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Evelyn Nieves

Reporter, San Francisco

Evelyn Nieves is a former staff writer for the New York Times, The Washington Post and The Associated Press.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra listens during a news conference on May 11, 2016, in Washington, D.C. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

In 2018, the California AG Created an Environmental Justice Bureau. It’s Become a Trendsetter

By Evelyn Nieves

"Black towns matter" painted on the street in Barrett, near Fred Barrett’s home. Credit: Spike Johnson

Environmental Justice Leaders Look for a Focus on Disproportionately Impacted Communities of Color

By Evelyn Nieves

California Gov. Gavin Newsom will soon appoint a replacement to the U.S. Senate for the remaining two years of Vice president-elect Kamala Harris's term. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Newsom’s Top Five Candidates for Kamala Harris’s Senate Seat All Have Climate in Their Bios

By Evelyn Nieves

The vineyards at the Somerston Estate Winery & Vineyards are seen amid California wildfires on Sept. 30, 2020 in St. Helena, California. Credit: Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times

Vintners and Farmers Are Breathing Easier After the Demise of Proposition 15, a ‘Headache’ at Best

By Evelyn Nieves

Luis Magaña, a long-time advocate for farmworkers' justice, spends much of his time doing outreach in the fields of the San Joaquin Valley. Courtesy of Luis Magaña

Luis Magaña Has Spent 20 Years Advocating for Farmworkers, But He’s Never Seen Anything Like This

By Evelyn Nieves

Ramón Cruz is the first Latino to serve as president of the Sierra Club in the 128-year history of the nation's largest environmental organization. Credit: International Transport Forum

Q&A: The Sierra Club Embraces Environmental Justice, Forcing a Difficult Internal Reckoning

By Evelyn Nieves

The San Luis Reservoir receives water from the San Joaquin-Sacramento River Delta. The water is pumped uphill into the reservoir and released to continue downstream along the California Aqueduct for farm irrigation and other uses. Credit: Melanie Stetson

Sparring Over a ‘Tiny Little Fish,’ a Legendary Biologist Calls President Trump ‘an Ignorant Bully’

By Evelyn Nieves

Valerie Leveroni Corral surveys medical cannabis plants from all over the world at one of WAMM Phytotherapies' gardens, cultivated at a former Boy Scout Camp in unincorporated Santa Cruz County. Credit: Evelyn Nieves/InsideClimate News

The Biggest Threat to Growing Marijuana in California Used to Be the Law. Now, it’s Climate Change

By Evelyn Nieves

Barn and windmill of a farm seen through a fence at sunrise in Ballena in California. Credit: Mickey Strider/Loop Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

California Farm Bureau Fears Improvements Like Barns, and Even Trees, Will Be Taxed Under Prop. 15

By Evelyn Nieves

The California sate capitol building is seen in Sacramento. Credit: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

The Grandson of a Farmworker Now Heads the California Assembly’s Committee on Agriculture

By Evelyn Nieves

Rob Sinskey stands in his backyard vineyard, where he is experimenting with growing varieties of wine grapes considered more drought tolerant and resistant to climate change. Credit: Evelyn Nieves/InsideClimate News

A Most ‘Sustainable’ Vineyard in a ‘Completely Unsustainable’ Year

By Evelyn Nieves

Agricultural workers from Bud Farms harvest celery on March 26, 2020 in Oxnard, California. Credit: Brent Stirton/Getty Images

States Are Doing What Big Government Won’t to Stop Climate Change, and Want Stimulus Funds to Help

By Evelyn Nieves, James Bruggers, Judy Fahys, Marianne Lavelle, Sabrina Shankman

A firefighter from Carpinteria monitors the huge plume from the out-of-control Apple fire along Bluff Street, north of Banning during the coronavirus pandemic on August 1, 2020 in Cherry Valley, California. Credit: Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times via Ge

The Fires May be in California, but the Smoke, and its Health Effects, Travel Across the Country

By Evelyn Nieves, Michael Kodas

A firetruck drives along a closed Interstate 80 as flames from the LNU Lightning Complex fire continue to spread in California on August 19, 2020.

‘Is This Real Life?’ A Wall of Fire Robs a Russian River Town of its Nonchalance

By Evelyn Nieves

Farm laborers harvest romaine lettuce on a machine with heavy plastic dividers that separate workers from each other on April 27, 2020 in Greenfield, California. Credit: Brent Stirton/Getty Images

As Covid-19 Surges, California Farmworkers Are Paying a High Price

By Evelyn Nieves

Cecelia Rojas, harvesting dinosaur kale, her largest crop. She used to pick strawberries as a farmworker, literally backbreaking work, but can take breathers these days.

Two Farmworkers Come Into Their Own, Escaping Low Pay, Rigid Hours and a High Risk of Covid-19

By Evelyn Nieves

Scott Magneson's California dairy farm has been in his family for generations.

A Proud California Dairy Farmer Battles for Survival in Wildly Uncertain Times

By Evelyn Nieves

Robert Bullard, often called “The Father of Environmental Justice”, has helped relaunch the disbanded Black Environmental Justice Network, which he co-founded in 1991. Credit: Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Q&A: A Pioneer of Environmental Justice Explains Why He Sees Reason for Optimism

By Evelyn Nieves

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