June 2016 State of Texas, houston flooding, climate change

State of Texas: These Days, When it Rains it Pours

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A version of this story ran in the June 2016 issue.

June 2016 State of Texas, houston flooding, climate change
Joanna Wojtkowiak

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is a 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.

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