Until now, climate adaptation efforts for cities in Marin County have been an everyone-for-themselves system. On Tuesday, the county’s new chief climate officer will present to the Board of Supervisors a plan for a countywide approach to climate resilience.

Five years after a civil grand jury criticized the county for taking too long to establish a governance structure for countywide climate adaptation, the county has established a new sea level rise team under the office of the county executive.

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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.