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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.

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

Two men sleep in a roadside bed during the heatwave in Kolkata, India on April 25, 2022. Maximum temperature was 38 degrees Celsius and minimum temperature in Kolkata was 28 degree Celsius according to an Indian Meteorological Department of Kolkata. Credit: Indranil Aditya/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Warmer Nights Caused by Climate Change Take a Toll on Sleep

By Victoria St. Martin

Commuters make their way along a street amid smoggy conditions early in the morning in Lahore, Pakistan on Dec. 17, 2021. Credit: Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images

Study Identifies Outdoor Air Pollution as the ‘Largest Existential Threat to Human and Planetary Health’

By Victoria St. Martin

A pregnant woman receives an exam from her doctor. Biomonitoring studies have measured at least 43 chemicals from diverse classes of chemical compounds in 99-100% of pregnant women in the United States. Credit: Jason Connolly/AFP via Getty Images

Fossil Fuels Aren’t Just Harming the Planet. They’re Making Us Sick

By Liza Gross, Victoria St. Martin

Robert Taylor, executive director of the Concerned Citizens of St. John (right) speaks with EPA Administrator Michael Regan as he meets with members of the Concerned Citizens of St. John during his “Journey to Justice” tour. Photo courtesy of the EPA

EPA Opens Civil Rights Investigation Into Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’

By Victoria St. Martin

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