Justice & Health
The systemic racial and economic inequalities that worsen the impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities around the globe.
Wastewater Treatment Plants Channel ‘Forever Chemicals’ Into Waterways Nationwide
By Anika Jane Beamer
Border Wall Plans at New Mexico’s Mount Cristo Rey Raise Environmental Concerns
By Martha Pskowski
N.C. Has Allowed a Likely Carcinogen Into Three Rivers Serving 900,000 People
By Lisa Sorg
Truckers Say Oil and Gas Companies Are Violating Hazardous Materials Transport Regulations
By Kiley Bense
A Class-Action Lawsuit Aims to Restore Climate and Environmental Grants
By Amy Green
The Danger of Losing the EPA’s Endangerment Finding
Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth
Chesapeake Bay Program Says No to Full Membership for Virginia Tribal Nations—for Now
By Aman Azhar
‘Systematically Failed’: Civil Society’s Latest Attempt to Reform UN Climate Talks
By Ryan Krugman
Trump Joins the Opposition to Vermont’s Climate Superfund Act, Calling it ‘Burdensome’ and ‘Ideologically Motivated’
By Nina Sablan
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