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Aman Azhar

Aman Azhar

Reporter, Washington, D.C.

Aman Azhar is a Washington, D.C.-based journalist who covers environmental justice for Inside Climate News with focus on Baltimore-Maryland area. He has previously worked as a broadcast journalist and multimedia producer for the BBC World Service, VOA News and other international news organizations, reporting from London, Islamabad, the United Arab Emirates and New York. He holds a graduate degree in Anthropology of Media from University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and an MA in Political Science from the University of the Punjab, and is the recipient of the Chevening scholarship from the UK government and an academic scholarship for graduate studies from the Australian government.

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An EV charging station is seen in New Carrollton, Md. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Maryland Uses Millions in Federal Grants to Ramp Up EV Charging Network and Keep Up with Demand

By Aman Azhar

A view of the coal-fired Brandon Shores Power Plant, which supplies energy to grid operator PJM, in Stoney Beach, Md. Credit: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Clean Energy Industry Questions a New PJM Proposal That Could Move Fossil Fuel Projects to the Front of the Interconnection Queue

By Aman Azhar

Workers monitor grid conditions in the main control room at PJM Interconnection in Valley Forge, Pa. Credit: PJM Interconnection

Following Capacity Price Spike, Mid-Atlantic States Call for Electric Grid Operator PJM to Change Rules

By Aman Azhar

The Maryland Legislature meets during the final day of the legislative session at the State House on April 10, 2023. Credit: Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Advocates Expect Maryland to Drive Climate Action When Trump Returns to Washington

By Aman Azhar

A view of the WIN Waste incinerator in Baltimore from underneath Interstate 95. Credit: Agya K. Aning/Inside Climate News

Advocates, Lawmakers Hope 2025 Will Be the Year Maryland Stops Subsidizing Trash Incineration

By Aman Azhar

Sam Votzke (left) demonstrates how she performs research work with her field assistant, Olivia Bond. Credit: Aman Azhar/Inside Climate News

How Johns Hopkins Scientists and Neighborhood Groups Model Climate Change in Baltimore

By Aman Azhar

Laurel Peltier and a fellow Gedco Cares volunteer discuss how to help a client who was struggling to pay her utility bills because of inflated charges. Credit: Aman Azhar/Inside Climate News

Advocates, Legislators Are Confident Maryland Law to Rectify Retail Energy Market Will Survive Industry’s Legal Challenge 

By Aman Azhar

Eric Schott, a marine researcher at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, and graduate student Ronita Sequeira set up nets to capture small fish and other aquatic organisms along the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River in South Baltimore. Credit: Aman Azhar/Inside Climate News

Baltimore Is Investing in Wetlands Restoration, a Climate Line of Defense

By Aman Azhar

Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks, a Democrat, is up against Republican and former Governor Larry Hogan in Maryland’s U.S. Senate race. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call and Nathan Howard/Getty Images

A Pivotal Senate Race Could Make or Break Maryland’s Quest for Clean Energy Future

By Aman Azhar

An offshore oil drilling rig is seen in the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: Ron Buskirk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

US District Court Throws Out Federal Agency’s Assessment Allowing More Drilling for Fossil Fuels in the Gulf of Mexico

By Aman Azhar

A view of Baltimore near the Harbor on a dry day when residents experience more sewer backups in their homes and basements than on rainy days because of leaky, cracked pipes in the sewer mainline. Credit: Visions of America/Joseph Sohm/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

As Baltimore’s Sewer System Buckles Under Extreme Weather, City Refuses to Help Residents With Cleanup Efforts

By Aman Azhar

A view of the Dalecarlia Water Treatment Plant and Reservoir operated by the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers on the Maryland-D.C. border. Credit: USACE

Aggressive Algae Bloom Clogged Water System, Prompting Boil Water Advisory in D.C. and Parts of Virginia

By Aman Azhar

A view of the Chesapeake Bay off Annapolis, Maryland, on March 27. This year’s Chesapeake Bay and Watershed report card ranked the Bay’s overall health at a “C+”—its highest grade in more than 20 years. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

Historic Investments and Accountability Push Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Efforts In Right Direction, Says EPA Mid-Atlantic Administrator

By Aman Azhar

A crew works on transmission lines in Montgomery Village, Md. Credit: Eric Lee/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Clean Energy Projects Are Stuck in a Years-Long Queue. Maryland and Neighboring States Are Pushing for a Fix

By Aman Azhar

Neighbors look at a car crushed by a large tree in the wake of Hurricane Irene on August 28, 2011 in Baltimore, Maryland. Credit: Patrick Smith/Getty Images

Baltimore Judge Tosses Climate Case, Hands Win to Big Oil

By Aman Azhar

An aerial view of a fuel holding tank at Dorsey Junction Station in Woodbine, Maryland. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Ongoing Spending on Gas Infrastructure Can Worsen Energy Poverty, Impede Energy Transition, Maryland Utility Advocate Says

By Aman Azhar

A morning haze settles over the Chester River, a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay, in July 2023 near Centreville, Maryland. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

The Chesapeake Bay Program Isn’t Likely to Hit Its 2025 Cleanup Goals. What Happens Next?

By Aman Azhar

Curtis Bay residents joined activists and environmental advocates to protest fugitive coal dust escaping open-air coal pits, and asked the Maryland Department of the Environment to include stricter pollution controls in the forthcoming permit for CSX operation. Credit: Aman Azhar/Inside Climate News

South Baltimore Communities Press City, State Regulators for Stricter Pollution Controls on Coal Export Operations

By Aman Azhar

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