While the storm called attention to this inequality, residents of the city’s industrial areas, mostly Black and Latino and largely poor, were already used to having little control over the ...

Is the tri-partite Environmental Justice Framework exhausted to provide answers to the current challenges of urban environments? Critical environmental justice has emerged to question how current ...

Could you imagine living near a hazardous waste site or chemical manufacturing plant or a combination of other industrial polluters? Neither can we, yet this is the reality for so many. For ...

Though environmental justice (EJ) has been a cornerstone of the Biden Administration, it lacks federal enforcement laws. Executive orders and responses from federal agencies have shaped U.S.

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PORT ARTHUR, Tex.—Downtown Port Arthur has the feel of a ghost town, until you look to the horizon. Boarded-up buildings stand next to vacant lots, like missing teeth in a smile that faded decades ago ...

In 2023, the Biden Administration gave new teeth to the Environmental Justice Initiative. In April, President Biden issued Executive Order 14096 on “Revitalizing Our Nation’s Commitment to ...

Under the Biden administration, the environmental justice movement had a historic platform to bring clean water and air to communities that have suffered from pollution. It was a boon to the ...

When European settlers arrived in North Carolina and North America, they didn’t stumble upon a vacant wilderness, but a land that had been settled by Indigenous people over 10,000 years prior. The ...

FILE - PPL's Brunner Island coal-fired plant, on the west bank of Susquehanna River, in York Haven, Pa. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo) This story is part of the WHYY News Climate Desk, bringing you news ...

Elon Musk and Donald Trump have gutted federal environmental justice programs. Here’s what's at stake and how we’re fighting back. Elon Musk and Donald Trump have gutted federal environmental justice ...