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 DykstraPublisher
404-272-3304 or pdykstra@ehn.org
Press release announcing new Publisher, 26 May 2011

Marla ConeEditor in Chief
434-220-0348 ext 412  or mcone@ehn.org
Press release announcing new Editor in Chief, 15 September 2008

Pauli HayesManaging Editor

Lisa LeffertsSenior 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 MyersFounder
434-220-0348 ext 411

Douglas FischerEditor, 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
Michelle Lee
Emily Loffredo
Autumn Spanne
Miranda Spencer
Jesse Timberlake
Rae Tyson
Lori Valigra
Jen Vann

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 New York Community Trust
The Kendeda Fund
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund
The Beldon Fund
The Marisla Foundation
The John Merck Fund
The Alida R. Messinger Charitable Lead Trust

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
The V.K. Rasmussen Foundation
The Oak Foundation
The West Wind Foundation
The Overbrook Foundation
The Seachange Foundation
The Cornell Douglas Foundation

 

Contact


www.EnvironmentalHealthNews.org
Environmental Health News


421 Park St., Ste. 4
Charlottesville, Virginia 22902 USA 


434-220-0348 
434-220-0347 - fax

 

For comments, questions or suggestions about the site:
feedback@environmentalhealthnews.org

To submit story ideas, contact Editor in Chief Marla Cone: mcone@ehn.org