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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.

Paint peels from the side of a home along 37th Avenue on Sunday, April 9, 2017, in Oakland, California. Credit: Aric Crabb/Bay Area News via Getty Images

Lead Poisonings of Children in Baltimore Are Down, but Lead Contamination Still Poses a Major Threat, a New Report Says

By Agya K. Aning

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

Vehicles washed into a pile behind a building in historic Ellicott City as flood waters raged through its streets following torrential thunderstorms in Ellicott City, Maryland on May 27, 2018. Credit: Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images

In Baltimore, Helping Congregations Prepare for a Stormier Future

By Agya K. Aning

Activists seen holding banner during a protest ahead of the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow. Credit: Hesther Ng/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

At COP26, a Consensus That Developing Nations Need Far More Help Countering Climate Change

By Agya K. Aning

Part-time worker Kenneth Moss, animal caretaker Charles DeBarber and collective founder Marvin Hayes pose in front of a mural in the Filbert Street Community garden on Nov. 2, 2021. Two turkeys, Archie and Teka, also wanted their pictures taken. Credit: Agya K. Aning

A Bridge to Composting and Clean Air in South Baltimore

By Agya K. Aning

Southbound Interstate 95 is seen in Baltimore, Maryland on March 22, 2017. Credit: Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Long Concerned About Air Pollution, Baltimore Experienced Elevated Levels on 43 Days in 2020

By Agya K. Aning

Students planting seedlings during a field trip to Great Kids Farm in 2019. Photo courtesy of Anne Rosenthal

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

During an environmental justice march in Detroit. Credit: Marcus Johnstone

Timeline: Early Landmark Events in the Environmental Justice Movement

By Agya K. Aning

A coalition of NYC Black Lives Matter activists and environmental justice groups march on the 51st anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X in 2016 to demand justice for the people of Flint, Michigan. Credit: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images

The Biden Administration’s Embrace of Environmental Justice Has Made Wary Activists Willing to Believe

By Agya K. Aning

The paint chipping from a windowsill contains amounts of lead that are dangerous to children. Credit: MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images

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

Neighbors Kelly Hagen (left) and Dixie Wilkinson stand in their respective yards on April 22, 2021 in Pensacola, Florida. Their homes are located next to the now closed American Creosote Works, now an EPA Superfund site which is causing environmental problems for the area and health problems for the residents who live near it. Credit: Dan Anderson

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

Row homes are seen in Baltimore, Maryland. Credit: Patrick Smith/Getty Images

Maryland Thought Deregulating Utilities Would Lower Rates. It’s Cost the State’s Residents Hundreds of Millions of Dollars.

By Agya K. Aning

The smokestack of the Wheelabrator Incinerator is seen near Interstate 95 in Baltimore, Maryland, March 09, 2019. Credit: Eva Claire Hambach/AFP via Getty Images

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

U.S. President Joe Biden prepares to sign executive orders after speaking about climate change issues in the State Dining Room of the White House on January 27, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Biden signed several executive orders related to the climate change crisis on Wednesday, including one directing a pause on new oil and natural gas leases on public lands. Also pictured, left to right, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry and Vice President Kamala Harris. Credit: Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images

‘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

Chemical plants and factories line the roads and suburbs of the area known as 'Cancer Alley' along the Mississippi River in Louisiana on Oct. 15, 2013. Credit: Giles Clarke/Getty Images

Activists See Biden’s Day One Focus on Environmental Justice as a Critical Campaign Promise Kept

By Kristoffer Tigue, Agya K. Aning, Judy Fahys, Katie Surma

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