Justice & Health
The systemic racial and economic inequalities that worsen the impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities around the globe.
‘Suezmax’ Oil Tankers Could Soon Be Plying the Poisoned Waters of Texas’ Lavaca Bay
By Aman Azhar
For the Second Time in Four Years, the Ninth Circuit Has Ordered the EPA to Set New Lead Paint and Dust Standards
By Agya K. Aning
California’s Relentless Droughts Strain Farming Towns
By Liza Gross
Extreme Heat Risks May Be Widely Underestimated and Sometimes Left Out of Major Climate Reports
By Bob Berwyn
Citing an ‘Imminent’ Health Threat, the EPA Orders Temporary Shut Down of St. Croix Oil Refinery
By Kristoffer Tigue
A U.S. Virgin Islands Oil Refinery Had Yet Another Accident. Residents Are Demanding Answers
By Kristoffer Tigue
A Just Transition? On Brooklyn’s Waterfront, Oil Companies and Community Activists Join Together to Create an Offshore Wind Project—and Jobs
By Nicholas Kusnetz
Expansion of I-45 in Downtown Houston Is on Hold, for Now, in a Traffic-Choked, Divided Region
By Aman Azhar
The Pandemic Exposed the Severe Water Insecurity Faced by Southwestern Tribes
By Judy Fahys
EPA to Send Investigators to Probe ‘Distressing’ Incidents at the Limetree Refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands
By Kristoffer Tigue
A New Program Like FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps Could Help the Nation Fight Climate Change and Transition to Renewable Energy
By Judy Fahys
The EPA Calls an Old Creosote Works in Pensacola an Uncontrolled Threat to Human Health. Why Is There No Money to Clean it Up?
By Agya K. Aning, Katie Surma, Kristoffer Tigue
Race, Poverty, Farming and a Natural Gas Pipeline Converge In a Rural Illinois Township
By Brett Chase
Will a Recent Emergency Methane Release Be the Third Strike for Weymouth’s New Natural Gas Compressor?
By Phil McKenna
The EPA Is Asking a Virgin Islands Refinery for Information on its Spattering of Neighbors With Oil
By Kristoffer Tigue
The First Native American Cabinet Secretary Visits the Land of Her Ancestors and Sees Firsthand the Obstacles to Compromise
By Judy Fahys
