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)

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.

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