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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One of the biggest obstacles to dealing with the problem of climate change is that it will not impact everyone equally.Even if temperatures soar, coastal… -
Twenty years ago, following a trend of Republican-style free-market deregulation across the country, the Democratic-led Maryland General Assembly passed a… -
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has criticized Pennsylvania for being the state that contributes by far the most pollution to the Chesapeake Bay… -
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… -
President Trump’s official campaign website features a new product for sale: Red plastic drinking straws with the word “Trump” emblazoned on their… -
It was a hot Friday afternoon, with mounds of white clouds in a dazzling blue sky, and I was hiking along the gravel of the Chesapeake & Ohio canal trail… -
As he runs for re-election, President Trump is portraying himself as the man who turned around the American energy industry and rescued it from a hostile… -
In the science fiction film The Matrix, the global environment has been destroyed. But most people don’t know it, because their minds are caught up in a… -
The Trump Administration is proposing to roll back car and truck fuel-efficiency standards that were imposed by the Obama Administration to cut down on… -
A heat wave in Europe this week drove up temperatures to a record-breaking 115 degrees in France. In the American Midwest, scientists said climate change…
