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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.
After visiting Houston over the weekend, House Financial Services Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) said he is more convinced than ever that the National Flood Insurance Program needs to be reformed.
Chesapeake Bay lawmakers are working to make sure that the final U.S. EPA spending bill for fiscal 2018 fully funds a pollution reduction program for the watershed.
The Army Corps of Engineers is warning residents of three Florida counties that Lake Okeechobee could overflow at construction sites along the Herbert Hoover Dike due to Hurricane Irma.
In anticipation of massive amounts of rainfall from Hurricane Irma, the Army Corps of Engineers has begun releasing water from Florida's Lake Okeechobee.
The federal flood insurance program would be extended until December under the Senate's Hurricane Harvey aid package, which would also nearly double relief funding from what the House passed yesterday.