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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The coronavirus crisis has contributed to a crash in oil prices, as people are driving less while working at home and many businesses are shut down.… -
Thirteen years ago, after a series of near-miss pandemics, including those caused by the swine flu, bird flu and the SARS virus (which causes severe acute… -
In these times of the coronavirus, the public health strategy of “social distancing” is hard on people because humans are, by their nature, a social… -
Kavin Senapathy is a freelance journalist who was drawn to the field of science blogging nine years ago. It was just after her first child was born and… -
Maryland faces a critical decision point in its decades-long effort to clean up the Chesapeake Bay.The poultry industry on the Eastern Shore produces… -
It’s a watershed moment in American politics. Climate change and the environment, for the first time, have risen to become among the top issues in a… -
The home-made looking video is popular on YouTube, with hundreds of thousands of views. It was produced by a group called the “Science Moms,” who say… -
Jay Falstad, Executive Director of the Queen Anne’s Conservation Association on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, first became obsessed with balloons a few years… -
While many Republicans have been in denial about the realities of climate science – notably the denier-in-chief, President Trump, who falsely labels… -
Since 1971, 10 states – led by Oregon and Vermont – have passed bottle deposit laws. These so-called “bottle bills” have proven to increase recycling…
