Justice & Health
The systemic racial and economic inequalities that worsen the impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities around the globe.
Peeling Back the Curtain on Big Plastic’s False Solutions
By Liza Gross
Greeks Challenge EU-Backed Fish Farms Amid Environmental Concerns
By Moira Lavelle
Petrochemical Expansion in Texas Will Fall Heavily on Communities of Color, Study Finds
By Dylan Baddour
N.C. Regulators Say Trump’s Proposed Repeal of the Endangerment Finding Would Increase ‘Criteria’ Air Pollutants
By Lisa Sorg
Old-Growth Forest in New Jersey at Center of Affordable Housing Debate
By Ryan Krugman
Texas Workers Keep Dying in the Heat
By Martha Pskowski, Keerti Gopal
Maine Was First To Ban Spreading PFAS-Contaminated Sludge on Farmland. Now Sludge Is Filling up Landfills.
By Sydney Cromwell
How China Silences Environmental Reporters Beyond Its Borders
By Katie Surma
COP30 Backpedals on Climate Action
By Bob Berwyn
A New Tropical Forest Fund Will Pay Countries, Locals and Indigenous Tribes to Protect Their Trees
Interview by Steve Curwood and Jenni Doering, Living on Earth
Growing Tensions with Air Regulator Lead Top California Environmental Justice Advisor to Resign
By Blanca Begert
California Is Finally Updating Its Methane Landfill Rule
By Liza Gross
US Is (Officially) Gone, But Not Forgotten, at COP30
By Bob Berwyn
Gas Pipeline Proposals in Virginia Multiply Through the South—and Worry Community Activists
By Charles Paullin
As Seas Rise, So Do the Risks From Toxic Sites
By Liza Gross
Bill McKibben on the State-Led Efforts to Make Big Oil Pay Up
By Carrie Klein