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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![Cases of bottled water are handed out at a Mississippi Rapid Response Coalition distribution site on August 31, 2022 in Jackson, Mississippi.]()
![Cases of bottled water are handed out at a Mississippi Rapid Response Coalition distribution site on August 31, 2022 in Jackson, Mississippi.]()
In Jackson, Mississippi, a water crisis that won’t end
“It’s a red war on a blue city, and it’s a white war on a Black city."
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‘Death stars on sinking land’: How liquefied natural gas took over the Gulf Coast
The U.S. is now the world's top exporter of LNG. Towns in southern Louisiana are paying the price.
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The EPA is cracking down on steel mill pollution. In Gary, Indiana, it might not be enough.
“Their neglect over the last two to three decades has caused enormous harm."
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![Abandoned wells in a forest in Louisiana]()
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Biden administration announces $660 million to plug abandoned wells
“It’s a lot of money, but it's nowhere near enough.”
