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Martha Pskowski

Martha Pskowski

Reporter, El Paso, Texas

Martha Pskowski covers climate change and the environment in Texas from her base in El Paso. She was previously an environmental reporter at the El Paso Times. She began her career as a freelance journalist in Mexico, reporting for outlets including The Guardian and Yale E360. Martha has a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Hampshire College and a master’s degree in Journalism and Latin American Studies from New York University. She is a former Fulbright research fellow in Mexico. Martha can be reached on Signal at psskow.33.

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A sign warns of dangerous hydrogen sulfide gas at a drilling site in the Permian Basin in August 2023. Exposure to high concentrations of the gas can be lethal. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

Texas Oilfield Company and Executive Plead Guilty in Hydrogen Sulfide Deaths

By Martha Pskowski

Tanks hold oilfield waste for disposal in the Permian Basin. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Texas Oil Drillers Can Bury Toxic Waste on Private Property Without Telling the Landowner. A New Bill Seeks to Change That

By Martha Pskowski

People stroll down Hidalgo Street to take a look at classic cars during the third annual Estos Vatos BorderTown Getdown car show in downtown Laredo on Saturday evening, March 22, 2025. Credit: Sam Owens/San Antonio Express-News

South Texas Developers Make a Sales Pitch to Sell Groundwater. Will Laredo Buy It?

By Martha Pskowski

An aerial view of a fracking pond in Clearfield County, Pa. Credit: Ted Auch/FracTracker Alliance

EPA Considers Giving Oil and Gas Companies More ‘Flexibility’ to Dispose of Highly Toxic Wastewater

By Martha Pskowski, Kiley Bense

An Oil Well Sinkhole Grows in the Permian Basin

By Martha Pskowski

A view of a large fracking operation with the Front Range of Colorado in the background in Loveland, Colo. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Colorado Will Require Oil and Gas Companies to Increase Water Recycling for Fracking

By Jake Bolster, Martha Pskowski

A rendering of the Pure Water Center, which broke ground on Feb. 27 and is expected to be operational by 2028. Credit: Courtesy of El Paso Water

El Paso Is Going to Turn Wastewater Into Drinking Water. Other Cities Will Soon Follow

By Martha Pskowski

Two wells of the Paxton Water Supply Corporation sit about 1,000 yards away from the proposed oilfield waste disposal site. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Railroad Commission Approves More Waste Disposal in East Texas

By Martha Pskowski

An oil pumpjack operates in the Permian Basin oil field in Odessa, Texas. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Project 2025 Advisor Takes the Reins at EPA Region 6

By Martha Pskowski

An aerial view of produced water ponds, used to treat and recycle wastewater from fracking, in Lenorah, Texas. Credit: Julian Mancha for The Texas Tribune/Inside Climate

Texas Regulators Finalize Oilfield Waste Rule

By Martha Pskowski

A firefighter sprays water on a house to protect it from the Eaton Fire in the Altadena neighborhood on Jan. 8, 2025 in Pasadena, Calif. Credit: Nick Ut/Getty Images

Misinformation Spreads Like Wildfire Online While LA Neighborhoods Burn

By Wyatt Myskow, Martha Pskowski

An aerial view of pecan orchards and alfalfa fields on the U.S.-Mexico border southeast of El Paso, Texas. Credit: Omar Ornelas

Border Agency Seeks Solutions With Mexico on Water, Sewage Problems

By Martha Pskowski

A Blanco resident pulls a water sample from their contaminated well, to compare it to bottled water in 2020 near Austin. Credit: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Texas Regulators Report More Than 250 New Cases of Groundwater Contamination

By Martha Pskowski

A view of a storage pond near Mentone in West Texas. Credit: Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Oil and Gas Waste ‘Oiled’ the Feathers of White Pelicans in Texas’ Permian Basin

By Martha Pskowski

Eric Selinger walks on his property near the Pecos River outside Imperial, Texas on Oct. 8. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

Can Recycled Oilfield Water Quench the Thirst of Drought-Stricken West Texas?

By Martha Pskowski

California voters cast their ballots at the Joslyn Park voting center on Tuesday in Santa Monica. Credit: Apu Gomes/Getty Images

Climate Initiatives Fare Well Across the Country Despite National Political Climate

By Lee Hedgepeth, Kristoffer Tigue, Lisa Sorg, Liza Gross, Martha Pskowski, Wyatt Myskow

The Elephant Butte Reservoir near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico stores Rio Grande water to be distributed to irrigation districts in Southern New Mexico and far West Texas. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

Texas Sued New Mexico Over Rio Grande Water. Now the States are Fighting the Federal Government

By Martha Pskowski

The Rio Grande winds through the Chihuahuan Desert in far west Texas. Diversions for agriculture and cities have reduced the flow by at least 70 percent compared to historical flow levels. Credit: Omar Ornelas

Holding Out Hope On the Drying Rio Grande

By Martha Pskowski

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