Articles by Senior Staff Writer Lylla Younes
Lylla Younes was previously a senior staff writer covering environmental justice and industrial pollution. While previously at ProPublica, her work mapping cancer-causing industrial pollution in Louisiana helped lead to the suspension of Formosa Plastic’s permit in St. James Parish, and won the 2020 Nina Mason Pulliam Award for Outstanding Environmental Reporting. In 2020, she was part of a team that wrote a peer-reviewed paper linking COVID deaths to air pollution. She has also collaborated with the Oregonian and OPB on a series about how Oregon’s timber industry hollows rural communities. The series won the 2021 John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism. She teaches data journalism at the CUNY Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.
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‘Extreme victory’: Years of organization leads to the shuttering of a toxic polluter in south Memphis
The closure of one of the nation's most toxic medical equipment sterilization facilities will reduce residents' exposure to carcinogenic ethylene oxide.
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Even the bayous of Louisiana are now threatened by wildfires
In just one month, 7 times more acres burned than in an average year.
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On Maui, returning home means confronting toxic risks
A growing body of research shows that wildfires leave a trail of dangerous chemicals behind.
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In Pennsylvania, state data links fracking to childhood cancer
A new study suggests children near oil and gas wells are 5-7 times more likely to develop lymphoma.
