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Victoria St. Martin

Victoria St. Martin

Health and Environmental Justice Reporter, Philadelphia

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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Two audience members hold each other during a screening at the Philadelphia Museum of Art of the film "A Letter to my Sisters," a documentary about young women and breast cancer produced by Nia Imani Bailey, on October 7, 2023 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Credit: Caroline Gutman

A New Law Regulating the Cosmetics Industry Expands the FDA’s Power But Fails to Ban Toxic Chemicals in Beauty Products

By Victoria St. Martin

Jeanette Toomer fears that formaldehyde-based relaxers in hair straighteners she used for decades led her to develop endometrial cancer. Credit: Michael Kodas

Black Women Face Disproportionate Risks From Largely Unregulated Toxic Substances in Beauty and Personal Care Products

By Victoria St. Martin

Pauly Andy transports people and belonging using an all-terrain vehicles in Newtok, Alaska, where melting permafrost, sinking tundra and flooding disturbed the boardwalks on October 9, 2019. Credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Environmental Justice a Key Theme Throughout Biden’s National Climate Assessment

By Kristoffer Tigue, Georgina Gustin, Liza Gross, Victoria St. Martin

Steven James, 12, waits to hunt geese on St. Lawrence Island, in Alaska, sitting hidden behind a wood bar and a whale bone. Credit: Ann Johansson/Corbis via Getty Images.

Five Decades and a Mountain of Evidence: Study Explores How Toxic Chemicals are ‘Stealing Children’s Future Potential’

By Victoria St. Martin

Ami Zota, an environmental researcher at Columbia University, is studying the health impacts of beauty products marketed to women of color. Credit: Ami Zota

Q&A: Ami Zota on the Hidden Dangers in Beauty Products—and Why Women of Color Are Particularly at Risk

By Victoria St. Martin

In 1958, staff members at a newly created agency called the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention practice drawing training aids for teaching about vector-borne diseases, including malaria; in this case, one staff member draws the life cycle of a mosquito on a whiteboard. Image courtesy CDC. Credit: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images.

Malaria Cases in Florida and Texas Raise Prospect of Greater Transmission in a Warmer Future

By Victoria St. Martin

William "Bucky" Bailey attends the Washington, DC premiere of the motion picture "Dark Waters" on November 19, 2019 in Washington, DC. Credit: Shannon Finney/Getty Images

‘Profit Over the Public’s Health’: Study Details Efforts by Makers of Forever Chemicals to Hide Their Harms

By Victoria St. Martin

Arthur Steubing, 3, and his sister, Vesper Steubing 5, standing outside their family's home in New York last week, wearing masks to protect themselves from wildfire smoke from Canada that was blanketing the city. Credit: Wilhelmina PeragineArthur Steubing, 3, and his sister, Vesper Steubing 5, standing outside their family's home in New York last week, wearing masks to protect themselves from wildfire smoke from Canada that was blanketing the city. Credit: Wilhelmina Peragine

As Wildfire Smoke Recedes, Parents of Young Children Worry About the Next Time

By Victoria St. Martin

State Rep. Chris Rabb, a Philadelphia Democrat, and Stephanie Wein, a water and conservation advocate at PennEnvironment, a Philadelphia-based advocacy group talk after a press conference at city hall. Credit: Victoria St. Martin

As EPA Proposes Tougher Rules on Emissions, Report Names Pennsylvania as One of America’s Top Polluters

By Victoria St. Martin

Courtesy of Linda Villarosa

Q&A: Linda Villarosa Took on the Perils of Medical Racism. She Found Black Americans ‘Live Sicker and Die Quicker’

By Victoria St. Martin

The view of downtown Los Angeles skyline is obscured by wildfire smoke, ash and smog as seen from the Griffith Observatory Monday, Sept. 14, 2020 in Los Angeles. Credit: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Nearly 1 in 5 Americans Live in Communities With Harmful Air Quality, Study Shows

By Victoria St. Martin

Robert Bilott attends the "Dark Waters" New York Premiere at Walter Reade Theater on Nov. 12, 2019 in New York City. Credit: Mike Coppola/Getty Images

Q&A: The Power of One Voice, and Now, Many: The Lawyer Who Sounded the Alarm on ‘Forever Chemicals’

By Victoria St. Martin

Attorney Robert Bilott speaks at the Fight Forever Chemicals Campaign kick off event on Capitol Hill on Nov. 19, 2019 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Paul Morigi/Getty Images

Environmentalists Praise the EPA’s Move to Restrict ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Water and Wonder, What’s Next?

By Victoria St. Martin

Jacqueline Echols walks along a trail in Constitution Lakes Park. Echols said that Atlanta's distinctive tree canopy provides "innumerable benefits to the environment and to the community.” Credit: Victoria St. Martin

In Atlanta, Proposed ‘Cop City’ Stirs Environmental Justice Concerns

By Victoria St. Martin

Yakini Horn, owner of Yaya’s Natural Hair Boutique in Atlanta, rolled sections of Akeyla Peele-Tembong’s hair in her hands during a styling visit on Feb. 20, 2023. Horn was creating “starter locs,” the early stage of a natural hairstyle that will take months to root. Credit: Victoria St. Martin

The ‘Environmental Injustice of Beauty’: The Role That Pressure to Conform Plays In Use of Harmful Hair, Skin Products Among Women of Color

By Victoria St. Martin

Chef Sia demonstrates how to use an induction stove during a cooking lesson at the office of the Association for Energy Affordability in the Bronx. Photo Courtesy of WE ACT for Environmental Justice

Indoor Pollutant Concentrations Are Significantly Lower in Homes Without a Gas Stove, Nonprofit Finds

By Delaney Dryfoos, Victoria St. Martin

Gas-burning stoves are offered for sale at a home improvement store on this month in Chicago. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images.

How Gas Stoves Became Part of America’s Raging Culture Wars

By Victoria St. Martin

Air pollution in the U.S. Credit: plus49/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images

After a Decade, Federal Officials Tighten Guidelines on Air Pollution

By Victoria St. Martin

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