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Naveena Sadasivam is a senior staff writer covering the environment, energy and climate change at Grist. She previously covered environmental issues at the Texas Observer, InsideClimate News and ProPublica. At ProPublica, she was part of a team that reported on the water woes of the West, a project that was a 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist for national reporting. She has a degree in chemical engineering and a master’s in environmental and science reporting from New York University and was a 2017 Ida B. Wells fellow at Type Investigations. You can contact her at [email protected] and follow her work on Twitter.
Despite court orders to release federal grants, many organizations working on climate projects still don't have access to contractually obligated money.
The Earthworks report is also the first analysis to identify what could constitute widespread illegal flaring in Texas oil fields.
The Permian Basin is ground zero for a billion-dollar surge of zombie oil wells.
Budget cuts and long term disinvestment in local environmental agencies have hobbled the states’ ability to oversee fracking.
One Texas oil and gas company left the state responsible for almost $10 million after its 2019 bankruptcy.
Hint: It's not about trains. “The most important climate election in the nation” may be at stake.
Texas facilities emitted 174 million pounds of pollution above permitted limits last year.
Will Michael Honeycutt’s legacy as an “honest broker” at the EPA be undercut by his efforts to weaken cancer protections in Texas?
Even as the agency reduced enforcement, it continued processing permits that allow businesses to pollute up to certain limits at about the same rate that it did last year.
