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, amid the shutdown and paralysis of the federal government, the Maryland General Assembly took action and opened its 2019 legislative… -
With hydraulic facturing revolutionizing the oil and gas industry, and the Trump Administration pushing an “energy dominance” doctrine, pipeline… -
Mr. Trash Wheel is a water-driven trash-interceptor and collection machine that was installed four years ago at the mouth of the Jones Falls, where it… -
Kevin Omland, a biology professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, stands below a highway overpass towering above a wooded stream valley… -
Last week, the Trump Administration announced proposed new regulations that would eliminate federal Clean Water Act protections for 51 percent of wetlands… -
Biologists have long raised concerns about the ecological impact of the world’s most popular weed killer, RoundUp.RoundUp’s active ingredient, glyphosate,… -
Nutria, also called Myocaster coypus (latin for mouse beaver), are large rodents native to South America that wreaked havoc on the Chesapeake Bay's… -
Last week, on Black Friday, the Trump Administration released a Congressionally-mandated scientific assessment of the impact of climate change. The report… -
Atlantic sturgeon are dinosaur-era fish with bony plates and sandpaper hide that were once the kings of the Chesapeake Bay and other waterways along the… -
Last week on this program, I narrated a feature on the joys of kayaking on the Prettyboy Reservoir in Northern Baltimore County amid the glorious colors…
