environmental justice

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.

Residents of Centreville, Ill., have been locked in a decades-long battle to get the local government to correct issues with raw sewage discharges flooding yards and basements.

Brenda Mallory, the first Black chair of the Council on Environmental Quality, says new guidance for the Justice40 Initiative gives federal agencies a framework for ensuring historically underinvested communities receive at least 40% of the benefits from climate change and clean energy projects.

Micheal Regan, Joe Biden's pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, is uniquely qualified to tackle environmental racism and justice from Day 1.

President Donald Trump and his new administration have made major changes to the White House website, rehashing many of his campaign promises. The move came right after Trump took the oath of office Friday.