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| Owner | Politico |
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| Executive editor | Cyril T. Zaneski |
| Founded | 1998 |
| Headquarters | 1000 Wilson Blvd, 8th Floor[1] |
| City | Arlington, Virginia, U.S. |
| Website | www |
E&E News (branded asE&E News by POLITICO; also known asEnvironment and Energy Publishing) is an American news organization that coversenergy and theenvironment, as well as pertinentclimate andnatural resource policy news.[1] E&E News includes five publications:Climatewire,E&E Daily,Energywire,Greenwire, andE&E News PM.[2]
The organization was founded in 1998 and was acquired byPolitico in 2020. At the time, the organization employed over 65 staff reporters and editors located across the United States.[3] Since the acquisition,Politico has integrated E&E News into itsPolitico Pro platform;[4] select content from E&E News publications can be accessed through either the E&E News or Politico Pro websites.[a]
Environment and Energy Publishing was founded in 1998 by Kevin Braun and Michael Witt. The company launched with less than ten employees.[5][6] It was founded as aclipping service onCapitol Hill and later became a weeklynewsletter. It was takenonline by its founders in 2000. That year, their organization gained a group of subscribers when they boughtGreenwire from theNational Journal.[7]
In 2014, all E&E News content was locked behindpaywalls.[7] As of 2025, select articles are available for non-subscribers.[8]
As a nichetrade publication,[9] E&E targets institutions forsubscriptions, includingthink tanks, energy companies, non-governmental organizations, law firms, and government agencies.[7] Institutional subscribers include universities such as theUniversity of Iowa,[10]Indiana University,[11] and theUniversity of Washington.[12] In 2014, annual subscriptions cost between $2,000 and $150,000, depending on the range of products subscribed to, and E&E Publishing employed roughly 75 journalists in ten cities across the United States.[7]
In 2018, E&E News announced that Kevin Braun would be stepping down as editor-in-chief while remaining an owner and principal.Bloomberg gave Braun's resignation as an example of the#MeToo movement's effects.[13] Cy Zaneski was named as Braun's successor.[14]
In May of 2018, E&E News, along with theAssociated Press andCNN, was barred from a national summit on harmful water contaminants by theTrump administration'sEnvironmental Protection Agency.[15] In July 2020,The Hill reported that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had cancelled its subscription to E&E News.[16]
E&E News was acquired by newspaperPolitico in December 2020.[3][17] Terms of the deal were not disclosed.[18]Politico said it would keep the E&E News brand and its journalism in place.[19] As a property ofPolitico, E&E News has been bundled into Politico Pro, and an E&E subscription is now available as an addon to select Politico Pro packages.[20]
Until 2011, E&E News had a content-sharing partnership withThe New York Times.[21] Pieces from E&E'sClimatewire are sometimes republished byScientific American.[7]
As of 2025, the E&E News suite of publications consists of:[4]
The executive editor of E&E News is Cyril T. "Cy" Zaneski, as of 2025.[1]
In 2025,Politico stated that most subscribers to E&E News were in theprivate sector.[23]
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