Uber is defending its CEO’s collaboration with the president, while Lyft is making a play to be the ride-hailing app of the resistance.
Katharine Mieszkowski
Senior Reporter and Producer
Katharine Mieszkowski is a senior reporter and producer for Reveal. She's also been a senior writer for Salon and Fast Company. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Slate and on NPR's "All Things Considered."
Her coverage has won national awards, including the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award two years in a row, an Online News Association Award, a Webby Award and a Society of Environmental Journalists Award. Mieszkowski has a bachelor's degree from Yale University. She is based in Reveal's Emeryville, California, office.
Posted inClimate Change, Environment, The Secrets of the Drought
This California lawmaker wants to name and shame ‘The Wet Princes’
State Sen. Jerry Hill wants California to smack its biggest water users with hefty fines and bad publicity.
Posted inFood Security
Keep this handy: A safer chicken cheat sheet
Here’s a handy list of tips to help keep you safe from salmonella in your chicken.
Posted inFood Security
Playing chicken with salmonella: A journey in photos
Follow chickens through their life cycle and see where the dangers of salmonella contamination come into play.
Posted inEnvironment, The Secrets of the Drought
Ranchers denied the drought while collecting drought subsidies
By denying the severity of the drought, Nevada ranchers fought to reopen public lands that had been closed to grazing. But some of these same ranchers have collected drought subsidies from the government.
Posted inEnvironment, Food Security
10 things to know before you eat your next chicken dinner
If you want to eat chicken in the U.S., salmonella is a risk you have to live with. It’s one that’s getting more prominent, too. Antibiotic-resistant
Posted inEnvironment, The Secrets of the Drought
Rancho Santa Fe guzzler tops drought hall of shame
Move over, Wet Prince of Bel Air. California has a new top residential water guzzler. Someone in Rancho Santa Fe, California, used 13.8 million gallons of water during the year ending Sept. 30, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune, enough for 110 typical homes.
Posted inEnvironment, The Secrets of the Drought
Add Giants pitcher Matt Cain to the list of water guzzlers
A former Golden State Warrior and a former Safeway CEO also made the latest list of excessive water users released by the East Bay Municipal Utility District.
Posted inEnvironment, The Secrets of the Drought
Beverly Hills, home to major water users, fined for conservation fail
While secret water guzzlers in Beverly Hills aren’t paying fines, the city is now facing one.
Posted inEnvironment, The Secrets of the Drought
Billy Beane is ‘displeased and embarrassed’ by his water use
Oakland A’s executive Billy Beane, who had been publicly shamed for pumping 6,000 gallons of water per day at his home, blamed leaky irrigation pipes for his excessive use.