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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![Collage: people protesting poor air quality; a house with an air monitor in the yard; smokestacks with hand drawn smoke]()
![Collage: people protesting poor air quality; a house with an air monitor in the yard; smokestacks with hand drawn smoke]()
Congress is spending millions on new air monitors. Will it make a difference?
The new climate bill could help reveal industrial pollution. But no law requires the government to act.
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![A man in a suit stands in front of industrial plant]()
![A man in a suit stands in front of industrial plant]()
EPA finally calls out environmental racism in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley
In a “remarkable” letter, the EPA accused Louisiana regulators of neglecting Black residents’ concerns about toxic air pollution.
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![Wetlands in northern Idaho]()
![Wetlands in northern Idaho]()
What’s protected under the Clean Water Act? The Supreme Court is about to decide.
Sackett v. EPA could roll back protections for more than 50 percent of the nation’s wetlands.
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![Collage: a hardrock mine with mountains in the background with objects coming out of the center: a solar panel, a wind turbine, and an electric car with a long orang electric cord plugged into it and winding around the mountain]()
![Collage: a hardrock mine with mountains in the background with objects coming out of the center: a solar panel, a wind turbine, and an electric car with a long orang electric cord plugged into it and winding around the mountain]()
How a clean energy future is colliding with mining’s dark past
“No one wants a mine in their backyard.”
