Justice & Health
The systemic racial and economic inequalities that worsen the impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities around the globe.
Black Residents Want This Company Gone. Will Alabama’s Environmental Agency Approve a New Permit?
By Patrick Darrington
The EPA Cleaned Up the ‘Valley of the Drums’ Outside Louisville 45 Years Ago. Why Did it Leave the ‘Gully of the Drums’ Behind?
By James Bruggers
California Leads the Nation in Emissions of a Climate Super-Pollutant, Study Finds
By Phil McKenna, Liza Gross
As Legal Challenges Against the Fossil Fuel Industry Notch Some Successes, Are Livestock Companies the Next Target?
By Georgina Gustin
Q&A: Ronald McKinnon Made It From Rural Alabama to the NFL. Now He Wants To See His Flooded Hometown Get Help
By Lee Hedgepeth
Bird Flu Is Picking its Way Across the Animal Kingdom—and Climate Change Could Be Making it Worse
By Kiley Price
Kraft Heinz Faces Shareholder Vote On Its ‘Deceptive’ Recycling Labels
By James Bruggers
PFAS Is an Almost Impossible Problem to Tackle—and It’s Probably in Your Food
Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth
International Court Issues First-Ever Decision Enforcing the Right to a Healthy Environment
By Katie Surma
Mining Fight on the Okefenokee Swamp’s Edge May Have Only Just Begun
By Drew Kann, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Potential Changes to Alternate-Fuel Standards Could Hike Gas Prices in California. Critics See a ‘Regressive Tax’ on Low-Income Communities
By Emma Foehringer Merchant
California’s Latino Communities Most at Risk From Exposure to Brain-Damaging Weed Killer
By Liza Gross
This Month’s Superfund Listing of Abandoned Uranium Mines in the Navajo Nation’s Lukachukai Mountains Is a First Step Toward Cleaning Them Up
By Noel Lyn Smith
Environmentalists Sue to Block Expansion of New York State’s Largest Landfill
By Peter Mantius
Aruba Embraces the Rights of Nature and a Human Right to a Clean Environment
By Katie Surma
An American Who Managed a Shrimp Processing Plant in India Files a Whistleblower Complaint With U.S. Authorities
By Ian Urbina, Maya Martin, Jake Conley, Joe Galvin, Susan Ryan and Austin Brush
