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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Populations of frogs and other amphibians have been declining around the world and biologist Lisa Schloegel believes that she may have discovered… -
Around the world, humans have wiped out 60 percent of all mammals, birds, fish and reptiles since 1970, according to a report by the World Wildlife… -
Since 1971, 10 states – led by Oregon and Vermont – have passed bottle deposit laws. These so-called “bottle bills” have proven to increase recycling… -
Thomas RaShad Easley grew up in an apartment in an urban neighborhood in Birmingham, Ala. But he learned to love nature, in part because his grandparents… -
Last week, Baltimore Mayor Jack Young abruptly announced the retirement of city’s Director of Public Works, Rudy Chow, amid public controversy surrounding… -
Many of us would like to gaze into a crystal ball and see what the future will be like.Well, Matt Fitzpatrick, an ecologist and associate professor at the… -
It was a late Saturday afternoon, and I was on the Chesapeake Bay, on a peninsula of land called Taylor’s Island, about 15 miles southwest of Cambridge on… -
Almost four years ago, the sewers of Baltimore erupted in a scandal.The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Maryland Department of the… -
On Monday in Washington D.C., three blocks north of the White House, climate activists shut down traffic by banging drums, chanting, and dragging a… -
On Friday, groups of students around the world plan to walk out of classes and hold marches and protests to demand government action on climate…
