

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Most ‘Sustainable’ Vineyard in a ‘Completely Unsustainable’ Year
By Evelyn Nieves

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

The Fires May be in California, but the Smoke, and its Health Effects, Travel Across the Country
By Evelyn Nieves, Michael Kodas

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

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

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

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