Justice & Health
The systemic racial and economic inequalities that worsen the impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities around the globe.
This Summer’s Heatwaves Would Have Been ‘Almost Impossible’ Without Human-Caused Warming, a New Analysis Shows
By Bob Berwyn
A Catastrophic Flood on California’s Central Coast Has Plunged Already Marginalized Indigenous Farmworkers Into Crisis
By Liza Gross
After Litigation and Local Outcry, Energy Company Says It Will Not Move Forward with LNG Plant in Florida Panhandle
By Amy Green
Birmingham Public Transit Inches Forward With Federal Help, and No State Funding
By Marianne Lavelle
A Reckoning in North Birmingham as EPA Studies the ‘Cumulative Impacts’ of Pollution and Racism
By Vernon Loeb
Industry Wants New Pipeline on Navajo Land Scarred by Decades of Fossil Fuel Extraction
Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main
South Richmond Residents Oppose Fire Training Facility
By Ananya Chetia
Chicago Mayor Receives Blueprint for ’Green New Deal’ to Address Environmental Justice
By Aydali Campa
As East Harlem Waits for Infrastructure Projects to Mitigate Flood Risk, Residents Are Creating Their Own Solutions
By Juanita Gordon
As Texas Cranks Up the AC, Congested Transmission Lines Cause Renewable Power to Go to Waste
By Keaton Peters
Alabama Black Belt Becomes Environmental Justice Test Case: Is Sanitation a Civil Right?
By Dennis Pillion, AL.com
An Ohio Strip Mine’s Mineral Rights Are Under Unusual New Ownership
By Dani Kington and Keri Johnson, Athens County Independent
In a Montana Courtroom, Debate Over Whether States Can Make a Difference on Climate Change, and if They Have a Responsibility to Try
By Richard Forbes
Emergency Room Visits and 911 Calls for Heat Illness Spike During Texas Heat Wave
By Martha Pskowski, Gina Jiménez
‘Profit Over the Public’s Health’: Study Details Efforts by Makers of Forever Chemicals to Hide Their Harms
By Victoria St. Martin
Q&A: Heather McTeer Toney Reflects on the Ongoing Struggle for Environmental Justice in America
