Zack Budryk covers energy and environmental issues for The Hill, with an emphasis on the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation on social policy and extremism. He is also a co-author of The Hill’s Energy & Environment newsletter. A graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, his writing has appeared in CrimeReads, USA Today and The Washington Post. He received the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network’s 2021 Harriet McBryde Johnson Award for Nonfiction.