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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Over the long history of the Chesapeake Bay, those captivated by its beauty have often suffered from landscape amnesia.We love and want to preserve what… -
The Maryland General Assembly wrapped up its annual session at Midnight on Monday with a solemn and emotional tribute to House Speaker Michael Busch, the… -
For the second year in a row, lawmakers in the Maryland House of Delegates voted to approve a bill that would outlaw an insecticide called chlorpyrifos.… -
Many people think of climate change and sea-level rise as issues that may threaten future generations and far-flung locations.But a Stanford University… -
A flood of words have been written about the recently departed Harry Hughes, the governor of Maryland from 1979 to 1987. But not enough has been said… -
It’s a warm, spring afternoon in Baltimore. And in Druid Hill Park, on the east end of the park’s shimmering lake rises a 150-year-old, Moorish-style… -
Last week, the new Democratic majority in the U.S. House held its first oversight hearing into what the Trump Administration has been doing to the… -
It’s almost impossible to walk into a convenience store, pass a bus stop, or even to watch You Tube videos these days without being assaulted with ads for… -
Last week, the Baltimore City Council passed a bill that would significantly reduce air pollution from the city’s single largest source of emissions: the… -
Last week, Congressional Democrats unveiled a resolution that articulated a vision for shifting the American economy to a clean energy future. The…
