environmental justice

The disproportionate threats extreme weather brings to BIPOC communities are specifically evident in Louisiana, writes Ashley Shelton, CEO of the Power Coalition for Equity & Justice.

The historic buildings and cultural properties of this place will be forever lost. But the stories of Hawaiian sacred places will live on.

Well-meaning federal processes haven't become well-doing.

Black and brown people are already disproportionately exposed to elevated levels of poor air quality.

Residents from Detroit's Core City neighborhood are banding together to oppose a planned concrete crushing facility.

The program provides each participant with $20,000, mentorship and opportunities for collaboration. 

The EPA is opening a new office that it says will double down on environmental justice efforts.

Environmental racism is defined as environmental injustice that occurs within a racialized context both in practice and policy.

Overcoming the legacy of environmental racism will take a collective reckoning; something legislation cannot address on its own.

Here are four popular New Year’s resolutions with a twist for improving your relationship with nature in 2022 and beyond.

"The plant will be an additional source of air pollution in a community of color that already has one of the highest rates of asthma hospitalizations in the state."

A new EPA report confirmed that Black people face the highest risk of deaths from the effects of climate change that result in high temperatures and natural disasters not unlike Hurricane Ida.