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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Last week, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing on the Trump Administration’s management of the Environmental Protection… -
Twelve years ago, Baltimore spent $2.2 million on an erosion control project in a stream called the Stony Run that flows through a beautiful wooded park… -
Earlier this month, the Trump Administration announced that it would open up the entire Eastern Seaboard to offshore drilling – including at the mouth of… -
The sun was setting behind a sea of pink and steel gray clouds at the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge on Maryland’s Eastern shore when a few dozen,… -
The Maryland General Assembly session opens today in Annapolis. Last year, state lawmakers – in the face of a tidal wave of anti-environmental actions by… -
A biologist at George Washington University, Alexander Pyron, recently published an Op Ed in The Washington Post that made the argument that people… -
The Trump Administration has announced that it will eliminate an Obama-era regulation called the Clean Water Rule, which was imposed in 2015 to limit… -
Our world is awash in litter, with a monstrous gyre of floating plastic swelling in the Pacific Ocean, bottles and cans cluttering our roadsides, and… -
The Department of the Interior is a sprawling federal agency that manages lands, wildlife and scientific research across the U.S. including through the… -
I’m standing on the banks of the scenic Monocacy River in central Maryland, near Frederick. As the sun sets, a full moon rises illuminating ragged rows of…
