Himalaya, and the Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL).

I live in Vermont, where I subsist mostly on yoghurt and maple syrup and spend my free time stacking wood and picking up Magna-Tiles.

You can find me on Bluesky at: @jmingle.bsky.social

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