Blanca Begert is a climate and energy reporter for the Los Angeles Times. She previously covered California environmental issues for Inside Climate News. Before that, she was a climate reporter for Politico and for Grist, and an environment editor and video producer for PBS SoCal. Begert is originally from Miami and has a master’s degree in environmental science from the Yale School of the Environment, where she studied forest management and conservation.
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