Sarah Vogelsong is environment and energy reporter for the Virginia Mercury, a nonprofit news outlet focused on state-level policy in the States Newsroom network. She has spent over a decade in journalism and academic publishing and previously worked as a reporter for Chesapeake Bay Journal and the (Petersburg, Va.) Progress-Index and other publications. She has received top honors for explanatory reporting from the Society of Environmental Journalists and has twice been honored by the Virginia Press Association as Best in Show for online writing. She was chosen for the 2020 cohort of the Columbia Energy Journalism Initiative and is a graduate of the College of William and Mary.