Justice

The Biden Administration’s Embrace of Environmental Justice Has Made Wary Activists Willing to Believe

“I could not have predicted this,” says Vernice Miller-Travis, who gathered data for a seminal 1987 study, “Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States.”

By Agya K. Aning

Climate Activists Target a Retrofitted ‘Peaker Plant’ in Queens, Decrying New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure

By Kristoffer Tigue

A Triple Whammy Has Left Many Inner-City Neighborhoods Highly Vulnerable to Soaring Temperatures

By James Bruggers

To Flee, or to Stay Until the End and Be Swallowed by the Sea

By Dalia Faheid, Katie Livingstone

‘There Are No Winners Here’: Drought in the Klamath Basin Inflames a Decades-Old War Over Water and Fish

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

Houston’s Mayor Asks EPA to Probe Contaminants at Rail Site Associated With Nearby Cancer Clusters

By Aman Azhar

For Farmworkers, Heat Too Often Means Needless Death

By Liza Gross

An Indigenous Group’s Objection to Geoengineering Spurs a Debate About Social Justice in Climate Science

By Haley Dunleavy

Two Years After a Huge Refinery Fire in Philadelphia, a New Day Has Come for its Long-Suffering Neighbors

By Daelin Brown

In Corpus Christi’s Hillcrest Neighborhood, Black Residents Feel Like They Are Living in a ‘Sacrifice Zone’

By Aman Azhar

A Deadly Summer in the Pacific Northwest Augurs More Heat Waves, and More Deaths to Come

By Bob Berwyn, James Bruggers, Liza Gross

Global Warming Cauldron Boils Over in the Northwest in One of the Most Intense Heat Waves on Record Worldwide

By Judy Fahys, Bob Berwyn

As the US Pursues Clean Energy and the Climate Goals of the Paris Agreement, Communities Dependent on the Fossil Fuel Economy Look for a Just Transition

By Judy Fahys

The US Nuclear Weapons Program Left ‘a Horrible Legacy’ of Environmental Destruction and Death Across the Navajo Nation

By Cheyanne M. Daniels

Incursions Into Indigenous Lands Not Only Threaten Tribal Food Systems, But the Planet’s Well-Being

By Georgina Gustin

New York Embarks on a Massive Climate Resiliency Project to Protect Manhattan’s Lower East Side From Sea Level Rise

By Brahmjot Kaur

Indigenous Leaders and Human Rights Groups in Brazil Want Bolsonaro Prosecuted for Crimes Against Humanity

By Katie Surma

Without ‘Transformative Adaptation’ Climate Change May Threaten the Survival of Millions of Small Scale Farmers

By Georgina Gustin

Is the Controlled Shrinking of Economies a Better Bet to Slow Climate Change Than Unproven Technologies?

By Bob Berwyn