Lisa Martine Jenkins
Lisa Martine Jenkins is Latitude Media’s editor. She was previously a reporter for Protocol and Morning Consult, and her work has appeared in Heatmap, The Guardian, and Civil Eats, among others. In 2017, she was the Overseas Press Club Foundation’s Stan Swinton Fellow, placed at The Associated Press in Mexico City. Earlier in her career, she worked in production for both the Marketplace Morning Report radio program and San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club.
Lisa has an M.A. from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, where she studied energy and environmental policy. While there, she conducted research on both rural electrification in Myanmar and the impact of sea level rise on nuclear spent fuel storage; the latter was published in Energy Policy. She has a B.A. from UC Berkeley.
She lives in Brooklyn, and is originally from the Bay Area. You can find more of her work at lisamartinejenkins.com.
Get in touch with Lisa at [email protected], or securely on Signal at lmj.5709.
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Avnos is embarking on ‘a year of commercialization’ for DAC
But it’s a complicated time to be among the new generation of direct air capture companies.
Lisa Martine JenkinsMar 24, 2025 -
US storage up 33% in 2024
Residential installations hit another record in the year’s fourth quarter.
Lisa Martine JenkinsMar 19, 2025 -
DOE calls back its fired probationary employees
In mid-February, roughly 1,000 staffers were let go. Exactly a month later, a court order is bringing them back.
Lisa Martine JenkinsMar 14, 2025 -
Crux launches debt capital marketplace
Exclusive: The company's platform is expanding — from tax credit transfers alone, to the entire clean energy capital stack.
Lisa Martine JenkinsMar 5, 2025 -
Tariff havoc begins, complicating energy supply chains
After a monthlong delay, new tariffs on Canada, China, and Mexico have taken effect.
Lisa Martine JenkinsMar 4, 2025 -
AES lays off 10% of its staff, despite emphasizing ‘strong demand’
The energy giant cited “current market conditions” as well as policy uncertainty on its fourth quarter earnings call.
Lisa Martine JenkinsMar 3, 2025 -
Engie’s pulled project highlights the worsening economics of gas
Due to “equipment procurement constraints,” the Perseus gas peaker plant is no longer in the running for a slice of the $5 billion Texas Energy Fund.
Lisa Martine JenkinsFeb 25, 2025 -
Why a federal prosecutor’s resignation leaves clean energy projects in limbo
Denise Cheung’s departure is a new twist in a standoff over managing climate funds under Trump.
Lisa Martine JenkinsFeb 21, 2025 -
Mass layoffs bring an end to DOE’s ‘weird, quiet limbo’
The Trump administration is laying off most probationary employees at the Department of Energy, sources confirmed to Latitude Media.
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Could Trump’s attempt to take down NOAA impact utilities?
Rhizome is a planning platform for the grid that relies on NOAA projections. But its CTO is worried that Trump 2.0 could cause problems.
Lisa Martine JenkinsFeb 13, 2025
