Jeffrey Ball
Environmental News Editor
The Wall Street Journal
Jeffrey Ball covers the business of the environment for The Wall Street Journal and edits and contributes to the Journal's new blog on the subject, Environmental Capital.
He joined the Journal in 1996 as a reporter for the Southeast Journal, based in Atlanta. He moved in 1998 to the paper’s Detroit bureau, where he covered the auto industry as well as environmental issues affecting it and other sectors.
In 2004, Ball moved to the paper’s Dallas bureau. There, he covered the oil industry and has continued to write about environmental matters with a deepening focus on the viability of various efforts to address global warming by changing the way the world consumes fossil fuels.
His reporting, which has taken him to Europe, South America and Africa, has sought to assess what it would take to roll out those efforts on a scale that would be both economically plausible and environmentally meaningful. Ball graduated cum laude from Yale University, where he majored in history and was editor-in-chief of the Yale Daily News. Before coming to the Journal, he worked for the Corpus Christi (TX) Caller-Times and the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer. He lives in Dallas with his wife and two young daughters.