About Environmental Health News
Mission, Staff, Funding and Programmatic Information
About |
EnvironmentalHealthNews.org, a foundation-funded journalism organization founded in 2002, is published daily.
Our daily e-letter, Above The Fold, is available for free.
Mission |
The mission of Environmental Health News is to advance the public’s understanding of environmental health issues by publishing its own journalism and providing access to worldwide news.
Environmental Health News advances the public’s understanding of environmental health issues, both by publishing our own articles and by providing access to worldwide news in the world press.EHN journalists are experienced environmental reporters. Their articles are published at EHN.org and also are provided to newspapers and other media. The content meets high journalistic standards and is under the control of Editor in Chief Marla Cone, an award-winning writer and one of the most experienced environmental journalists in the country. EHN also offers timely, daily access to hundreds of articles on environmental health topics published each day in the world press, and its searchable archives date back to 2002. EHN is funded by foundations and does not accept funding from interest groups.
Our syndication services are available for free and are used by more than 300 other websites around the world. Our enterprise articles have been published in a variety of other media, including the San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times and Scientific American. For more information on access to our articles, contact Marla Cone at mcone@ehn.org.
Staff |
Peter Dykstra, Publisher
404-272-3304 or pdykstra@ehn.org
Press release announcing new Publisher, 26 May 2011
Marla Cone, Editor in Chief
434-220-0348 ext 412 or mcone@ehn.org
Press release announcing new Editor in Chief, 15 September 2008
Pauli Hayes, Managing Editor
Lisa Lefferts, Senior Editor
Brett Israel, Senior Editor / Staff Writer
434-220-0348 ext 415
Brian Bienkowski, Senior Editor / Staff Writer
434-220-0348 ext 416
Laura Pyle Brunton, Assistant Editor / Trainer
Dana Dugan, Assistant Editor / Social Media
Wendy Hessler, Science Writer, Science Communication Fellows Program
Kara West, Administrative Manager / Special Projects
Todd Koym, Chief Technology Officer
John Peterson Myers, Founder
434-220-0348 ext 411
Douglas Fischer, Editor, DailyClimate.org
434-220-0348 ext 413
Research Team
| Senior Web Researchers Sasha Adkins Kathy Blachowski Ranajo Dezanett Megan McLaughlin Toni McLaughlin Allison Osterberg Susan W. Sprague | Web Researchers Anna Baker Carol Brown Mara Ferris Jim Germond Laura Hepting Fredric Kendrick Christine Keyser Lindsey Konkel | Bill Kovarik |
Contributors/Original Content
Barbara Fraser
Liza Gross
Cheryl Katz
Jane Kay
Lindsey Konkel
Rae Tyson
Environmental Health Sciences |
Science Communication Fellows Program
Researchers in our year-long training program translate and publish on ehn.org recent science findings that increase public awareness and understanding of the link among environment, human health and green chemistry. More...
Funding
Environmental Health Sciences, an umbrella group over EHN, has received grants from:
The Jenifer Altman Foundation | The David and Lucile Packard Foundation |
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To submit story ideas, contact Editor in Chief Marla Cone: mcone@ehn.org

