Under the Biden administration, the environmental justice movement had a historic platform to bring clean water and air to communities that have suffered from pollution. It was a boon to the ...
When Michigan wrestled with some of the worst environmental crises in the state’s modern history, women have been on the ...
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Professor, author, and advocate Dr. Robert Bullard says he came into the field by accident through a boots-on-the-ground field project he assigned his grad students in the ...
In 2018, hundreds of thousands of protesters joined France's yellow vest movement against French President Emmanuel Macron’s carbon tax hike. (Photo by Christophe Leung / CC BY 2.0) This is your first ...
I’M KAREN HOLMES WARD. WELCOME TO CITYLINE. SO AS WE GRAPPLE WITH THE DISPROPORTIONATE IMPACT CLIMATE CHANGE HAS ON PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES OF COLOR, WE REFLECT ON THE LEGACY OF DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER ...
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, ...
Tucked inside the Altgeld Gardens public housing project on Chicago’s far South Side, there’s a yellow brick wall filled with hundreds of names. It stands as a memorial to the friends and family ...
When the Trump administration terminated the nearly $2 billion EPA Community Change Grant Program earlier this year, organizations across the nation lost millions of dollars in environmental justice ...
Theologian, author and activist Benjamin Chavis spoke Wednesday at Wake Forest University's environmental justice summit in Winston-Salem. Chavis was wrongfully imprisoned in 1972 as a member of the ...
Passed in 2020, the law requires environmental regulators to consider the effect of projects on overburdened poor and minority communities, as well as the cumulative impact of pollution from all ...
If you were to believe reporting from The New York Times—which is an increasingly unwise idea—the Trump administration is diverting the attention of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from poor ...