Amy Harder is the national energy correspondent for Axios and has been covering energy and climate for more than 15 years. Before (re)joining Axios in September 2025, Amy was the founding executive editor of Cipher News where she spent nearly four years leading a global team delivering solutions-focused journalism on climate and energy.<\/p>\n
Prior stints have been at Axios (shortly after its launch in 2017), The Wall Street Journal and National Journal.<\/p>\n
Amy is also the inaugural journalism fellow for the University of Chicago’s new Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth. In this non-resident role, Amy is the host of the Shocked podcast and moderate events on campus during the 2025-2026 school year. This role follows a similar role she had earlier in my career for the university’s Energy Policy Institute in the 2018-2019 school year.<\/p>\n
Amy has appeared on PBS NewsHour, CSPAN, MSNBC, CBS, and NPR, among many other media outlets. She is a regularly sought out to speak and participate in events, including moderating and participating in panel discussions, and giving speeches around the country and the world.<\/p>\n
She believes seeing energy infrastructure up close and interviewing people directly affected by it is paramount to ensure a well-rounded story. Amy has toured everything from an underground coal mine in West Virginia to a wind farm in Australia to a carbon capture facility in Norway. She has interviewed some of the most well-known leaders in this space, and at the same time, bridges the gap between what leaders say and what everyday people care about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"