IN THE COMING WEEKS, Monterey County will be publishing a geo-located visualization map of all the verifiable data collected in and around the Vistra Moss Landing Battery facility since a massive Jan. 16 battery fire there resulted in environmental and public health concerns. 

In a Wednesday public briefing, Ricardo Encarnacion, Monterey County’s director of environmental health, also announced that a new round of testing will be done by the California Department of Toxic Substances Control in response to public concerns. That data will also be included on the interactive map.  

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.