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Environmental Justice

U.S. President Joe Biden and Catherine Coleman Flowers, founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, arrive for an event at the White House on April 21, 2023. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Some Americans Don’t Have the Ability to Flush Their Toilets. A Federal Program Aimed at Helping Solve That Problem Is Expanding

By Lee Hedgepeth

The Motiva oil refinery, the largest in the United States, looms over a residential neighborhood in Port Arthur, Texas. Credit: James Bruggers/Inside Climate News

 ‘A Dream Deferred:’ 30 Years of U.S. Environmental Justice in Port Arthur, Texas

By James Bruggers

A large detention pond (bottom center) often overflows onto residents' properties, even in moderate rain. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

How Racism Flooded Alabama’s Historically Black Shiloh Community

By Lee Hedgepeth

Adam Ortiz (center), EPA's Region 3 administrator, flanked by Democratic Rep. Jennifer McClellan of Virginia’s 4th district and members of the nonprofit Virginia Community Voice visited a vacant elementary school building in South Richmond, which the community group has proposed to turn into a community space. Credit: Aman Azhar/Inside Climate News

A Year Before Biden’s First Term Ends, Environmental Regulators Rush to Aid Disinvested Communities

By Aman Azhar

Dr. Cornel West attends the March to End Fossil Fuels in New York City on Sept. 17, 2023, ahead of the Climate Ambition Summit. Credit: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images

Dr. Cornel West Is Running to Become President of the United States. What Are His Views on Climate Change and the Environment?

By Lee Hedgepeth

Hazel Chandler is part of a largely unrecognized contingent of the climate movement in the United States: the climate grannies. Credit: Caitlin O’Hara/The 19th

These Are the Climate Grannies. They’ll Do Whatever It Takes to Protect Their Grandchildren

By Jessica Kutz, The 19th

A solar power facility in Chicago. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Green Energy Justice Cooperative Selected to Develop Solar Projects for Low Income, BIPOC Communities in Illinois

By Lydia Larsen

As Texas leads the nation in Black growth, Tiara Dawson, a newcomer, acknowledges that many lack the survival skills needed for the state's increasing number of climate disasters. Credit: Riot Muse

Moving South, Black Americans Are Weathering Climate Change

By Adam Mahoney, Capital B

Catherine Coleman Flowers, founding director of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2020 and one of TIME’s 100 most influential people of 2023. Credit: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Q&A: Catherine Coleman Flowers Talks COP28, Rural Alabama, and the Path Toward a ‘Just Transition’

By Lee Hedgepeth

People walk along the beach looking at property damaged by Hurricane Ian on September 29, 2022 in Bonita Springs, Florida. The storm made a U.S. landfall on Cayo Costa, Florida, and brought high winds, storm surges, and rain to the area causing severe damage. Credit: Sean Rayford/Getty Images

Report Charts Climate Change’s Growing Impact in the US, While Stressing Benefits of Action

By Marianne Lavelle, Katie Surma, Kiley Price, Nicholas Kusnetz

Pauly Andy transports people and belonging using an all-terrain vehicles in Newtok, Alaska, where melting permafrost, sinking tundra and flooding disturbed the boardwalks on October 9, 2019. Credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Environmental Justice a Key Theme Throughout Biden’s National Climate Assessment

By Kristoffer Tigue, Georgina Gustin, Liza Gross, Victoria St. Martin

The Dominion Energy headquarters in Richmond, Virginia. Credit: Zach Gibson/Getty Images

Dominion’s Proposed Virginia Power Plant Casts Doubt on Its Commitments to Clean Energy

By Jake Bolster

U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, in the House chamber after his election as speaker last month. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images

Q&A: The League of Conservation Voters’ Take on House Speaker Mike Johnson’s Voting Record: ‘Appalling’

Interview by Jenni Doering, “Living on Earth”

Brenda Mallory, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, speaks at the Fight for Our Future: Rally for Climate, Care, Jobs & Justice in Lafayette Square near The White House last year. Credit: Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Green New Deal Network

Advocates Question Biden Administration’s Promises to Address Environmental Injustices While Supporting Fossil Fuel Projects

By Aman Azhar

Environmental activists march during the Global Climate Strike in downtown Chicago, Illinois, on September 15, 2023. Local groups across the United States are gathering to call for an end to the era of fossil fuels.

Q&A: How Chicago’s Chief Sustainability Officer, a Southeast Side Native, Plans to Tackle Environmental Racism

By Aydali Campa

Steven James, 12, waits to hunt geese on St. Lawrence Island, in Alaska, sitting hidden behind a wood bar and a whale bone. Credit: Ann Johansson/Corbis via Getty Images.

Five Decades and a Mountain of Evidence: Study Explores How Toxic Chemicals are ‘Stealing Children’s Future Potential’

By Victoria St. Martin

Coal Communities Fear Justice40 Excludes Them From Clean Energy Funds. It’s Not That Simple

By Kristoffer Tigue

A water tower in Prichard, Alabama, a majority Black town with a crumbling water infrastructure. Mobile’s nearby skyline is visible in the background. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

As Alabama Judge Orders a Takeover of a Failing Water System, Frustrated Residents Demand Federal Intervention

By Lee Hedgepeth

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