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Ben Wolfgang

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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.

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FILE - In this March 14, 2014 file photo a layer of smog covers the city of Brussels. World leaders arrive at the global climate talks in Germany on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017 to give the negotiations a boost going into the final stretch. AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, file)

Greenhouse gas plan being worked out by Republicans, Democrats

Amid a raging debate about how the U.S. should approach climate change, Republicans and Democrats on a key Senate panel Wednesday sought common ground on the best ways to continue reducing the nation's greenhouse gas emissions through research, innovation and private-sector leadership.

November 15, 2017
California Gov. Jerry Brown talks during an interview with The Associated Press in Rome, Friday, Nov. 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) ** FILE **

Jerry Brown seems miserable at U.N. climate conference

California Gov. Jerry Brown is one of the most prominent American officials at this week's United Nations climate conference in Germany, but the 79-year-old Democrat doesn't seem to be having a good time.

November 13, 2017
Virginia Gov.-elect, Ralph Northam gestures during a news conference at the Capitol in Richmond, Va., Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017. Northam defeated Republican Ed Gillespie in Tuesday's election. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

After Northam win, Virginia set to unveil cap-and-trade plan

With the certainty that a Democrat will run the state for the next four years, Virginia next week is expected to unveil its own ambitious plan to cut greenhouse-gas emissions with a cap-and-trade proposal similar to the ones already in place across the Northeast.

November 10, 2017
In this Feb. 10, 2017, file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks during an interview with Yahoo News in Damascus, Syria. (SANA via AP, File)

Syria to sign Paris climate deal; U.S. now only holdout

President Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord has now officially left the U.S. standing alone on the global stage, with Syria, the only other holdout, declaring Tuesday it will join the deal and commit to reducing its own greenhouse gas emissions.

November 7, 2017
In this Sept. 21, 2017, photo, a sign on a door of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington. The EPA says it has recovered 517 containers of “unidentified, potentially hazardous material” from highly contaminated toxic waste sites in Texas that flooded last month during Hurricane Harvey. But the agency has not provided details about which Superfund sites the material came from, why the contaminants at issue have not been identified and whether there’s a threat to human health. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Senate panel narrowly approves two controversial EPA nominees

A Senate panel on Wednesday approved two controversial nominees for top jobs at the Environmental Protection Agency in highly contentious party-line votes, prompting Democrats to charge that whatever goodwill existed between the two sides is now gone.

October 25, 2017
In this Thursday, June 1, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks about the U.S. role in the Paris climate change accord in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Nicaragua signs Paris climate deal; U.S., Syria now only countries out

On the same day the U.S. and Syria became the final two holdouts in the landmark Paris climate pact, State Department officials deflected questions about rejoining the accord and placed the full burden of renegotiating more favorable terms squarely on President Trump's shoulders.

October 24, 2017
Under Trump administration policies, which are likely to spur much greater natural gas development, coal production is projected to be well under 600 million tons by 2020, according to an energy report. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump’s coal policies clash with market forces

Less than a year into his tenure, President Trump has dismantled much of his predecessor's environmental agenda and rolled back the regulatory war on coal -- but analysts still say coal's long-term future is bleak and that the administration's friendly policies toward natural gas could speed up the decline.

October 23, 2017
In this June 2, 2017, file photo, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt looks back after speaking to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Scott Pruitt has ‘epiphany,’ sides with ethanol industry in key policy fight

After heavy pressure from lawmakers and other stakeholders, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt on Thursday night sided with pro-ethanol lawmakers and said his agency will abandon many controversial changes to the nation's ethanol mandate -- prompting a top biofuels leader to claim that Mr. Pruitt apparently has had an "epiphany" over the past few days.

October 20, 2017