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 ...

You might think of environmental justice as an old concept, old as the environmental movement itself. Surely, you say, the father of environmental justice is long gone, his lessons passed down through ...

SNAP, or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, was created to assist vulnerable communities in gaining access to healthy foods. In Washington state— and across the country— rural, low-income ...

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 ...

What is environmental justice? The term is closely linked to social justice and ongoing efforts to undo the effects of systemic racism. Just as access to good housing, well-maintained infrastructure, ...

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 ...

If you were to believe reporting from The New York Times—which is an increasingly unwise idea—the Trump administration is ...

City Limits’ climate reporter Mariana Simões spoke with WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show about her recent reporting on the Trump administration’s decision to layoff staff at the U.S. Environmental ...

Discover how environmental justice advocates are addressing the harmful effects of environmental racism and building ...

Connecticut is in the midst of rewriting its environmental justice regulations for the first time since the inaugural regulations were enacted fifteen years ago. The Department of Energy and ...

The cause to stop Sable is a pursuit of sustainability — if restarted, the pipeline could double Santa Barbara County’s ...

The departure points to an intractable conflict between environmental justice groups and the California Air Resources Board ...