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New York Climate Advocates Celebrate Mamdani’s Victory, Prepare to Hold Him Accountable

For the first time in years, New York’s environmental justice advocates say they’ll be working with the city’s government—rather than against it.

By Carl David Goette-Luciak

New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani arrives for a news conference alongside members of his mayoral transition team at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens on Wednesday. Credit: Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaks during his election night watch party at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater on Tuesday in New York City. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

NYC Mayor-Elect Mamdani to Face Pressing Climate, Environment Issues

By Lauren Dalban

Charles Lee left the EPA after 26 years and has joined Howard University School of Law’s two-year-old Environmental and Climate Justice Center in Washington, D.C., as a visiting scholar. Credit: Darrow Montgomery/Inside Climate News

Leaving EPA Behind, Environmental Justice Pioneer Preaches Hope Amid Trump Cutbacks

By Marianne Lavelle

First responders rescue people from flooding in their homes on Aug. 10 after 13 inches of rain fell overnight in Wauwatosa, Wis. Credit: Andy Manis/Getty Images

15 Children in Wisconsin File the Latest Youth Lawsuit Citing Climate Dangers

By Dana Drugmand

Thousands of activists take to the streets of New York City for the “March to End Fossil Fuels” on Sept. 17, 2023. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

‘Make Billionaires Pay’ March Will Bring Together Climate and Social Justice Movements

By Ryan Krugman

Yuji Iwasawa (center), president of the International Court of Justice, issues the first advisory opinion on States’ legal obligations to address climate change in The Hague on Wednesday. Credit: John Thys/AFP via Getty Images

Governments Are Legally Required to Address Climate Change, Top Global Court Says

By Bob Berwyn, Katie Surma

Members of the Afro-descendant community in mangrove roots in Colombia. Credit: Conservation International

Want To Fight Climate Change? Give Afro-Descendant Communities Land Rights, New Report Says

By Katie Surma

Klie Kliebert (right) works with the Imagine Water Works team on plans for the climate justice nonprofit’s sanctuary farm in New Orleans’ Seventh Ward. Credit: Audrey Gray/Inside Climate News

Out in the Storm

By Audrey Gray

As Sea Levels Rise, an Island Nation Creates an Escape Route

By Kiley Price

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin testifies before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on May 20 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

A Class-Action Lawsuit Aims to Restore Climate and Environmental Grants

By Amy Green

Ayshka Najib (second from right), a climate activist based in the United Arab Emirates, protests at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai, UAE, in 2023. Credit: Courtesy of Ayshka Najib

The Ecofeminist Movement Is Surging. Here’s What Its Advocates Want

By Katie Surma

Frederique Seidel (left), World Council of Churches Senior Program Lead on Children and Climate and Peter Prove, WCC Director for International Affairs, at the handbook launch in April. Credit: Ivars Kupcis/WCC

A New Handbook Shows Churches How to Hold Fossil Fuel Actors Accountable

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

Carola Rackete looks into the Majdanpek copper mine in East Serbia. The mine, run by the Chinese company Zijin, has been linked to large scale pollution, river alteration and deficient environmental impact studies. Credit: Courtesy of Carola Rackete

The European Politician Bringing Nature Into the Halls of Power

By Katie Surma

Left-Wing 'Hactivists', Right-Wing Conservatives Work to Oppose Carbon Markets

By Stacy Feldman

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