Tom Pelton
Host, The Environment in FocusTom Pelton, a national award-winning environmental journalist, has hosted "The Environment in Focus" since 2007. He also works as director of communications for the Environmental Integrity Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to holding polluters and governments accountable to protect public health. From 1997 until 2008, he was a journalist for The Baltimore Sun, where he was twice named one of the best environmental reporters in America by the Society of Environmental Journalists.
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Charlie Reeves grew up in public housing in South Philadelphia near the oldest and largest oil refinery on the East Coast.“I grew up in the projects…
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Next Tuesday is Election day. And for the first time ever, environmental issues --and specifically climate change --are center stage in the public debate…
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The Earth, as we know it, is being threatened by at least two simultaneous environmental crises.The first is climate change, which is sparking wildfires,…
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Forty minutes northeast of Baltimore, at the Boulevard at Box Hill shopping mall in Harford County, hundreds of empty parking spaces surround a J.C.…
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After months of ridiculing scientific guidance on the use of masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus – and even demanding that his own employees…
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Earlier this month, during a press conference in Jupiter, Florida, President Trump recalled how lawmakers from Florida asked him to sign a nonbinding…
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On August 31, Baltimore suspended its curbside recycling program. The coronavirus pandemic and fear of infection had caused about a third of the city’s…
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The sun was already low on the horizon when I set off into the Susquehanna River in my kayak just southwest of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The golden light…
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On the Eastern Shore of Maryland, at the very end of a long peninsula reaching out into the Chesapeake Bay, is a remote and isolated crabbing town called…
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During the Republican National Convention last week, President Trump and his surrogates used environmental issues – especially climate change – to try to…