Articles by Senior Staff Writer Naveena Sadasivam
Naveena Sadasivam is an investigative journalist and editor at Grist covering the oil and gas industry and climate change. She previously worked at the Texas Observer, Inside Climate News, and ProPublica, and has won accolades from the Society of Environmental Journalists, Society of Professional Journalists, Online News Association, and the Radio Television Digital News Association. She is interested in stories about the fossil fuel industry, toxic chemicals, and environmental justice.
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![black and white photo of oil refinery, with binary text under photo on blue background]()
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Why the White House’s environmental justice tool is still disappointing advocates
New changes “ended up making the program less focused on people of color than it originally was,” one advocate said.
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![An illustration of the Oxbow refinery]()
![An illustration of the Oxbow refinery]()
How a Koch-owned chemical plant in Texas gamed the Clean Air Act
Oxbow Calcining spent years running from clean air rules. New evidence suggests it bent the law until it broke.
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![Billowing smoke from a derailed train]()
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The Ohio train derailment underscores the dangers of the plastics boom
As the petrochemical industry grows, the disaster is a reminder of the health and safety risks that accompany reliance on fossil fuels.
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![View of Hobart Bay off Stephens Passage in Tongass National Forest, Southeast Alaska, USA.]()
![View of Hobart Bay off Stephens Passage in Tongass National Forest, Southeast Alaska, USA.]()
Why Biden’s new protections don’t eliminate threats to the Tongass National Forest
The Agriculture Department just restored the so-called Roadless Rule, but federal land swaps could still open forest lands to logging.
