Amal Ahmed

Amal Ahmed is a journalist based in Dallas, covering climate and the environment. Previously, she was a reporter at the Texas Observer, and a fact-checker at Texas Monthly.

Frontline Communities Fight to Evict a Toxic Roofing Company

One of America’s largest shingle makers is pumping pollution into Black and brown communities from Texas to Minnesota

By Amal Ahmed January 8, 2025

In this story: toxics, environmental justice, social justice, racial justice

Janie Cisneros (left), who leads Singleton United/Unidos sits with four others in front of GAF on Earth Day 2024. The action was planned to raise awareness for a campaign aimed at closing the plant down. The shingles factory is one of the largest polluters in Dallas and has generationally affected the West Dallas neighborhood it operates in. | Photo by Johnathan Johnson

Carbon Capture and Storage at Fossil Plants Is Promoted as a Needed Climate Solution

But some advocates say it allows big polluters to do business as usual while hurting local communities

By Amal Ahmed October 11, 2023

In this story: oil, Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)

WA Parish Generating Station, a natural gas and coal power plant, in Fort Bend County near Houston, Texas

The Promise and Peril of Fueling the Clean Energy Transition

Could the green energy revolution start in one of the reddest states?

By Amal Ahmed August 14, 2023

In this story: clean energy, mining, mountaintop-removal mining, climate change, federal climate policy

Construction trucks haul and push dirt at the Shafter Mine Project.

Amal Ahmed

Frontline Communities Fight to Evict a Toxic Roofing Company

Carbon Capture and Storage at Fossil Plants Is Promoted as a Needed Climate Solution

The Promise and Peril of Fueling the Clean Energy Transition

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