Philip Salata is an investigative reporter covering environment, energy and public health at inewsource, a non-profit accountability news platform. Salata was a USC Annenberg Fellow, where he won the Director’s Award for Excellence, and he also was a UC Berkeley California Local Reporting Fellow. He has reported on equity and social justice issues in Southern California, with a focus on community stories related to the green energy transition. Salata’s California Health Equity Fellowship project explored challenges with health care delivery in Imperial County where residents routinely go to Mexico for specialty care. Plans are developing there to build the nation's largest lithium battery factory. Experts say the development will take a substantial toll on an already impacted health care system.

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