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Articles by Senior Staff Writer Lylla Younes

Lylla Younes is 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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Trump’s push for ‘efficiency’ may destroy the EPA. What does that mean for you?

Current and former EPA staff say millions of Americans could lose access to clean air and water.

Lylla Younes Regulation
Lead in the water and chloroprene in the air: Whom does the EPA protect?

The Biden administration promised change for overpolluted communities in the South. Four years later, they're still waiting.

Lylla Younes Accountability
Some of the world’s biggest cities are so polluted they’re warming slower

But this surprising effect of pollution should hardly be taken as a good sign.

Lylla Younes Climate & Energy
How the world gave up on 1.5 degrees

A decade after the Paris Agreement, Andreas Malm and Wim Carton trace how we've kept on with business as usual.

Lylla Younes Economics