Justice & Health
The systemic racial and economic inequalities that worsen the impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities around the globe.
A Toxic Landfill Was on the Brink of Expanding. Residents Fought Back and Won
By Christiana Freitag
Court Temporarily Halts Land Transfer That Would Allow a Mine to Destroy Western Apache Sacred Land
By Wyatt Myskow
‘Make Billionaires Pay’ March Will Bring Together Climate and Social Justice Movements
By Ryan Krugman
The Smoldering, Noxious Waste Dump Next Door
By Liza Gross
The Chinese Dam Threatening the World’s Most Endangered Ape
By Nicholas Kusnetz
El Paso’s Heat Is Killing in Record Numbers. It May Only Get Worse
Story by Martha Pskowski, photos by Paul Ratje
Tribal Solar Projects Meet Different Fates in Wyoming After Trump Administration Kills Funding
By Jake Bolster
From Landfills and Recycling Programs to Desks in Offices, Toxic Chemicals in Plastics Poison Workers
By Liza Gross
‘It Didn’t Have to Be This Way’: After Another Explosion at Clairton Coke Works, Advocates Call for Accountability
By Kiley Bense
Plastic Pollution Talks in Geneva End Without Treaty
By Bob Berwyn
New York Already Denied Permits to These Gas Pipelines. Under Trump, They Could Get Greenlit
By Deep Vakil
Chicago Aims To Have Most Air Pollution Sensors in the US
By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times
US Guts Criticism of Indigenous Rights Abuses, Mentions of Climate Change From Annual Human Rights Reports
By Katie Surma, Peter Aldhous
An Environmental Justice Test Case for Trump’s EPA: A Creek That Smells Like Death
By Lisa Sorg
RAGBRAI, the World’s Largest Recreational Bike Ride, Is Getting Hotter and Harder
By Anika Jane Beamer
Will Endangerment Finding Repeal Trigger New State Actions on Climate?
By Marianne Lavelle