Before diving into coverage of water issues like infrastructure funding, drought and ecosystem restoration, Ariel wrote about transportation and defense for E&E News. She worked previously for The Standard-Times in New Bedford, Mass., where her coverage focused on the offshore wind industry and toxic waste. In 2013 and 2014 the New England Newspaper and Press Association awarded her first place in environmental reporting and second place in investigative reporting, respectively, for her coverage of the New Bedford Harbor Superfund site. She graduated from Brandeis University in 2011 with a degree in American studies.
Lawmakers sparred over whether states are doing enough to regulate wastewater from hydraulic fracturing during a hearing of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources yesterday.
Clean energy programs within the Department of Energy would see major increases under the fiscal 2020 Energy-Water Development spending bill unveiled by House Democratic appropriators today.
EPA officials met with lawyers involved in a key Clean Water Act case days before a petition was due to the Supreme Court.
The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources will review the water pollution impacts of oil and gas development Thursday.
A coalition of irrigation district groups is challenging California's updated wetlands regulations.