Caleigh Wells

Caleigh Wells

Host, TADCP, and Climate Reporter

Contact: caleigh.wells@kcrw.org | Website

Caleigh Wells covers the environment, climate, and public health as KCRW’s Healthy Communities Reporter. Since coming to KCRW in 2019, she has covered wildfire, drought, climate legislation, and environmental health and climate anxiety. Her work regularly appears on NPR and on Marketplace. She reported with The California Newsroom on an investigation into the US Forest Service’s fire mitigation work that won a national Murrow award this year. She was a fellow this year in the Solution Journalism Network’s first climate cohort, and was selected to serve on NPR’s high impact climate collaborative. She has spent her career covering climate change for public media, first interning for ideastream in Cleveland and later coming to KCRW from its crosstown rival, LAist.

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The California Energy Commission unanimously adopted a strategic plan to build the state’s offshore wind industry. Much of that will happen at the Port of Long Beach.

Offshore wind: California doubles down on climate plan

The California Energy Commission unanimously adopted a strategic plan to build the state’s offshore wind industry. Much of that will happen at the Port of Long Beach.

from KCRW Features

How do you get through the summer without air conditioning if you hate to sweat? Is toilet paper bad for the environment, and if so, what are you supposed to do about it?

Climate Pod Live on Stage

How do you get through the summer without air conditioning if you hate to sweat? Is toilet paper bad for the environment, and if so, what are you supposed to do about it?

from The Anti-Dread Climate Podcast

For State Farm customers facing canceled fire policies, the clock is ticking to find an alternative that doesn’t break the bank.

Scrambling CA homeowners consider ‘going without insurance’

For State Farm customers facing canceled fire policies, the clock is ticking to find an alternative that doesn’t break the bank.

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