Lylla Younes

Lylla Younes was a reporter and developer on ProPublica’s news apps team. Her work mapping cancer-causing industrial pollution in Louisiana helped lead to the suspension of Formosa Plastic's permit in St. James Parish and won the 2020 Nina Mason Pulliam Award for Outstanding Environmental Reporting. In 2020, she was part of a team that wrote a peer-reviewed paper linking COVID-19 deaths to air pollution. She has also collaborated with the Oregonian and OPB on a series about how Oregon's timber industry hollows rural communities. The series won the 2021 John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism. She was previously a data reporter with New York Public Radio (WNYC) and Gothamist.
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Chemical disasters. Climate change A factory expelling pollution into a dark, dismal sky
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The EPA wants to roll back a rule that’s essential for protecting you from chemical disasters

Few regulations have been as subject to the yo-yo of successive presidential administrations and their…

Lee Zeldin and Donald Trump
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Trump picked Lee Zeldin to lead the EPA. What will that mean for environmental policy?

What to expect: deregulation justified as boosts for the economy, and platitudes about the importance…

Mississippi National Guard Soldiers distributes water at the Metrocenter Mall in Jackson, Mississippi, Sept. 2, 2022. Nearly 20,000 cars received water on the first day of the operation, consisting of seven sites through Jackson for people to collect bottled water, hand sanitizer and non-potable water from water buffalo trucks.
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A Pot of Unspent Federal Money Could Have Prevented Jackson’s Water Crisis

Contrary to EPA’s report, a new report by researchers at the Project for Government Oversight,…