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Justice & Health

The systemic racial and economic inequalities that worsen the impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities around the globe.

An aerial view of the VoltaGrid construction site next to the Severfarm data center in Covington, Ga. Credit: Michael A. Schwarz/SELC

Georgia’s First ‘Pop-Up’ Power Plant for Data Centers Faces Scrutiny

By Ryan Krugman

Workers at an EV battery recycling plant on May 16, 2023, in Weinan, China. Credit: VCG via Getty Images

China’s EV Problem: What Happens When Millions of Batteries Die?

By Andrew Liu

Aliza Karim from Miami Waterkeepers tests the water quality in the Little River on October 26, 2023, in Miami Dade County, Flordia. Credit: Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Most Florida Waterways Fail Water Quality Standards as Enforcement Lags

By Madeline Shaw

Visitors swim in the water at the Cenote Xkeken near Chichén Itzá in Yucatán, Mexico. Credit: Sebastian Kahnert/dpa via Getty Images

Mexican Cenotes Are in Danger

By Andrés Muedano

At the crux of the lawsuit is the permit’s lack of “representative monitoring” to detect the illegal entrance of pollutants into ground and surface water from CAFOs. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

A New Oregon Permit for Industrial Farms Violates the Clean Water Act, Advocates Allege

By Claire Barber

A carbon capture system is seen at a plant in Heidenheim, Germany, on July 23. Credit: Stefan Puchner/picture alliance via Getty Images

ExxonMobil Uses Corporate Arbitration System to Challenge Climate Solution It Promotes

By Katie Surma, Nicholas Kusnetz

Shirley Jackson sits for a photo in her SRO in San Francisco’s Seneca Hotel on Sixth Street. Jackson is experiencing health problems that are worsened by maintenance issues and pollution in her home. Credit: Neal Wong/San Francisco Public Press

State Vulnerability Metric Overlooks San Francisco Neighborhoods, Excluding Them From Billions in Funding

By Audrey Mei Yi Brown and Zhe Wu, San Francisco Public Press

A child looks out over Lake Michigan as smoke from Canadian wildfires blankets the Chicago on July 16. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

How Wildfire Smoke Is Reshaping Childhood

By Mosabber Hossain

A banner of President Donald Trump hangs from the Department of Justice headquarters on July 14 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Finn Gomez/Getty Images

DOJ’s Environmental Enforcement Has Collapsed in the Second Trump Administration, Former Attorneys Say

By Dana Drugmand

Sea lions swim in the Pacific Ocean as birds fly above near Morro Bay, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

California Marine Sanctuaries Face Threats of New Trump-Backed Offshore Oil Leases

By Avril Silva

Stacy Funderburke stands in front of a dragline on the southeastern edge of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia. Credit: Ryan Krugman/Inside Climate News

Inside a Land Deal That Saved the Okefenokee

By Ryan Krugman

Can Tech Keep Whales Safe From Deadly Vessel Strikes?

By Kiley Price

People watch a July 4 fireworks show that lit up the skies above Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. Credit: Gabriel Matias Castilho/Inside Climate News

D.C. Air Quality Was Among the Worst In the World Twice This Month. What Can the District Do to Improve It?

By Gabriel Matias Castilho

Traffic clogs a highway on Jan. 15 in Charlotte, N.C. Part of the Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grant Program was intended to help CleanAIRE NC install air quality monitors throughout Mecklenburg County. Credit: Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty Images

Federal Judge Orders EPA to Administer Environmental Justice Grants

By Lauren Dalban

Joni Lapahie and Dáilan Long, residents of the Burnham Chapter community on the Navajo Nation, speak at a press conference against a proposed coal mine expansion near their homes on July 20 at Window Rock, Ariz. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

Navajo Mine Applied for a Huge Expansion, but Tribal Members Say They’re Cut Out of the Permitting Process

By Wyatt Myskow

People work on a farm during a heat wave in Homestead, Fla., on July 15, 2023. Credit: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images

OSHA Proposed Heat Protections for Workers. Two Years Later, They’re Still Not Final.

By Amy Green

Fish swim through a reef at the Rose Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in American Samoa. Credit: Wendy Cover/NOAA

Trump Administration Wants to Hold World’s First Deep-Sea Mining Lease Sale 

By Teresa Tomassoni

Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, who represents the county where Marathon’s Martinez Renewables operates, visits striking workers in early May. Credit: Courtesy of USW Local 5

California Biofuel Refinery Workers Say Understaffing and Fatigue Threaten Their Safety and the Community

By Liza Gross

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