Tammy Murga
Environment ReporterTammy Murga is the environment reporter at KPBS.
Before joining KPBS, she reported on San Diego County’s South County region for The San Diego Union-Tribune. Tammy has built her career covering communities across California, documenting recovery efforts after devastating Northern California wildfires, the resilience of youth following a deadly school shooting in Southern California and the ways business owners adapted amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Her reporting has been recognized by the California News Publishers Association and the San Diego Society of Professional Journalists.
In 2024, she was selected as a Data Fellow with the University of Southern California’s Center for Health Journalism, where she investigated the environmental and health impacts of cross-border pollution on children. Tammy has a background in journalism and new media, and graduated from Mount Saint Mary’s University in Los Angeles.
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Students are developing a chemical index that the public can use to better understand where the chemicals polluting the Tijuana River come from and what dangers they pose to their health. -
They each carry an 80-liter trash bag and, once the bags get too heavy to carry around, they know it’s time to walk home and get ready for work. -
The Waste Free SD hotline answers callers' questions about where and how to dispose of their unwanted waste. -
The premiere of “The Inaudible Ocean” is on May 20 at the Conrad Prebys Music Center Concert Hall in La Jolla. -
KPBS Midday EditionWe hear from a medical expert to learn more about hantavirus, how it differs from coronavirus, and why he feels the public health risk remains low. -
For months, temperatures all along the West Coast have risen 3 to 4 degrees above normal. Now, Scientists say a separate heat wave is forming hundreds of miles off the Pacific coast and are monitoring whether the two heat waves could merge.
- Sierra Club sues Imperial County over approval of massive data center complex
- Parents push San Diego Unified to limit classroom screen use
- Arts, cultural leaders rally to demand San Diego restore millions in funding cut
- How Peace Studies students in San Diego are tackling the Tijuana River sewage crisis
- After San Diego mosque shooting, Eid Al-Adha prayer services carry heavier weight