The Environment in Focus is a weekly perspective on the issues and people changing our natural world. Tom Pelton gives you a tour of this landscape every Wednesday at 7:46 a.m. and 5:45 p.m.
Tom Pelton is a national award-winning environmental journalist, formerly with The Baltimore Sun. He is the author of the book, The Chesapeake in Focus: Transforming the Natural World, published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Pelton is also the Co-Director of the Center for Environmental Investigations at the Environmental Integrity Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to holding polluters and governments accountable to protect public health.
The Environment in Focus is independently owned and distributed by Environment in Focus Radio to WYPR and other stations. The program is sponsored by the Abell Foundation, which is working to enhance the quality of life in Baltimore and in Maryland. The views expressed are solely Pelton's. You can contact him at [email protected]
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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… -
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…
