The real action is happening locally anyway, says Monique Harden, an environmental justice lawyer and advocate living in ...

In September 2022, Typhoon Merbok hit Alaska. Alaskan Native communities lost homes, critical food storage, and faced many catastrophic consequences. Philanthropy often responds to these types of ...

A new iteration of the Maryland Department of the Environment's environmental justice map has drawn concern from advocates, who say that some communities facing pollution issues are seeing lowered ...

The 100-acre Hartford landfill looms over I-91 in the North End. Closed in 2015 and nicknamed Mount Trashmore, the site is leaching PFAS chemicals into sewers, groundwater and the nearby Connecticut ...

Huey German-Wilson, Trinity-Houston Community President, is interviewed near large piles of trash and debris littering a narrow roadway in the Trinity Gardens neighborhood in northwest Houston, ...

The New School's interdisciplinary approach to climate action can be understood through the frames of environmental and climate justice. The climate crisis can be understood as a social justice crisis ...

Sacoby Wilson is the Director of T.H.E. EJ Lab at the University of Maryland. He is a recipient of one of this year's Heinz Awards. The Heinz Family Foundation recently announced the recipients of ...

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For those who fight for environmental justice, recent changes made to federal policy rolls back efforts to protect residents ...

This story is part of a Grist package examining how President Trump’s first 100 days in office have reshaped climate and environmental policy in the U.S., and is made possible through a partnership ...

John MacFarlane believes residents have too long dealt with various forms of pollution in underserved neighborhoods, particularly in the east Fort Worth and Northside communities. These areas of the ...

The dismissal of the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality’s first environmental justice coordinator has triggered a backlash against the agency’s director over what some employees say has been a ...