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.
- 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
- ‘Neighborhood is treated like a dumping ground’: Activists say Texas should own up to air pollutionNovember 5, 2022
- Outside: The Latin American Immigrants Shaking Up New York City’s Bike RacesAugust 23, 2021
- The Nation: Saving Lives and Going Hungry: NYC Ambulance Workers Demand Higher PayApril 12, 2021
- The Guardian: ‘It doesn’t feel worth it’: Covid-19 is pushing New York’s EMTs to the brinkFebruary 25, 2021