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Ben Wolfgang

Ben Wolfgang

bwolfgang@washingtontimes.com

Ben Wolfgang is a national security correspondent at The Washington Times, a senior member of its Threat Status team, and the host and producer of the award-winning Threat Status Podcast. Ben covers national security, foreign policy, military affairs, the defense industry and the rapidly evolving landscape of military technology.
A Pennsylvania native, he joined The Washington Times in 2011 after serving as a political reporter at The Republican-Herald in Pottsville, Pa. Over the course of his career, Ben has covered the White House, Congress, and four presidential campaigns.
His reporting has earned recognition from some of journalism's most respected organizations, including the Virginia Press Association and the Society of Professional Journalists' Washington, D.C. Chapter, among other honors.
Ben has interviewed heads of state, chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, senior military commanders, cabinet secretaries, senior government officials, and the CEOs of many of the nation's largest and most influential defense companies.
Ben is a frequent guest on broadcast media, with appearances on C-SPAN, the Sirius XM POTUS channel, and other outlets.
He can be reached at bwolfgang@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Ben Wolfgang

Companies that offer higher ethanol blends can sell renewable identification numbers to those that provide only E0 gasoline to help them comply with the Environmental Protection Agency's fuel requirement of a 10 percent average. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Ethanol-free fuel demand grows

Ethanol's rise over the past decade has given birth to an under-the-radar market: Americans who are willing to travel miles out of their way and pay significantly more per gallon for ethanol-free fuel.

April 25, 2017
Remote Alaskan villages, including King Cove, rely on air travel for access to major hospitals. (Associated Press/File)

Ryan Zinke revives Alaska’s King Cove road project killed under Obama

President Trump's Interior Department plans a fresh look at shelved plans to build a single-lane gravel road to King Cove, Alaska, breathing new life into a decades-long debate that has pitted the isolated community seeking a link to the outside world against environmentalists who say the project would wreak havoc on a federal wildlife refuge.

April 13, 2017
Chinese President Xi Jinping, joined by Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang, right, speaks during a bilateral meeting with President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, Friday, April 7, 2017, in Palm Beach, Fla. Trump was meeting again with Jinping Friday, with U.S. missile strikes on Syria adding weight to his threat to act unilaterally against the nuclear weapons program of China's ally, North Korea. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

China may take lead on fighting climate change

With climate change seemingly absent from the agenda, the weekend meeting between President Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping underscored that the U.S. has all but abandoned its status as the international leader on global warming and ceded that position to China.

April 9, 2017
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks to employees of the EPA in Washington on Feb. 21, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Climate change rules rollback by Trump has Democrat AGs vowing lawsuits

Democratic attorneys general eager to defend the Obama administration's climate change policies are vowing a flurry of lawsuits to stop President Trump's regulatory rollback -- moves analysts say face an uphill legal battle and are unlikely to secure the same kinds of victories Republicans racked up over the last eight years.

April 5, 2017