Agya K. Aning
Reporter, Baltimore
Agya K. Aning is a Roy W. Howard fellow at Inside Climate News focusing on environmental justice. He earned a master’s degree in investigative journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at ASU in 2020. Before switching careers to journalism he taught English as a second language in China and Taiwan, where he also studied Mandarin. His work has appeared in the Arizona Republic, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, USA Today, Poynter and The Trace.
A Black Woman Fought for Her Community, and Her Life, Amidst Polluting Landfills and Vast ‘Borrow Pits’ Mined for Sand and Clay
By Agya K. Aning
In Baltimore, Helping Congregations Prepare for a Stormier Future
By Agya K. Aning
At COP26, a Consensus That Developing Nations Need Far More Help Countering Climate Change
By Agya K. Aning
A Bridge to Composting and Clean Air in South Baltimore
By Agya K. Aning
Long Concerned About Air Pollution, Baltimore Experienced Elevated Levels on 43 Days in 2020
By Agya K. Aning
In Baltimore Schools, Cutting Food Waste as a Lesson in Climate Awareness and Environmental Literacy
By Agya K. Aning
Baltimore Aspires to ‘Zero Waste’ But Recycles Only a Tiny Fraction of its Residential Plastic
By Agya K. Aning
Timeline: Early Landmark Events in the Environmental Justice Movement
By Agya K. Aning
The Biden Administration’s Embrace of Environmental Justice Has Made Wary Activists Willing to Believe
By Agya K. Aning
For the Second Time in Four Years, the Ninth Circuit Has Ordered the EPA to Set New Lead Paint and Dust Standards
By Agya K. Aning
The EPA Calls an Old Creosote Works in Pensacola an Uncontrolled Threat to Human Health. Why Is There No Money to Clean it Up?
By Agya K. Aning, Katie Surma, Kristoffer Tigue
Maryland Thought Deregulating Utilities Would Lower Rates. It’s Cost the State’s Residents Hundreds of Millions of Dollars.
By Agya K. Aning
Baltimore Continues Incinerating Trash, Despite Opposition from its New Mayor and City Council
By Agya K. Aning
Why the Poor in Baltimore Face Such Crushing ‘Energy Burdens’
By Agya K. Aning
‘We Need to Be Bold,’ Biden Says, Taking the First Steps in a Major Shift in Climate Policy
By Marianne Lavelle, Agya K. Aning, Dan Gearino, David Hasemyer, James Bruggers, Katie Surma, Kristoffer Tigue, Phil McKenna
