Martha Pskowski covers climate change and the environment in Texas for Inside Climate News from her home-base in El Paso. She previously was an environmental reporter at the El Paso Times. She began her career as a freelance journalist in Mexico, reporting for outlets including The Guardian and Yale E360.
Martha grew up in Maryland and graduated from Hampshire College with a degree in Environmental Studies. She holds a master’s degree in Journalism and Latin American Studies from New York University and is a former Fulbright research fellow in Mexico. She received second place from the Society of Environmental Journalists in the Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding Investigative Reporting, small, in 2024. She received the Bernhardt Labor Journalism prize in 2021.

Texas Workers Keep Dying in the HeatNovember 30, 2025
Trump Says America’s Oil Industry Is Cleaner Than Other Countries’. New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas WellsNovember 30, 2025
Texas Oil and Gas Companies Drill With River Water During Extreme DroughtNovember 30, 2025
Texas Regulators Report More Than 250 New Cases of Groundwater ContaminationDecember 30, 2024
How Heat, Chronic Illness Killed Three Members of a Texas FamilyNovember 18, 2024
Holding Out Hope On the Drying Rio GrandeNovember 12, 2024
Funds to Help Low-Income Families With Summer Electric Bills Are Stretched ThinJuly 29, 2024
Texas Companies Eye Pecos River Watershed for Oilfield WastewaterMay 23, 2024
Railroad Commission Approves Toxic Waste Ponds Next to Baptist CampFebruary 27, 2024
Oil and Gas Companies Spill Millions of Gallons of Wastewater in TexasOctober 31, 2023
‘Once in a lifetime’: funding helps El Paso close the water gap in coloniasNovember 5, 2022
Before Uvalde school shooting, Mexican-Americans fought for decades to improve school systemNovember 5, 2022