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Deputy News Director Susan Sharon is a reporter and editor whose on-air career in public radio began as a student at the University of Montana. Early on, she also worked in commercial television doing a variety of jobs. Susan first came to Maine Public Radio as a State House reporter whose reporting focused on politics, labor and the environment. More recently she's been covering corrections, social justice and human interest stories. Her work, which has been recognized by SPJ, SEJ, PRNDI and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, has taken her all around the state — deep into the woods, to remote lakes and ponds, to farms and factories and to the Maine State Prison. Over the past two decades, she's contributed more than 100 stories to NPR.

NPR's Christopher Joyce reports on a new study of what children are being taught about the environment. The study says the environmental education needs to be overhauled because it's currently indocrinated with pro-environmental ideology. But supporters of current curricula say they're just presenting the facts.

Jeff Brady is a National Desk Correspondent based in Philadelphia, where he covers energy issues and climate change. Brady helped establish NPR's environment and energy collaborative which brings together NPR and Member station reporters from across the country to cover the big stories involving the natural world.

A variety of environmental, civic, recreational groups and some local governments started a push to get voters to approve a ballot measure that would put an environmental guarantee in the state constitution. The proposal would add language to mandate clean water, clean air, and a healthful environment.

NPR explores whether one version is better for the environment than the other.

Michael Shellenberger, co-author of a controversial essay "The Death of Environmentalism," argues the environmental movement needs to work on attracting popular support. He accuses environmentalists of losing sight of saving the environment amid political interests.

Eli Chen is the science and environment reporter at St. Louis Public Radio. She comes to St. Louis after covering the eroding Delaware coast, bat-friendly wind turbine technology, mouse love songs and various science stories for Delaware Public Media/WDDE-FM. Before that, she corralled robots and citizen scientists for the World Science Festival in New York City and spent a brief stint booking guests for Science Friday’s live events in 2013. Eli grew up in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, where a mixture of teen angst, a love for Ray Bradbury novels and the growing awareness about climate change propelled her to become the science storyteller she is today. When not working, Eli enjoys a solid bike ride, collects classic disco, watches standup comedy and is often found cuddling other people’s dogs. She has a bachelor’s in environmental sustainability and creative writing at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and has a master’s degree in journalism, with a focus on science reporting, from the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism.

Mark is a senior reporter/producer at Michigan Radio where he's been working to develop the station's online news content since 2010.

NPR's David Baron reports on the effects on the environment in Atlanta that will result from the staging of the Olympic Games there this month. Some of the benefits include the planting of more trees, extra traffic lanes and improved traffic control mechanisms. Yet fast-growing Atlanta will get a taste of its future as it tries to cope with the strains on its sewage system, air quality, and traffic that the large crowds and Olympic contigents will create.

New Yorkers have a right to clean water, clean air and a safe climate. That’s the message of a new ad campaign launched this week. The groups…