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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President Trump’s official campaign website features a new product for sale: Red plastic drinking straws with the word “Trump” emblazoned on their… -
Recycling programs across the U.S. are suffering or shutting down. This is because China – until recently, the world’s largest importer of recyclable… -
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… -
I was paddling down the Big Gunpowder Falls near Sparks, Maryland, when I saw a great blue heron standing on a log in the river, tall and elegant. As I… -
It’s a warm June night and a full moon is painting a silvery path across the gentle ripples on Delaware Bay.I’m on the beach, southeast of Dover. And from… -
It was a warm spring evening as I set off in a kayak from a boat ramp in Middletown, Pennsylvania, about an hour north of Baltimore, into the still waters…
