Wendi Jonassen

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Wendi Jonassen covers environmental issues for Richmond Confidential. She has been published in Creative Loafing Atlanta, The San Francisco Bay Guardian and Sacramento News and Bee. Her undergraduate degree is in biology, highlighted by her field work with conservation projects. She wants to bring environmental and scientific issues into the public realm through communication. Send news tips and feedback to wendi.jonassen@richmondconfidential.org.

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Veolia hires and trains two Richmond residents in wastewater management

In an effort to build better a more amicable relationship with the community, Veolia, the...

Richmond’s Congressman George Miller discusses healthcare, crime, pollution, and food policy

Representative George Miller is an unabashedly left-leaning Democrat and Richmond’s congressional representative, who is currently...

Salmon are coming back to the bay

There is great news for fishermen and salmon lovers. This year’s projected salmon count in...

City council asking for a voluntary ban on controversial rodenticides

Last month, the Richmond City Council joined Berkeley and San Francisco in asking local businesses...

Sewage spill in Point Isabel last week no longer a hazard

After multiple spills from the city sewer system last Thursday and Saturday, residents began noticing...

Dangerous levels of DDT pollution in the Richmond Harbor

The Lauritzen Channel has more DDT in it than before the 1996 cleanup, and some...

Richmond comes in third in the state during the annual bird count

On a February weekend, Nick Despota and Nel Benningshof left their house in Richmond two...

Richmond needs a Buddhist: Urban Tilth’s Doria Robinson

Eighteen years ago, Doria Robinson, a third generation Richmond native, was studying Buddhism philosophy, and...

East Bay SPCA offers free and low cost spaying and neutering for World Spay Day

The East Bay Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, SPCA, is hosting a...

New documentary series highlights Richmond and Bay Area’s sustainable city planning

Ohio-based filmmaker Andres Torres showed highlights Saturday at the Rialto in El Cerrito from a...

FEMA’s levee standards may impose extra insurance on North Richmond residents

The North Richmond neighborhood hasn’t flooded since the Army Corps of Engineers erected levees decades...

Veolia will be leaving Richmond

After nine years of service, Veolia will began the process of terminating its 10-year contract...

Learning from the past to restore the present

Over the last century, as industry grew and the population exploded in Richmond, conflicts between...

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