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.
From Louisiana to Pennsylvania, Tracing Plastics Pollution Back to Its Source
By Kiley Bense
EPA Considers Giving Oil and Gas Companies More ‘Flexibility’ to Dispose of Highly Toxic Wastewater
By Martha Pskowski, Kiley Bense
Microplastics Lurk in Freshwater Environments Across Pennsylvania
By Kiley Bense
Taking It to the Streets: Scientists Mobilize to Fight Trump’s ‘Unprecedented’ Anti-Science Agenda
By Liza Gross, Bob Berwyn, Dennis Pillion, Kiley Bense, Lauren Dalban, Lisa Sorg
Trump’s Executive Order on Forests ‘A Devastating Blow,’ Activists Say
By Kiley Bense
Pollution From a Pennsylvania Landfill Caused Problems for Decades. Fracking Waste Made It Worse
By Kiley Bense
The ‘Horror Story’ of Hazardous Waste in a Small Pennsylvania Town
By Kiley Bense
Pennsylvania’s New Energy Plan a ‘Betrayal’ to Those on the Front Lines, Critics Say
By Kiley Bense
Mid-Atlantic States Prepare for More Billion-Dollar Disasters as Trump Considers Cutting Emergency Funding
By Kiley Bense
Norfolk Southern Rail Bridges in Western Pennsylvania in Disrepair, Study Warns
By Kiley Bense
Executive Orders on Energy and Climate Have Advocates Across the Nation on Edge
By Dan Gearino, Aman Azhar, Amy Green, Dylan Baddour, Jake Bolster, Keerti Gopal, Kiley Bense, Lauren Dalban, Lisa Sorg, Liza Gross, Marianne Lavelle, Nicholas Kusnetz, Phil McKenna
‘Virtually Any City on Earth Can Burn Now’
By Kiley Bense
Elevated Levels of Radium Found in Western Pennsylvania’s Freshwater Mussels
By Kiley Bense
Climate Change Has Dangerously Supercharged Fires, Hurricanes, Floods and Heat Waves. Why Didn’t It Come Up More in the Presidential Campaign?
By Kiley Bense, Georgina Gustin, Liza Gross, Marianne Lavelle, Phil McKenna
Adding up the Public Health Costs of Using Coal to Make Steel
By Kiley Bense
Polling Shows Pennsylvania Voters Are Divided on Fracking
By Kiley Bense
