FORA.tv Speaker - Jeffrey Ball

Jeffrey Ball is the Environmental News Editor for The Wall Street Journal. 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, where 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.