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Madeline Ostrander
Reporter and editor
I am a freelance journalist, a contributing editor to YES! Magazine, and a writer for The Nation. I write about issues like climate change, pollution, and the energy boom.
Articles
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A fish in city waters swims in the residues of urban waste. Eat a fish and you may get a dose of heavy metals, industrial chemicals and old pollutants like PCBs, which were banned decades ago but linger in the environment.
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Four decades after the passage of the Clean Water Act, regulators haven’t kept up with the pollution pressure that growing populations put on America’s shorelines. And that has major implications for the health of those communities who depend on these ecosystems.
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In the Pacific Northwest, are polluted waters and a diet of fish putting tribal people at risk for diseases like cancer? In the coming weeks, Washington state is likely to propose new water quality standards, which will renew public debate about how to protect coastal waters.