Naveena Sadasivam

Naveena Sadasivam is a senior staff writer at Grist covering environmental issues. She previously reported on the environment at the Texas Observer, Inside Climate News, and ProPublica. She is a Livingston Award finalist and has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Society of Environmental Journalists, and the Radio Television Digital News Association for her reporting.

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CANNON BALL, NORTH DAKOTA - DECEMBER 2: North Dakota national guardsmen stand guard on Turtle Island watching activists and native americans at Oceti Sakowin Camp on the edge of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation on December 3, 2016 outside Cannon Ball, North Dakota. Native Americans and activists from around the country have been gathering at the camp for several months trying to halt the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The proposed 1,172-mile-long pipeline would transport oil from the North Dakota Bakken region through South Dakota, Iowa and into Illinois. on December 1, 2016 in Cannon Ball North Dakota, Colorado. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Oil and Water

Pipeline Company Spent Big on Police Gear to Use Against Standing Rock Protesters

Alleen Brown, Naveena Sadasivam

- May. 22

TigerSwan worked with law enforcement to fight an information war against the Indigenous-led water protectors.

NORTH DAKOTA, UNITED STATES - 2017/02/22: Defiant Dakota Access Pipeline water protectors faced-off with various law enforcement agencies on the day the camp was slated to be raided. Many protesters and independent journalist, who were all threatened with multiple felony charges if they didn't leave were met with militarized police on the road abutting the camp. At least six were arrested, including a journalist who reportedly had sustained a broken hip. (Photo by Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Oil and Water

After Spying on Standing Rock, TigerSwan Shopped Anti-Protest "Counterinsurgency" to Other Oil Companies

Alleen Brown, Naveena Sadasivam

- Apr. 13

More than 50,000 pages of documents were recently made public after the company behind the Dakota Access pipeline lost a court case to keep them secret.

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Pipeline Company Spent Big on Police Gear to Use Against Standing Rock Protesters

After Spying on Standing Rock, TigerSwan Shopped Anti-Protest "Counterinsurgency" to Other Oil Companies