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Victoria St. Martin

Victoria St. Martin

Reporter, Health and Environmental Justice

Victoria St. Martin covers health and environmental justice at Inside Climate News. During a 20-year career in journalism, she has worked in a half dozen newsrooms, including The Washington Post where she served as a breaking news and general assignment reporter. Besides The Post, St. Martin has also worked at The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, The Trentonian, The South Bend Tribune and WNIT, the PBS-member station serving north central Indiana. In addition to her newsroom experience, St. Martin is also a journalism educator who spent four years as a distinguished visiting journalist with the Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy at the University of Notre Dame. She is a co-director of the Dow Jones News Fund summer internship training workshop at Temple University. St. Martin is a graduate of Rutgers University and holds a master’s degree from American University’s School of Communication. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011 and has written extensively about the prevalence of breast cancer in young women. In her work, St. Martin is particularly interested in health care disparities affecting Black women.
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Tyrik Jr., 3, and Naylani Davis, 6, play with a water fountain at ResilienCity Park on Aug. 27 in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Un parque infantil ayuda a controlar las inundaciones en una histórica ciudad de Nueva Jersey

By Victoria St. Martin

Tyrik Jr., 3, and Naylani Davis, 6, play with a water fountain at ResilienCity Park on Aug. 27 in Hoboken, New Jersey.

How a Children’s Playground Is Helping With Flood Mitigation in a Small, Historic New Jersey City

By Victoria St. Martin

An aerial view of the Fifth Ward Elementary School in Reserve, Louisiana, with the nation’s only chloroprene plant in the background. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

In Louisiana, Environmental Justice Advocates Ponder Next Steps After a Federal Judge Effectively Bars EPA Civil Rights Probes

By Victoria St. Martin

A new study found toxic metals like lead and arsenic in tampons. Credit: Sebastian Kahnert/picture alliance via Getty Images

After a Study Found Lead in Tampons, Environmentalists Wonder if Global Metal Pollution Is Worse Than They Previously Thought

By Victoria St. Martin

JeNiyah Scaife, an intern at the CDC’s Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, works in a lab on a new test that will help to detect a species of mosquito that can carry malaria. Credit: CDC

To Help Stop Malaria’s Spread, CDC Researchers Create a Test to Find a Mosquito That Is Flourishing Thanks to Climate Change

By Victoria St. Martin

People and their pets rest at the Oregon Convention Center cooling station in Portland as the city is hit with extreme temperatures caused by a heat dome on June 28, 2021. Credit: Kathryn Elsesser/AFP via Getty Images

‘Not Caused by an Act of God’: In a Rare Court Action, an Oregon County Seeks to Hold Fossil Fuel Companies Accountable for Extreme Temperatures

By Victoria St. Martin

Environmental justice advocate Sharon Lavigne is worried about a proposed plastics plant near her home in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley.” Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

For Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley,’ Study Shows An Even Graver Risk From Toxic Gases

By Victoria St. Martin

People try to keep cool at Coney Island during a heat wave in New York City on July 28, 2023. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

With Heat Waves, an Increased Risk for Heart Problems, New Research Shows

By Victoria St. Martin

A boy cools off in a public fountain during a heat wave in New York on July 26, 2023. Credit: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images

Amid Record-Breaking Heat Wave, Researchers Step Up Warnings About Risks Extreme Temperatures Pose to Children

By Victoria St. Martin

Emergency medical technicians respond to a pregnant woman suffering from dehydration as extreme heat hits the region on July 19, 2023 in Eagle Pass, Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

For Pregnant People, Heat Waves Bring An Increased Risk of Preterm and Early Term Babies, Study Finds

By Victoria St. Martin

Sasser Sasser uses her research to show how climate emotions land hardest on marginalized groups, people of color and low-income groups. Credit: Courtesy photo

Q&A: Should We Be Having Babies In a Warming World? 

By Victoria St. Martin

As California Considers Warning Labels for Gas Stoves, Researchers Learn More About Their Negative Health Impacts

By Victoria St. Martin

Robert Taylor stands outside his home, which is about a mile from the nation’s only chloroprene rubber plant, in Reserve, La. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

In Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley,’ Excitement Over New Emissions Rules Is Tempered By a Legal Challenge to Federal Environmental Justice Efforts

By Victoria St. Martin

One World Trade Center in New York City is obscured amid poor air quality due to smoke from Canadian wildfires as planes sit on the tarmac at Newark Liberty International Airport on June 8, 2023 in New Jersey. Credit: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images

More Than a Third of All Americans Live in Communities with ‘Hazardous’ Air, Lung Association Finds

By Victoria St. Martin

Natural gas is flared off during an oil-drilling operation in the Permian Basin in Stanton, Texas. A new study examined flaring and venting during oil and gas production. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Flaring and Venting at Industrial Plants Causes Roughly Two Premature Deaths Each Day, a New Study Finds

By Victoria St. Martin

A woman works on a farm as it rains with high humidity during a heatwave in Homestead, Fla. on July 15, 2023. Credit: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images

Florida Legislators Ban Local Heat Protections for Millions of Outdoor Workers

By Amy Green, Victoria St. Martin

Clairton Coke Works is one of the world’s largest producers of coke, which leads to the emission of a raft of chemicals. Credit: Scott Goldsmith/Inside Climate News

In the ‘Armpit of the Universe,’ a Window Into the Persistent Inequities of Environmental Policy

By Kiley Bense, Victoria St. Martin

Sonya Sanders poses for a portrait outside her home in Philadelphia on Dec. 19, 2023. Credit: Caroline Gutman/Inside Climate News

To Live and Die in Philadelphia: Sonya Sanders Grew Up Next Door to a Giant Refinery. She’s Still Suffering From Environmental Trauma

By Victoria St. Martin

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