Julia Tilton is a multimedia journalist focused on energy and climate change. Her byline has appeared in a host of outlets in the U.S. and Mexico, including The Boston Globe, Canary Media, Grist, The Oregonian and The Yucatán Times. She currently covers energy topics in rural communities for the Daily Yonder. She also contributes to the Maine Monitor's climate newsletter and the IEEE Spectrum.Julia got her start in media at NASA, interning on the agency's Curious Universe podcast just outside of Washington, D.C. She has a bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University in Earth and Environmental Sciences and Spanish. Her reporting has taken her from the fast-eroding beaches of southwest Washington state to a canoe on the Hudson River. She is based in Maine.
IEEE Spectrum
Could This Fuel Cell Tech Help Scale Green Hydrogen?
Grist
Closures of EPA’s Regional Environmental Justice Offices Will Hurt Rural America
The Maine Monitor
Future of Maine’s electric vehicle charging network in limbo as federal changes loom
The Boston Globe
Rural New England needs EV chargers. The Trump administration is making it harder to build them.
Puerto Rico’s Solar Microgrids Power Through Blackout, IEEE Spectrum, May 2025
Can seaweed be organic?, Maine Monitor, May 2025
Uncertainty Around USDA’s Rural Development Funding Continues Amidst Staffing Cuts and Office Closures, Daily Yonder, April 2025
What’s behind that organic label?, Maine Monitor, March 2025
Farmers Still Owed Hundreds of Millions in REAP Payments After Federal Freeze, Daily Yonder, March 2025
More than a year after devastating storms, communities shift to resilience, Maine Monitor, March 2025
National Energy Emergency: What Trump’s Energy Policy Means for Rural America, Daily Yonder, Jan. 2025
This Year, Investment in Rural Votes Isn’t Just at the Top of the Ticket, Daily Yonder, Oct. 2024
What Would a Stronger Democracy Look Like in Rural America?, Daily Yonder, Sept. 2024
Breaching the Floodgates: Industrial Tourism Takes Hold of Antarctica, Currents, Aug. 2024
The Arctic is Getting Rainier, NASA's Earth Observatory, March 2024
How Teens Won Locally but Lost Globally on Climate in 2023, Watch Us Rise, Dec. 2023
Young, Indigenous Mexicans are Rewriting the Climate Playbook, Watch Us Rise, Nov. 2023
Campeche's First International Yoga Festival, The Yucatán Times, July 2023