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Steven Rodas

Reporter, California

Steven Rodas is an environmental and climate reporter for Inside Climate News based in Southern California. He previously reported on the environment in New Jersey, covering energy, pollution, wildlife and development. Steven’s work has appeared in several publications including NJ.com/The Star Ledger, hMAG, The Jersey Journal and The Hudson Reporter. He worked as a copywriter at Google. Steven has a master’s degree from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School Of Public Communications. He is fluent in English and Spanish (and welcomes your tips).

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A view of a methane digester at Straus Dairy Farm in Marshall, Calif. Credit: Scott Strazzante/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

USDA Extends Pause on Loans for Controversial Digesters That Turn Manure Into Biogas

By Steven Rodas, Lisa Sorg

Santa Paula resident Ethan Higbee walks the area where an oil spill took place six months earlier in Ventura County. He smells residue he worries is oil remains. Credit: Steven Rodas/Inside Climate News

Six Months After Oil Spilled Into California Tributary, Families Worry the Cleanup Was Never Finished

By Steven Rodas

Firefighters work to combat a hotspot in the hills while the Sandy Fire continues to burn near a residential area on Wednesday in Simi Valley, Calif. Credit: Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images

As Wildfire Grows Near Ex-Nuclear Site, California County Sets Up Radiation Air Monitors

By Steven Rodas, Nina Dietz

A Forest Service firefighter uses a torch kit during a prescribed burn on March 5, 2025, at Letts Lake near Stonyford, Calif., in the Mendocino National Forest. Credit: Susan Knight-Ashley/USDA Forest Service

Prescribed Burns and Forest Thinning Averted Millions of Tons of Emissions and Billions in Damages

By Steven Rodas

Firefighters monitor the Sandy Fire as it burns close to a residential area on Monday in Simi Valley, Calif. Credit: Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images

Wildfire Crews Race to Keep Fierce California Blaze From Former Nuclear Reactor Site

By Steven Rodas, Nina Dietz

People walk around downtown Los Angeles as smog fills the sky in 1958. Credit: Herald Examiner Collection/Los Angeles Public Library

Smog, Lies and Pineapples: How LA Cleaned up Its Air and What’s Left to Do

By Steven Rodas

A Los Angeles gas station on April 30, 2026. Californians are reckoning with surging gas prices—the highest nationwide according to data from the motor club, AAA. Gasoline prices have surged as the war in Iran continues. Credit: Steven Rodas/Inside Climate News

California Drivers Are Paying a More Than $6 a Gallon Price for the War in Iran

By Steven Rodas

Margie Padilla is worried that a proposed data center near her home in Imperial, Calif., will increase power and water costs for her family. Credit: Steven Rodas/Inside Climate News

California Will Soon Have More Than 300 Data Centers. Where Will They Get Their Water?

By Steven Rodas

Misty Cheng looks at flood damage to her home in Wrightwood, Calif., on Dec. 25, 2025. Credit: Eric Thayer/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

As Climate Disasters Create an Insurance Crisis, a California Bill Seeks to Make Fossil Fuel Companies Pay

By Steven Rodas

The Harris Cattle Ranch feedlot, located along Interstate 5, is the largest producer of beef in California and can produce 150 million pounds of beef a year. Nearly 100,000 head of cattle are spread over 800 acres at this former family-run cattle company, now owned by the Central Valley Meat Company based in Hanford, CA. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

Cancer Rates Are Higher Near Large Livestock Feeding Operations in 3 States, a New Study Finds

By Steven Rodas

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