Announcement from Announcement from Climate and Environment Editor Zachary Goldfarb, Climate and Environment Deputy Editor Juliet Eilperin and Climate and Environment Policy Editor Stuart Leavenworth:
We are pleased to announce that Darryl Fears will become our new senior environmental correspondent with a focus on environmental justice. In this role, Darryl will continue to lead The Post’s highly regarded work on environmental disparities and also help convene discussions across the newsroom on how we can advance our coverage of this subject.
Darryl recently returned from a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard, where he concentrated much of his studies on public planning, housing policy, urban design and environmental law to better understand how government decisions affect people across the country.
Before that, he was an essential reporter on several significant projects, including one on environmental justice that was a Pulitzer finalist in 2022 and the “2C: Beyond the Limit” series that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.
In the course of covering the environment for The Post since 2010, Darryl has also written extensively about the Chesapeake Bay watershed, wildlife, and the impact of oil and gas drilling off America’s coasts. As a member of the National staff, he played a key role in the 2006 award-winning series “Being a Black Man” and covered race, ethnicity and demographic change as well as immigration and criminal justice. Darryl arrived at The Post in 1999 as a general assignment reporter on the Metro staff.
Please congratulate Darryl on his promotion.
