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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Twelve years ago, Baltimore spent $2.2 million on an erosion control project in a stream called the Stony Run that flows through a beautiful wooded park… -
Earlier this month, the Trump Administration announced that it would open up the entire Eastern Seaboard to offshore drilling – including at the mouth of… -
The sun was setting behind a sea of pink and steel gray clouds at the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge on Maryland’s Eastern shore when a few dozen,… -
The Maryland General Assembly session opens today in Annapolis. Last year, state lawmakers – in the face of a tidal wave of anti-environmental actions by… -
A biologist at George Washington University, Alexander Pyron, recently published an Op Ed in The Washington Post that made the argument that people… -
The Trump Administration has announced that it will eliminate an Obama-era regulation called the Clean Water Rule, which was imposed in 2015 to limit… -
Our world is awash in litter, with a monstrous gyre of floating plastic swelling in the Pacific Ocean, bottles and cans cluttering our roadsides, and… -
The Department of the Interior is a sprawling federal agency that manages lands, wildlife and scientific research across the U.S. including through the… -
I’m standing on the banks of the scenic Monocacy River in central Maryland, near Frederick. As the sun sets, a full moon rises illuminating ragged rows of… -
Next Friday, on December 8,Maryland Governor Larry Hogan’s administration is scheduled to release new regulations to promote a new water pollution control…
