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Kiley Bense

Reporter, Pennsylvania

Kiley Bense covers climate change and the environment with a focus on Pennsylvania, politics, energy, and public health. She has reported on the effects of the fracking boom in Pennsylvania, the expansion of the American plastics industry, and the intersection of climate change and culture. Her previous work has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Smithsonian Magazine, the Believer, and Sierra Magazine, and she holds master’s degrees in journalism and creative writing from Columbia University. She is based in Pennsylvania.

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U.S. Steel’s mill in Gary, Ind. Credit: Mira Oberman/AFP via Getty Images

Residents Living in the Shadow of the Steel Industry Ask the EPA to Reconsider Delay of Hazardous Air Pollution Rule

By Kiley Bense

Commuters board a SEPTA train in Philadelphia. Credit: Gregory Adams/Getty Images

Without Well-Funded Public Transit, Philadelphia’s Climate Future Looks Bleak

By Kiley Bense

The Shell plant in Beaver County, Pa., produces polyethylene, a type of single-use plastic, using ethane. Credit: Mark Dixon/CC BY 2.0

Pennsylvania Lured Shell to the State With a $1.65 Billion Tax Break. Now the Company Wants to Sell Its Plant

By Kiley Bense

Ambulances respond to an explosion at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works on Monday in Clairton, Pa. Credit: Rebecca Droke/AFP via Getty Images

‘It Didn’t Have to Be This Way’: After Another Explosion at Clairton Coke Works, Advocates Call for Accountability

By Kiley Bense

A view of the Shenango coke plant in Pittsburgh in December 2012. Credit: Allegheny County Clean Air Now

Kids in Pennsylvania Are Breathing (Much) Easier After a Coal Plant Shuttered

By Kiley Bense

Boerne search and rescue team members prepare for operations on the flooded Guadalupe River on July 4 in Comfort, Texas. Credit: Eric Vryn/Getty Images

As Trump Shrinks FEMA, State and Local Emergency Managers Say They’re Barely Getting By

By Kiley Bense

President Donald Trump arrives to speak to guests and investors at the inaugural Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon University on Tuesday in Pittsburgh. Credit: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

Trump Hails $90 Billion in Corporate Investment to Make Pennsylvania an AI Hub, Fueled by Natural Gas

By Marianne Lavelle, Kiley Bense

A white vehicle peeks out of the water, its reflection around it

Why Calling the Texas Flooding ‘An Act of God’ Is a Dangerous Form of Political Denial

By Kiley Bense

An aerial view of the Pinyon Plain Mine operating within the Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument near Grand Canyon, Ariz. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Trump Administration Acts to ‘Severely Weaken’ a Key Environmental Law

By Kiley Bense, Wyatt Myskow

Trucks with the oil and gas industry drive through the countryside in Springville, Pa. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Truckers Say Oil and Gas Companies Are Violating Hazardous Materials Transport Regulations

By Kiley Bense

U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works is seen in the background of a neighborhood in Clairton, Pa. Credit: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

Air Pollution Is ‘Keeping Kids Out of School’ in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County, Study Shows

By Kiley Bense

Members of CEASRA, a local environmental group, demonstrate in front of the Tri-County Landfill in September 2023 in Grove City, Pa. Credit: Courtesy of Jane Cleary

Fearing Radioactive Waste, a Western Pennsylvania Community Fights to Stop a Landfill’s Re-Opening

By Kiley Bense

President Donald Trump tours U.S. Steel’s Irvin Works in West Mifflin, Pa., on Friday. Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

U.S. Steel Is a Major Source of Pollution in Pennsylvania. Will Its Sale Lock in Emissions for Another Generation?

By Kiley Bense

Wildfire victims seek services at a FEMA Disaster Recovery Center on Jan. 14 in Pasadena, Calif. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Hurricane Season Will Be Even Riskier for Undocumented People This Year

By Kiley Bense

Shell said April 25 that it would start using its “elevated flare this afternoon” at its Pennsylvania plastics plant and expected the work to continue through the weekend. This image was taken during that period. Credit: Hilary Starcher-O’Toole

Nighttime Flaring at Shell Plastics Plant Lit Up Beaver County ‘Like Dawn’

By Kiley Bense

President Donald Trump speaks alongside coal miners before signing executive orders about coal production at the White House on April 8 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images

In His First 100 Days, Trump Launched an ‘All-Out Assault’ on the Environment

By Kiley Bense, Bob Berwyn, Dennis Pillion, Georgina Gustin, Jake Bolster, Marianne Lavelle, Wyatt Myskow

Pope Francis arrives for the welcoming ceremony of a World Youth Day gathering in Lisbon, where he urged young Catholics to focus on caring for the planet and fighting climate change, on Aug. 3, 2023. Credit: Marco Bertorello/AFP via Getty Images

‘The Earth Loses a Defender’: Pope Francis Fought for the Poor and the Planet

By Kiley Bense

A view of a North Philadelphia neighborhood. Some neighborhoods face much higher temperatures in the summer than other areas of the city. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

Trump Administration Severs ‘Lifeline’ for Families Struggling to Pay Utility Bills

By Kiley Bense

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