We found out today that one of CityLife’s former staffers, Emmily Bristol, has been offered a gig as the Southern Nevada director of the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada. Good for her! (Since leaving CityLife, Emmily has blogged at Sin City Siren.)

While at CityLife, Emmily always was interested in environmental causes, including and especially the plan by the LandWell Cos. to build houses on Henderson land that was essentially an environmental wasteland during World War II. In a classic story, she demonstrated that authorities don’t even known all the chemicals that were dumped on the land, much less when it could be certified for human habitation.

LandWell Co., developers of the project, fired back by buying a full-page ad in order to publish a letter filled with inaccuracies, exaggerations and the like. We’re proud to say we replied in a column that set the record straight. As it turns out, Emmily knew her subject backwards and forwards.

So now, it looks like Emmily will again be tackling an environmental issue that has slipped the notice of every other progressive or environmental group in town. And just in time, too.