Mark  Jaffe covers energy and environment for the Colorado Sun. Previously he was an energy and environment reporter and editor for the Denver Post. Before coming to Colorado, he was a reporter for Bloomberg News on the energy and corporate finance desks in New York. He was a Paris correspondent for McGaw-Hill World focused on oil and petrochemicals and is the author of two books" "And No Bird Sing - A Trude ecological thriller set in a Tropical Paradise" and "The Gilded Dinosaur - The fossil war between E.D. Cope and O.C. Marsh and the rise of American Science."