Kristina Marusic

Kristina covers environmental health and justice issues in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania.

Prior to joining EHN, Kristina covered issues related to environment and social justice as a freelancer for a wide range of digital media outlets including the Washington Post, Slate, Vice, Women's Health, MTV News, The Advocate, and Bustle.

She lives in Pittsburgh, where she spends much of her free time kayaking the city's iconic three rivers, consuming coffee and eating adventurously.

Reach her at kmarusic@ehn.org

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Childhood cancer survivors are more likely to end up in the hospital from air pollution

A new study shows survivors are nearly twice as likely to get sick on bad air days

Editor's note: This is the fourth story in our series on cancer and air pollution in Southwestern Pennsylvania.

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Pittsburgh’s air quality continues to decline, new report finds

PITTSBURGH—For the second year in a row, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, was the only U.S. county outside of California to receive all F's in the American Lung Association's national air quality report card.

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More than 80 percent of waste from Pennsylvania’s oil and gas drilling stays in the state: Report

More than 80 percent of all waste from Pennsylvania's oil and gas drilling operations stays inside the state, according to a new study that tracked the disposal locations of liquid and solid waste from these operations over 26 years.

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After a decade of research, here’s what scientists know about the health impacts of fracking

Fracking has been linked to preterm births, high-risk pregnancies, asthma, migraine headaches, fatigue, nasal and sinus symptoms, and skin disorders over the last 10 years, according to a new study.

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Why is it taking so long to regulate toxic PFAS chemicals in Pennsylvania’s drinking water?

Editor's note: This story is part of an ongoing collaboration between Environmental Health News and PublicSource on PFAS contamination in Pennsylvania and was funded in part through the Bridge Pittsburgh Media Partnership.

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Residents shout down oil and gas execs over fracking at US Steel mill

Tensions ran hot Wednesday night during a community meeting about proposed fracking at the site of U.S. Steel's Edgar Thomson Steel mill in Braddock, 10 miles east of downtown Pittsburgh.

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Pittsburgh students go on strike to join international day of climate action

PITTSBURGH—More than a hundred Pittsburgh-area students went on strike today, skipping school to participate in an international day of protests to demand action on climate change.

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Childhood cancer survivors are more likely to end up in the hospital from air pollution

A new study shows survivors are nearly twice as likely to get sick on bad air days

Pittsburgh’s air quality continues to decline, new report finds

More than 80 percent of waste from Pennsylvania’s oil and gas drilling stays in the state: Report

Kids in Southwestern Pennsylvania are exposed to carcinogenic coke oven emissions at shockingly higher rates than the rest of the country

After a decade of research, here’s what scientists know about the health impacts of fracking

Why is it taking so long to regulate toxic PFAS chemicals in Pennsylvania’s drinking water?

Residents shout down oil and gas execs over fracking at US Steel mill

Pittsburgh students go on strike to join international day of climate action

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As legal cannabis spreads, growers go organic — and beyond

Pot prohibition is gradually lifting, but state and federal growing guidance is lacking. EHN visited West Coast growers committed to nudging the fledgling industry in a chemical-free, Earth-friendly direction.

Pennsylvania bill aims to ease PFAS-related drinking water charges

Proposed legislation would use funds from development on contaminated sites to help offset costs of cleaning tainted drinking water

“Our community is a fishing community:” Michigan tribe seeks to set its own water standards

The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, heavily reliant on fish, berries and wild rice, wants to join the 60 other US tribes who the feds have granted control over setting water regulations.

Report details PFAS contamination near Pittsburgh airport that ‘likely’ extends beyond military base boundaries

"The issue is that the chemicals will still very likely be in the groundwater 100 years from now unless someone cleans them up."

Peter Dykstra: A river burns through it

How an iconic environmental symbol grew through the power of myth.

A new study shows survivors are nearly twice as likely to get sick on bad air days

Summer interns, a new advisory board, and your suggestions for summer

Pot prohibition is gradually lifting, but state and federal growing guidance is lacking. EHN visited West Coast growers committed to nudging the fledgling industry in a chemical-free, Earth-friendly direction.

Proposed legislation would use funds from development on contaminated sites to help offset costs of cleaning tainted drinking water

The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, heavily reliant on fish, berries and wild rice, wants to join the 60 other US tribes who the feds have granted control over setting water regulations.

"The issue is that the chemicals will still very likely be in the groundwater 100 years from now unless someone cleans them up."

How an iconic environmental symbol grew through the power of myth.

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