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From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with the Rev. Ben Chavis, an environmental justice pioneer. In 1981, ...

Thanks to a generous donor, Grist will once again offer grants to newsrooms to report stories on rural America. This time, ...

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 ...

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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The state has set meetings to collect comment on its revised policy that seeks to clarify the definition of environmental justice, offer maps and data displaying communities’ environmental risks and ...

This law has been coined the "nation's strongest environmental justice law." It also marks a significant step in ensuring that environmental burdens are more equitably distributed and that ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Guy O. Williams, publisher of the first and only Detroit Climate Action Plan in 2017 and recipient ...

Nearly half of New York City’s population lives in neighborhoods that have been disproportionately harmed by environmental inequities, a new report found. And communities of color and low-income ...

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