Bloomberg Industry Group environmental reporter Emily Dooley is leaving the news organization to become a writer at University of California-Davis.
Her last day is Thursday. She will be working at the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
Dooley previously had been with Newsday as the environmental and Superstorm Sandy reporter.
She covered the environment on Long Island, with its 3 million people and countless waterways and coastal concerns, including stories about contamination, erosion, clean-up, green tech and sustainability. She also reported on Superstorm Sandy issues, from environmental and infrastructure to federal funding and rebuilding.
Dooley also was a journalism fellow for the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research in 2014, and she previously covered the town of North Hempstead for Newsday.
From March 2008 to November 2010, Dooley was a business reporter for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. She also worked for six years at the Cape Cod Times and for the Colorado community weekly newspapers Littleton Independent, Highlands Ranch Herald and Lone Tree Voice.
