For thousands of children exposed to toxic water, the real damage is invisible, slow, generational, and no check will erase it.
The federal government could take 37% of the interest on the settlement fund due to the trust classification.
Researchers for the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice found Texas' chemical plant expansion mostly affects people of color.
Environmental racism is defined as environmental injustice that occurs within a racialized context, both in practice and policy.
The order relaunches the Environmental Justice Screening tool and forms a council focused on environmental justice training for state employees.
The EPA’s declaration specifically targets Administrator Lee Zeldin for “undermining public trust” and “promoting a culture of fear.”
The lawsuit calls for a freeze on the development of further petrochemical plants in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley,” which is one of many examples of enviromental racism in this country.
Louisiana’s Black communities, my community, continue to reckon with systemic and environmental racism
Well-meaning federal processes haven't become well-doing.
Black and brown people are already disproportionately exposed to elevated levels of poor air quality.
'Small Doses' host Amanda Seales explores "green colonialism" and how climate change harms certain communities more than others.