Chris D’Angelo

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Chris D’Angelo is an award-winning journalist who has covered climate change and environmental issues for more than a decade.

He recently co-founded Public Domain, an investigative Substack focused on public lands, wildlife and government. Previously, he spent nine years as a reporter at HuffPost, where he spearheaded the outlet’s coverage of public lands and environmental policy. His work has also appeared in Reuters, High Country News, Grist, Vox, Mother Jones and other outlets.

Prior to HuffPost, Chris spent several years writing for daily newspapers in Hawaii. He lives with his wife and their dog in southern Maine. When not reporting down a rabbit hole, he enjoys fly fishing and making sawdust in his shop.

Contact Chris via email: moc.l1752298517iamg@175229851768ole1752298517gnadm1752298517c1752298517

Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ is bad news for Maine clean energy

Two large solar projects in Maine have reportedly already been put on hold in anticipation of the bill’s passage.

ByChris D’Angelo

July 4, 2025

overlook of the water as seen from acadia national park.

What the public lands fight means for Maine

“It’s hard for me to understand how gutting ‘America’s best idea’ isn’t America’s worst idea,” said Sen. Angus King.

ByChris D’Angelo

June 13, 2025

Two AmeriCorps volunteers removing rose branches from a field.

AmeriCorps cuts threaten climate resilience, conservation across Maine

Forty-six AmeriCorps members were already working in Maine, and another 70 were scheduled to start last week — days after the termination went out.

ByChris D’Angelo

May 9, 2025

Flood waters surround a commercial building in Castine.

Sen. King fumes at climate change being nixed from annual threat assessment

For more than a decade, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence included the mounting impacts of climate change in its annual reports on threats to national security.

ByChris D’Angelo

April 4, 2025