Naveena Sadasivam
@naveenasadasivam.bsky.social
Writer and editor at Grist
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Yesterday: Feeding Texas estimates that its 20 member banks have lost a total of $57.6 million in federal funding cuts, and that’s only in immediate canceled funding. But this could actually be on the low end of the potential impact range.
Trump’s Federal Cuts Are Hitting Texas Food Banks Hard
Food pantries in the Lone Star State have lost over $50 million in funding this year, with more projected cuts to come.
www.texasobserver.org
October 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Yesterday: Feeding Texas estimates that its 20 member banks have lost a total of $57.6 million in federal funding cuts, and that’s only in immediate canceled funding. But this could actually be on the low end of the potential impact range.
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Excellent reporting from @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social on post-disaster contractor scams grist.org/extreme-weat... "More than a third of people impacted by a disaster report experiencing fraud...contractor fraud has become a lucrative business."
First came the wildfire. Then came the scams.
As extreme weather becomes more frequent, so too have post-disaster contractor scams like excessive billing and shoddy repairs.
grist.org
September 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Excellent reporting from @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social on post-disaster contractor scams grist.org/extreme-weat... "More than a third of people impacted by a disaster report experiencing fraud...contractor fraud has become a lucrative business."
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For @theopennotebook.bsky.social, I wrote about what to do when people don't call you back. To investigate secretive subjects, reporters can make creative use of public documents: lawsuits, corporate filings, government databases, social media, and much more. www.theopennotebook.com/2025/08/12/h...
Hidden in Plain Sight: Using Public Documents to Report on Elusive Stories - The Open Notebook
People, companies, and government agencies don’t always return your phone calls. To investigate secretive subjects, reporters can make creative use of documents that are out in the open. Lawsuits, Ins...
www.theopennotebook.com
August 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
For @theopennotebook.bsky.social, I wrote about what to do when people don't call you back. To investigate secretive subjects, reporters can make creative use of public documents: lawsuits, corporate filings, government databases, social media, and much more. www.theopennotebook.com/2025/08/12/h...
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Trump’s EPA announcements on power plant pollution rollbacks inadvertently made the case for voting against the big budget bill, @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social writes. grist.org/regulation/t...
Trump’s EPA accidentally made the case against passing the Big Beautiful Bill
GOP leaders claim that repealing pollution rules and tax breaks for renewables will fuel an energy boom. Experts say the opposite.
grist.org
June 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Trump’s EPA announcements on power plant pollution rollbacks inadvertently made the case for voting against the big budget bill, @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social writes. grist.org/regulation/t...
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The EPA just withdrew a complaint against a major Trump donor -- GEO Group, which runs ICE detention facilities. The company was spraying a disinfectant without proper protection onto beds and into *microwaves*; detainees reported skin rashes + difficulty breathing www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
EPA Drops Legal Case Against the GEO Group, a Major Trump Donor, Over Its Misuse of Harmful Chemicals in ICE Facilities
A complaint filed under the Biden administration alleged that on more than 1,000 occasions in 2022 and 2023, the GEO Group had its employees use the disinfectant, which causes irreversible eye damage ...
www.propublica.org
June 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The EPA just withdrew a complaint against a major Trump donor -- GEO Group, which runs ICE detention facilities. The company was spraying a disinfectant without proper protection onto beds and into *microwaves*; detainees reported skin rashes + difficulty breathing www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
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Join us for a conversation with @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social , Tricia Cortez, & Ruth Santiago, on the warehouses across the US that are leaking ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing chemical.
www.eventbrite.com/e/telling-yo...
#Event #Environment #Cancer #Bospoli #Climate
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#Event #Environment #Cancer #Bospoli #Climate
May 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Join us for a conversation with @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social , Tricia Cortez, & Ruth Santiago, on the warehouses across the US that are leaking ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing chemical.
www.eventbrite.com/e/telling-yo...
#Event #Environment #Cancer #Bospoli #Climate
www.eventbrite.com/e/telling-yo...
#Event #Environment #Cancer #Bospoli #Climate
If you're a reporter or a community member interested in investigating the prevalence of ethylene oxide-emitting warehouses in your region, you may be interested in a webinar @grist.org is hosting on May 15. More details here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/telling-yo...
www.eventbrite.com/e/telling-yo...
Telling your community’s story: How to access data and report on EtO
Warehouses all over the country store products sterilized with a toxic gas. Join us to learn how to get more info and take action locally.
www.eventbrite.com
May 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
If you're a reporter or a community member interested in investigating the prevalence of ethylene oxide-emitting warehouses in your region, you may be interested in a webinar @grist.org is hosting on May 15. More details here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/telling-yo...
www.eventbrite.com/e/telling-yo...
Lost your federal job or funding? Tell us how cuts are impacting the environment, health, and safety of your community.
Fill out this form or reach out via Signal. We want to hear from you!
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grist.org/climate/lost...
Fill out this form or reach out via Signal. We want to hear from you!
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grist.org/climate/lost...
Federal workers outreach
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April 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Lost your federal job or funding? Tell us how cuts are impacting the environment, health, and safety of your community.
Fill out this form or reach out via Signal. We want to hear from you!
gristorg.typeform.com/to/DMmUpMhC
grist.org/climate/lost...
Fill out this form or reach out via Signal. We want to hear from you!
gristorg.typeform.com/to/DMmUpMhC
grist.org/climate/lost...
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ICYMI last week, some amazing (and frightening) reporting on warehouses leaking ethylene oxide. I got to work with @gristnews.bsky.social's video producer, Jesse Nichols, to build this scroll-linked animation showing how ethylene oxide off-gassing works, exposing folks to the toxic carcinogen.
April 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
ICYMI last week, some amazing (and frightening) reporting on warehouses leaking ethylene oxide. I got to work with @gristnews.bsky.social's video producer, Jesse Nichols, to build this scroll-linked animation showing how ethylene oxide off-gassing works, exposing folks to the toxic carcinogen.
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If you're interested in the code, check it out here: github.com/Grist-Data-D...
A huge credit to Jesse for video production on this animation, as well as to the story's amazing reporters @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social and Lylla Younes!
A huge credit to Jesse for video production on this animation, as well as to the story's amazing reporters @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social and Lylla Younes!
GitHub - Grist-Data-Desk/eto-scroll-animation
Contribute to Grist-Data-Desk/eto-scroll-animation development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
If you're interested in the code, check it out here: github.com/Grist-Data-D...
A huge credit to Jesse for video production on this animation, as well as to the story's amazing reporters @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social and Lylla Younes!
A huge credit to Jesse for video production on this animation, as well as to the story's amazing reporters @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social and Lylla Younes!
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What's the future of science journalism in this anti-science era? @scifri.bsky.social is doing a LIVE SHOW about it next Tues., 4/29, in San Francisco. Join me, @ezraromero.bsky.social, and @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social for an amazing conversation. www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2025-...
Science Friday and the Future of Science Reporting
Radio and TV journalist Ira Flatow produced his first science stories back in 1970 during the inaugural Earth Day. Since then, he has worked for Emmy Award-winning science programs and covered science...
www.commonwealthclub.org
April 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
What's the future of science journalism in this anti-science era? @scifri.bsky.social is doing a LIVE SHOW about it next Tues., 4/29, in San Francisco. Join me, @ezraromero.bsky.social, and @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social for an amazing conversation. www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2025-...
If you're in the Bay Area, come hear us chat about the future of science reporting next Tuesday!
April 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
If you're in the Bay Area, come hear us chat about the future of science reporting next Tuesday!
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> “603,000 El Paso residents, about 90 percent of the city’s population, are exposed to a cancer risk above 1 in 1 million just from Cardinal Health’s two warehouses.” Great work from @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social and Lylla Younes
grist.org/health/ethyl...
grist.org/health/ethyl...
April 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
> “603,000 El Paso residents, about 90 percent of the city’s population, are exposed to a cancer risk above 1 in 1 million just from Cardinal Health’s two warehouses.” Great work from @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social and Lylla Younes
grist.org/health/ethyl...
grist.org/health/ethyl...
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Living in El Paso, I knew about device sterilization facilities. I didn't know their warehouses could be a greater risk.
From El Paso to Richmond, warehouses are leaking cancer-causing ethylene oxide.
@naveenasadasivam.bsky.social + Lylla Younes report:
elpasomatters.org/2025/04/16/e...
From El Paso to Richmond, warehouses are leaking cancer-causing ethylene oxide.
@naveenasadasivam.bsky.social + Lylla Younes report:
elpasomatters.org/2025/04/16/e...
The unregulated link in a toxic supply chain and how it impacts El Paso
From El Paso to Richmond, Virginia, warehouses are leaking ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing chemical. Almost no one knows about them.
elpasomatters.org
April 17, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Living in El Paso, I knew about device sterilization facilities. I didn't know their warehouses could be a greater risk.
From El Paso to Richmond, warehouses are leaking cancer-causing ethylene oxide.
@naveenasadasivam.bsky.social + Lylla Younes report:
elpasomatters.org/2025/04/16/e...
From El Paso to Richmond, warehouses are leaking cancer-causing ethylene oxide.
@naveenasadasivam.bsky.social + Lylla Younes report:
elpasomatters.org/2025/04/16/e...
After medical devices are sterilized with ethylene oxide, a toxic chemical, they're stored in warehouses. There they continue to off gas the chemical, putting workers and residents nearby at risk.
Two such warehouses are in El Paso. My latest with Lylla Younes:
grist.org/health/ethyl...
Two such warehouses are in El Paso. My latest with Lylla Younes:
grist.org/health/ethyl...
The unregulated link in a toxic supply chain
From El Paso, Texas to Richmond, Virginia, warehouses are leaking ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing chemical. Almost no one knows about them.
grist.org
April 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
After medical devices are sterilized with ethylene oxide, a toxic chemical, they're stored in warehouses. There they continue to off gas the chemical, putting workers and residents nearby at risk.
Two such warehouses are in El Paso. My latest with Lylla Younes:
grist.org/health/ethyl...
Two such warehouses are in El Paso. My latest with Lylla Younes:
grist.org/health/ethyl...
The USDA cut more than $1 billion in food aid. Ayurella Horn-Muller and I spoke with food banks and pantries that rely on the funding to distribute food. grist.org/food-and-agr...
‘Our people are hungry’: What federal food aid cuts mean in a warming world
The USDA’s decision to cut $1 billion worth of food aid is causing layoffs, supply shortfalls, and the end of donations at charitable groups across the country — all as hunger continues to climb.
grist.org
March 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The USDA cut more than $1 billion in food aid. Ayurella Horn-Muller and I spoke with food banks and pantries that rely on the funding to distribute food. grist.org/food-and-agr...
Amid plans to reverse a number of climate rules, the EPA is also shuttering its historic environmental justice office. Lylla Younes of @gristnews.bsky.social speaks to two former EPA staffers on what the closure means: grist.org/regulation/t...
The end of the EPA’s fight to protect overpolluted communities
Two former EPA staffers on what the closure of the agency’s environmental justice offices means for the country and the ‘irony’ of Trump’s agenda.
grist.org
March 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Amid plans to reverse a number of climate rules, the EPA is also shuttering its historic environmental justice office. Lylla Younes of @gristnews.bsky.social speaks to two former EPA staffers on what the closure means: grist.org/regulation/t...
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The Trump administration is planning to cancel its lease at a government laboratory in Hawaii, a site where scientists support key observations of surging greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, according to a list obtained by Democratic members of Congress and shared with The Post.
Trump moves to close facility that helps track planet-warming pollution
The lab is connected to the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists gather data to produce the Keeling Curve, a chart on the daily status of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The Trump administration is planning to cancel its lease at a government laboratory in Hawaii, a site where scientists support key observations of surging greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, according to a list obtained by Democratic members of Congress and shared with The Post.
Trump's EPA appointee Lee Zeldin has made a $20B green investment program the centre of his campaign to root out "fraud, waste, and abuse."
@gristnews.bsky.social's Jake Bittle has the story on the nonprofits suing to prevent the clawback. grist.org/politics/tru...
@gristnews.bsky.social's Jake Bittle has the story on the nonprofits suing to prevent the clawback. grist.org/politics/tru...
How Citibank got caught in a $20B climate fight
Nonprofits are suing the bank to save a federal green investment program.
grist.org
March 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Trump's EPA appointee Lee Zeldin has made a $20B green investment program the centre of his campaign to root out "fraud, waste, and abuse."
@gristnews.bsky.social's Jake Bittle has the story on the nonprofits suing to prevent the clawback. grist.org/politics/tru...
@gristnews.bsky.social's Jake Bittle has the story on the nonprofits suing to prevent the clawback. grist.org/politics/tru...
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Federal programs are a lifeline for farmers. Now many are questioning whether they can stay in business. Ayurella Horn-Muller and @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social report for @gristnews.bsky.social:
Slim margins, climate disasters, and Trump’s funding freeze: Life or death for many US farms
Federal programs are a lifeline for farmers. Now many are questioning whether they can stay in business.
buff.ly
March 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Federal programs are a lifeline for farmers. Now many are questioning whether they can stay in business. Ayurella Horn-Muller and @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social report for @gristnews.bsky.social:
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The Environmental Protection Agency has signaled that it will reverse the agency's 2009 declaration that greenhouse gases endanger human health. Grist.org reporter @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social spoke with us today about the implications of this move.
www.wnyc.org/story/trumps...
www.wnyc.org/story/trumps...
Trump's EPA Takes Aim at Climate Regulation | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYC
The EPA will reverse the finding that greenhouse gases endanger human health. Naveena Sadasivam, senior staff writer at Grist, explains what the "endangerment finding" has contributed.
www.wnyc.org
March 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The Environmental Protection Agency has signaled that it will reverse the agency's 2009 declaration that greenhouse gases endanger human health. Grist.org reporter @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social spoke with us today about the implications of this move.
www.wnyc.org/story/trumps...
www.wnyc.org/story/trumps...
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Today:
- @jessicamalaty.bsky.social on public health & RFK,
- @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social on climate and Trump's EPA,
- A 'Local Geography' newsquiz,
- @fordham.edu's Julie Suk on the Equal Rights Amendment,
- @thepointsguy.com on navigating travel SNAFUs
Live at 10 on 93.9 FM, AM820 or @WNYC.org
- @jessicamalaty.bsky.social on public health & RFK,
- @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social on climate and Trump's EPA,
- A 'Local Geography' newsquiz,
- @fordham.edu's Julie Suk on the Equal Rights Amendment,
- @thepointsguy.com on navigating travel SNAFUs
Live at 10 on 93.9 FM, AM820 or @WNYC.org
March 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Today:
- @jessicamalaty.bsky.social on public health & RFK,
- @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social on climate and Trump's EPA,
- A 'Local Geography' newsquiz,
- @fordham.edu's Julie Suk on the Equal Rights Amendment,
- @thepointsguy.com on navigating travel SNAFUs
Live at 10 on 93.9 FM, AM820 or @WNYC.org
- @jessicamalaty.bsky.social on public health & RFK,
- @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social on climate and Trump's EPA,
- A 'Local Geography' newsquiz,
- @fordham.edu's Julie Suk on the Equal Rights Amendment,
- @thepointsguy.com on navigating travel SNAFUs
Live at 10 on 93.9 FM, AM820 or @WNYC.org
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Lee Zeldin is taking aim at the endangerment finding — a bedrock of US climate policy. The stakes here are high but Trump's EPA is going to have a difficult road.
@naveenasadasivam.bsky.social has the story @vox.com via @gristnews.bsky.social: www.vox.com/climate/4018...
@naveenasadasivam.bsky.social has the story @vox.com via @gristnews.bsky.social: www.vox.com/climate/4018...
Trump’s EPA wants to undo the Roe v. Wade of climate policy
EPA chief Lee Zeldin wants to demolish the bedrock of greenhouse gas regulation. It won’t be easy.
www.vox.com
February 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Lee Zeldin is taking aim at the endangerment finding — a bedrock of US climate policy. The stakes here are high but Trump's EPA is going to have a difficult road.
@naveenasadasivam.bsky.social has the story @vox.com via @gristnews.bsky.social: www.vox.com/climate/4018...
@naveenasadasivam.bsky.social has the story @vox.com via @gristnews.bsky.social: www.vox.com/climate/4018...
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ICYMI, last week we published an interactive map of more than $300 billion worth of Inflation Reduction Act and bipartisan infrastructure law funding. Enter your ZIP code or city and a search radius and find projects in your area:
grist.org/accountabili...
grist.org/accountabili...
Where did billions in climate and infrastructure funding go? Search our map by ZIP code.
From clean energy projects to bridges, this interactive tool shows what projects lawmakers announced in your neighborhood.
grist.org
February 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
ICYMI, last week we published an interactive map of more than $300 billion worth of Inflation Reduction Act and bipartisan infrastructure law funding. Enter your ZIP code or city and a search radius and find projects in your area:
grist.org/accountabili...
grist.org/accountabili...
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“Overnight, our operations were paralyzed." - Director of a New Orleans tree planting group that lost $3.5 million after Trump's climate funding freeze. www.wwno.org/coastal-desk...
New Orleans’ big push to restore trees lost to Katrina derailed by Trump spending freeze
A sudden surge in tree planting across New Orleans has come to an even more sudden halt.
www.wwno.org
February 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
“Overnight, our operations were paralyzed." - Director of a New Orleans tree planting group that lost $3.5 million after Trump's climate funding freeze. www.wwno.org/coastal-desk...