Mark Eddy has worked on energy issues for more than 25 years – first as a reporter at The Denver Post covering traditional and renewable energy and for the last 16 years in the private sector.
Mark is owner of Mark Eddy Communications, a strategic planning communications/messaging and public will-building firm specializing in public policy issues. MEC has worked with foundations and non-profit groups, city and state governments and for-profit companies ranging from a two-person disability rights law firm to an $18-billion multinational corporation.
While MEC has worked on issues as varied as oil and gas, health, K-12 education, LGBTQ, consumer protection, homelessness and marijuana the core of the business is built around renewable energy and climate policy, cutting carbon pollution and helping to ensure science has a respected role in making public policy. Mark worked with a diverse team to help Colorado enact first-in-the-nation rules regarding methane emissions and he is currently part of a team that is working with regulators, businesses, public utilities and their customers to put more wind and solar energy onto the grid.
Mark moved to Colorado in 1985 after working on an off-shore oil rig in California. He grew up in Kansas and graduated with a degree in journalism and mass communications from Kansas State University.
After graduating, Mark took three months off to take a 3,000-mile, unsupported bicycle trip from Manhattan, Kan. to San Francisco. He then worked at a small paper in Kansas, The Denver Post on a temporary basis, moved to California and worked off-shore oil rig, then returned to Colorado and The Post in 1985. He remained there until 2000 when he went to work for a political consulting firm. A year later he started Mark Eddy Communications.
As a journalist, Mark did investigative work on the construction of Denver International Airport and the Oklahoma City bombing. He covered city government, education and the environment and energy and was part of The Denver Post team that was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the Columbine tragedy.
Mark continues to write and was a contributor to “How the West was Warmed.” He is a beekeeper, likes to ride his bike, fly fish, hike, camp and ski. Mark also helped start a non-profit that is building schools in Tanzania and serves on its board.