Justice & Health
The systemic racial and economic inequalities that worsen the impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities around the globe.
Bonn Climate Talks Rife With Roadblocks and Dead Ends
By Bob Berwyn
How Do You Escape a Heat Wave When You Have Nowhere to Go?
By Keerti Gopal
Five Years After Pennsylvania’s Landmark Fracking Report, Its Public Health Goals Remain Largely Unmet, Groups Say
By Jon Hurdle
Chicago’s Plan to Replace Lead Pipes Puts It 30 Years Behind the Federal Deadline
By Keerti Gopal, Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco
Huge Public Land Sale Stripped from Senate Bill—For Now—But Assault on Federal Land Protections Continues
By Wyatt Myskow
Amid Brutal Heat Wave, Officials Stress Health Risks of Hot Nights
By Kiley Price
In North Carolina, Exploding Bulbs and Fridges on the Fritz Reveal a Town’s Fraying Electric System
By Lisa Sorg
A New York Rooftop Blossoms with Lessons About Food Literacy
By Ryan Krugman
In California, a Push to Decommission Gas Lines in Low-Income Neighborhoods Moves Forward
By Twilight Greenaway
The Ecofeminist Movement Is Surging. Here’s What Its Advocates Want
By Katie Surma
Alabama Environmental Groups Secure Rare Win in Fight to Update Water Toxicity Standards
By Dennis Pillion
As Wildfires Increase, NJ Considers the Impact on Public Health
By Anna Mattson
Pollution, Not Drought, Prompts Lawn-Watering Ban in Des Moines
By Anika Jane Beamer
Juneteenth and Its Role in Environmental Justice—for All
Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth
An Alabama City Recommends Changing Its Laws to Accommodate One of the Country’s Largest Proposed Data Centers
By Lee Hedgepeth
At UN Ocean Conference, Nations and Funders Seek to Create and Expand Large-Scale Marine Protected Areas
By Teresa Tomassoni
