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Victoria St. Martin

Victoria St. Martin

Health and Environmental Justice Reporter, Philadelphia

Victoria St. Martin covers health and environmental justice at Inside Climate News. During a 20-year career in journalism, she has worked in a half dozen newsrooms, including The Washington Post where she served as a breaking news and general assignment reporter. Besides The Post, St. Martin has also worked at The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, The Trentonian, The South Bend Tribune and WNIT, the PBS-member station serving north central Indiana. In addition to her newsroom experience, St. Martin is also a journalism educator who spent four years as a distinguished visiting journalist with the Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy at the University of Notre Dame. She currently teaches at the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University. St. Martin is a graduate of Rutgers University and holds a master’s degree from American University’s School of Communication. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011 and has written extensively about the prevalence of breast cancer in young women. In her work, St. Martin is particularly interested in health care disparities affecting Black women.

Gas-burning stoves are offered for sale at a home improvement store on this month in Chicago. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images.

How Gas Stoves Became Part of America’s Raging Culture Wars

By Victoria St. Martin

Air pollution in the U.S. Credit: plus49/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images

After a Decade, Federal Officials Tighten Guidelines on Air Pollution

By Victoria St. Martin

A photo illustration of tap water in a clear glass drinking glass. Credit: Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images

Study: Higher Concentrations Of Arsenic, Uranium In Drinking Water In Black, Latino, Indigenous Communities

By Victoria St. Martin, Aydali Campa

Schuylkill Banks recreation path in a revitalized industrial area with the Vicinity Thermal Energy Plant in the background in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Credit: Jumping Rocks/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Behavioral Scientists’ Appeal To Climate Researchers: Study The Bias

By Victoria St. Martin

Flames from gas burners are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on Oct. 11, 2021. Credit: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Citing Health and Climate Concerns, Activists Urge HUD To Remove Gas Stoves From Federally Assisted Housing

By Victoria St. Martin

A view of the U.S. Steel Edgar Thomson Works on Jan. 21, 2020, in North Braddock, Pennsylvania. White plumes of smoke billow above western Pennsylvania's rolling hills into the frigid air as scorching ovens bake coal, which rolls in by the trainload along the Monongahela River. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

Tiny Soot Particles from Fossil Fuel Combustion Kill Thousands Annually. Activists Now Want Biden to Impose Tougher Standards

By Victoria St. Martin

Pascale Fisher, a family nurse practitioner, checks a baby’s heartbeat at La Clínica's San Antonio Neighborhood Health Center in Oakland. Credit: Ana Homonnay/La Clínica de La Raza, Inc.

New Toolkit of Health Guidance Helps Patients and Care Providers on the Front Lines of Climate Change Prepare for Wildfires

By Victoria St. Martin

In Atlanta, voters check-in with poll workers to cast their ballots at the Metropolitan Library on November 3, 2020. Credit: Jessica McGowan/Getty Images

Poll: Climate Change Is a Key Issue in the Midterm Elections Among Likely Voters of Color

By Victoria St. Martin

Floodwaters cover an access road to oil refineries Sept. 25, 2005 in Port Arthur, Texas in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita. Credit: Stan Honda/AFP via Getty Images

In Texas, a New Study Will Determine Where Extreme Weather Hazards and Environmental Justice Collide

By Victoria St. Martin

Smoke billows up from power plants alongside the tracks in Northern Virginia. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

Lung Cancer in Nonsmokers? Study Identifies Air Pollution as a Trigger

By Victoria St. Martin

The flooded Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans, Louisiana is seen in the days after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005. Credit: Dina Rudick/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Amid the Devastation of Hurricane Ian, a New Study Charts Alarming Flood Risks for U.S. Hospitals

By Victoria St. Martin

A nonstick cooking wok on stovetop in Lafayette, California, March 7, 2022. PFAS, known as "forever chemicals," are commonly used in household items such as nonstick pans, cleaning products and stain-resistant coatings on fabrics and carpet. Credit: Gado/Getty Images

Ubiquitous ‘Forever Chemicals’ Increase Risk of Liver Cancer, Researchers Report

By Victoria St. Martin

A laborer quenches his thirst with water from a bottle on a street amid rising temperatures in New Delhi on May 27, 2020. Credit: Jewel Samad/AFP via Getty Images

Without Significant Greenhouse Gas Reductions, Countries in the Tropics and Subtropics Could Face ‘Extreme’ Heat Danger by 2100, a New Study Concludes

By Victoria St. Martin

A car drives by a home with a nearby derrick drilling for natural gas near Calvert, Pennsylvania. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Study: Pennsylvania Children Who Live Near Fracking Wells Have Higher Leukemia Risk

By Victoria St. Martin

Cars make their way toward downtown Los Angeles, notorious for traffic and air pollution, a silent killer now linked to brain development problems in young children. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images.

Study Underscores That Exposure to Air Pollution Harms Brain Development in the Very Young

By Victoria St. Martin

Debbie Robinson sits for a portrait in her bedroom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 1, 2022. Credit: Caroline Gutman/Deep Indigo Collective for Inside Climate News

A Vast Refinery Site in Philadelphia Is Being Redeveloped and Called ‘The Bellwether District.’ But for Black Residents Nearby, Justice Awaits

By Victoria St. Martin

Smoke pours out of towers of the Phillips 66 Bayway oil refinery along the New Jersey Turnpike in Linden, New Jersey, Dec. 11, 2019. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

In An Unusual Step, a Top Medical Journal Weighs in on Climate Change

By Victoria St. Martin

Health workers screen passengers arriving from abroad for monkeypox symptoms at Anna International Airport terminal in Chennai on June 03, 2022. Credit: Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images

As Animals Migrate Because of Climate Change, Thousands of New Viruses Will Hop From Wildlife to Humans—and Mitigation Won’t Stop Them

By Victoria St. Martin

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