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Justice & Health

The systemic racial and economic inequalities that worsen the impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities around the globe.

Climate Activists Stage Mock Funeral for Landmark Climate Rule

The Trump EPA’s repeal of the 2009 endangerment finding revokes the agency’s authority to regulate climate pollution. Environmental activists are mourning the loss while vowing to resurrect it.

By Liza Gross

 “Lamentors” wear sackcloth and ash, mourning the Trump administration’s decision to overturn a landmark climate regulation rule, outside EPA Region 9 headquarters in San Francisco on Tuesday. Credit: ProBonoPhoto.org/Rachel Podlishevsky
A view of the POET Bioprocessing ethanol plant in Jewell, Iowa. Credit: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Iowa Moves to Shield Farmers, Ethanol Plants, From Lawsuits Over Emissions

By Anika Jane Beamer, Georgina Gustin
A chemical fire continues to burn at the Intercontinental Terminals Co. on March 19, 2019, in Deer Park, Texas. Credit: Godofredo A. Vásquez/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Chemical Threats Nearby? Trump’s EPA Doesn’t Want You to Know.

By Liza Gross
On April 1, Norway reopened its annual commercial whaling season. It is one of three countries, including Japan and Iceland, that still kill whales for profit. Credit: WDC/ESPA Hunt Monitoring 2025

Norway Reopens Annual Whale Hunt Despite Pressure to End Commercial Whaling

By Teresa Tomassoni
Kim Hicks paints a message opposing a proposed data center onto a neighborhood rock near the Project Ruby site in Muscogee County, Ga., part of a growing grassroots effort against the development. Credit: Courtesy of Kim Hicks

Data Center Boom Reaches West Georgia, Raising Questions Amid Mounting Opposition

By Jade Yeban
Diane Wilson sits in her tent, 14 days into her hunger strike, outside Dow’s Seadrift complex on March 16.

A Hunger Strike Ends, but an ‘Unreasonable’ Woman’s Battle Against Corporate Polluters Marches On

Story and photos by Dylan Baddour
The Harris Cattle Ranch feedlot, located along Interstate 5, is the largest producer of beef in California and can produce 150 million pounds of beef a year. Nearly 100,000 head of cattle are spread over 800 acres at this former family-run cattle company, now owned by the Central Valley Meat Company based in Hanford, CA. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

Cancer Rates Are Higher Near Large Livestock Feeding Operations in 3 States, a New Study Finds

By Steven Rodas
Nazir Khan, co-founder of the Minnesota Environmental Justice Table, speaks during a rally on Friday at the Hennepin County Government Center near City Hall to launch a hunger strike against a polluting trash incinerator. Credit: Courtesy of Geoff Dittberner/Zero Burn Coalition

Minneapolis Activists Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Polluting Trash Incinerator

By Keerti Gopal
Bison graze near the North Entrance of Yellowstone National Park. Credit: Jacob W. Frank/NPS

Meeting Climate Targets Requires Humanity to Reorient Its Relationship With Nature, New Study Says

By Jake Bolster
A close-up of the foam on a reflective surface

Severe Exposure to ‘Forever Chemicals’ During Pregnancy Could Lead to Childhood Asthma

By Keerti Gopal
A farmworker harvests strawberries in a field on March 31 near Oxnard, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

California Bill Aims to Keep Toxic PFAS off Its Crops

By Liza Gross
Lee Zeldin, keynote speaker at the Heartland Institute’s 16th International Conference on Climate Change, thanks attendees for electing Donald Trump. Credit: Gabriel Castilho/Inside Climate News

Zeldin Celebrates Endangerment Finding Repeal With Climate Skeptics

By Gabriel Matias Castilho
Water levels in Bruce Mumme’s well dropped below his pump last year, leaving him without access to water for three days while he found a technician to lower his pump, which cost thousands of dollars. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Corpus Christi Water Crisis Spurs Stampede on South Texas Aquifers

By Dylan Baddour
Demonstrators march during a “Hands off the EPA” rally outside the agency’s offices in Ann Arbor, Mich., on April 22, 2025. Credit: Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images

Trump’s Budget Proposes Massive Cuts for Climate and Environmental Programs

By Dylan Baddour
Workers survey the damage after flash floods collapsed a bridge in St. Johnsbury, Vt. Credit: Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

As Vermont Defends Its Law to Make Fossil Fuel Firms Pay for Climate Adaptation, the Bill Is Already Coming Due

By Dana Drugmand, Nathaniel Eisen
Pat Parenteau worked to secure protections for the whooping crane when the “God Squad” first met 50 years ago. Credit: Jon G. Fuller/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Why Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Is Not Like the God Squads Before It

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin (left) and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announce the EPA’s draft Contaminant Candidate List on Thursday in Washington, D.C. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

EPA Flags Microplastics as ‘Priority’ Water Contaminants, but the Move Doesn’t Guarantee Regulation

By Anika Jane Beamer
Craig Watts raised chicks on a factory farm for 20 years but left after he clashed with Perdue, the giant poultry company, over contract provisions and the welfare of the animals. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

Critics Call the Poultry Farming System Rigged. Craig Watts Is Fighting to Overturn It.

By Lisa Sorg
The Maui County Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic in Lahaina, Hawaii. Credit: Sean Hower/Civil Beat

Maui Mental Health Providers Face Stress and Uncertainty About State Jobs

By Keerti Gopal

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