Justice & Health
The systemic racial and economic inequalities that worsen the impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities around the globe.
In Youngstown, a Downtown Tire Pyrolysis Plant Is Called a ‘Recipe for Disaster’
By James Bruggers
New York Activists Descend on the Hamptons to Protest the Super Rich Fueling the Climate Crisis
By Keerti Gopal
The One-Mile Rule: Texas’ Unwritten and Arbitrary Policy Protects Big Polluters from Citizen Complaints
By Dylan Baddour
Plagued by Floods and Kept in the Dark, a Black Alabama Community Turns to a Hometown Hero for Help
By Kristoffer Tigue
New York, LA, Chicago and Houston, the Nation’s Four Largest Cities, Are Among Those Hardest Hit by Heat Islands
By Aydali Campa
Baltimore Won’t Expand a Program to Help Residents Clean up After Sewage Backups
By Aman Azhar
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
