Mark Davis

Mark Davis is Senior Correspondent: Energy, Climate, and Resource Economics at Just Right News, where he covers the intersection of Power and the Planet with a focus on affordability, reliability, and practical environmental stewardship. Born September 11, 1974, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and now based in Boulder, Colorado, he brings a Southwestern sensibility to national debates: respect for scarce water, open landscapes, and the communities that keep the lights on. Mark grew up between desert trailheads and shop floors, learning early that energy is not an abstraction—it’s diesel in a tractor, a pump at a well, a line crew braving a snowstorm. Summers spent working outdoors across the Four Corners region introduced him to the hands who build and maintain the systems most people only notice when they fail. Drought years taught him that conservation is essential; brownout summers taught him that reliability is non-negotiable. Those experiences anchor his belief that good policy starts with physical reality and ends with whether families can pay their bills. Over the past two decades, Mark has reported from coal towns grappling with closure, gas fields navigating price swings, and wind and solar projects striving to connect to congested grids. He has walked turbine pads at dawn, ridden along with transmission crews surveying new rights-of-way, and sat at kitchen tables with ranchers weighing land use, habitat, and mineral rights. He is equally at home in a control room reviewing load curves as he is in a workshop talking torque wrenches with mechanics. That fieldwork informs a style of reporting that blends data with dirt-under-the-nails perspective. At Just Right News, Mark’s beat spans energy markets, climate policy, and resource economics. He tracks permitting reform, supply chains for critical minerals, water footprints of power generation, and the system-wide costs of intermittent resources. He translates complex models into plain English and tests political promises against engineering constraints and price signals. His guiding principles are straightforward: technology-neutral competition, rule of law, transparent accounting, and respect for the people whose livelihoods depend on energy production. He is skeptical of mandates that outpace infrastructure, and he highlights innovation that lowers emissions without sacrificing prosperity or grid stability. Mark’s Power and the Planet reporting examines trade-offs honestly—land use versus density, local air quality versus global metrics, resilience versus cost—and seeks solutions that scale in the real world. He is known for asking tough questions with civility, inviting both scientists and tradespeople into the conversation, and grounding every story in measurable outcomes. Readers turn to him for a steady hand during blackouts, storms, and price spikes, and for measured analysis when headlines run hot. Living in Boulder, Mark engages with a wide spectrum of viewpoints, believing that strong arguments welcome scrutiny. Off deadline, you might find him on a high-country trail or along a cold river, reminders that stewardship and human flourishing are not opposing goals. His mission at Just Right News is simple: follow the facts, respect the work, and tell the truth about how power really works.