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Environmental Justice

A view of chemical plants and factories in the Louisiana area known as Cancer Alley. Credit: Giles Clarke/Getty Images

The State of Environmental Justice Under Trump 2.0

Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth

Steam rises from one of the plants near the Houston Ship Channel on Jan. 26 in Deer Park, Texas. Credit: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Under Trump, EPA’s Enforcement of Environmental Laws Collapses, Report Finds

By Kiley Price, Marianne Lavelle

A view of the Chevron Richmond Refinery in Contra Costa County, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Mapping Unequal Climate Risks in a Northern California County

By Liza Gross

Julissa Hernandez used to run track and field as a student at Niagara Falls High School before her asthma forced her to quit. She believes the poor air quality in in the New York town contributed to her complications. Credit: Jennifer Wybieracki

How Two Teens in Niagara Falls Are Confronting Pollution and a Mental Health Crisis

By Jennifer Wybieracki

The aerial view shows a modest house and the American flag out front partially underwater.

Amid National Call to Make Polluters Pay, Illinois Lawmakers Are Prepping a Climate Change Superfund Bill

By Keerti Gopal

The cooling towers and main unit of the Chinese–funded Sahiwal coal plant dominate the skyline above rural farmlands in Punjab, Pakistan. Credit: Aman Azhar/Inside Climate News

The Chinese Coal Offer Pakistan Couldn’t Afford But Didn’t Refuse

By Aman Azhar

White-gray emissions billow from the stacks in the background. In the foreground is an American flag on a telephone pole.

The Cost of Ignoring Fossil Fuel Pollution’s Health Impacts

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

For 33 hours, Elissa Phillips and Anahita Sahar Babaei locked themselves into the crow’s nests of a whaling ship, as dozens of supporters gathered to protest whaling in Iceland on Sept. 4, 2023. Credit: Hard to Port

Peaceful Protest Against Whaling in Iceland Lands Two Activists in Court

By Teresa Tomassoni

Women sit on a sidewalk along the dried-up riverbed of the Zayanderud in Isfahan, Iran, on Dec. 1, 2025. Credit: Hozi/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images

Iran’s Regime Has Survived War, Sanctions and Uprising. Environmental Crises May Bring It Down.

By Katie Surma

Lick Run, a tributary to West Virginia’s Cheat River, is one of many waterways in Appalachia that are impaired by pollution from coal mining. Acid mine drainage can create a reddish coloring in affected streams. Credit: Courtesy of Friends of the Cheat

Coal Communities Accuse Congress of Breaking Its Promise to Clean Up Abandoned Mine Lands

By Kiley Bense

Amber DeLoney-Stewart’s 2-year-old daughter Valencia stands in front of their former home in East Trenton, N.J. Credit: Anna Mattson/Inside Climate News

One Family’s Battle With Trenton’s Lead Legacy

By Anna Mattson

A young Venezuelan miner works in an open pit mine in search of gold in El Callao, Venezuela, on Aug. 29, 2023. Credit: Magda Gibelli/AFP via Getty Images

Trump Wants to Accelerate Extraction in Venezuela. So Do Drug Trafficking Organizations.

By Katie Surma

Debra Ramirez said oil refining operations by petrochemical plants have systematically dismantled her Lake Charles, Louisiana, community.

Venezuelan Oil Brought to the U.S. Would Be Refined in Black Gulf Communities

Adam Mahoney, Capital B

The EPA flag flies outside the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Credit: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

EPA Funding Salvaged in US Congress Spending Bill

By Liza Gross

Plant Barry’s toxic coal ash lagoon is more than a mile across at some points and is surrounded by the Mobile River, located just feet from its edge. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

How Alabama Power Has Left the ‘American Amazon’ at Risk

By Lee Hedgepeth

A view of the south branch of the Chicago River with downtown Chicago in the background. Credit: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images

After a Hard Year for Environmental Justice, Chicago Communities Are Picking Up the Pieces

By Amber X. Chen

Love Sanchez, founder of Indigenous People of the Coastal Bend, stands at McGee Beach near downtown Corpus Christi in 2022. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Indigenous Groups Fight to Save Rediscovered Settlement Site on an Industrial Waterfront in Texas

By Dylan Baddour

New Jersey environmental activists protest in August against Transco’s 32,000-horsepower compressor station proposed for Somerset County’s Franklin Township, New Jersey, part of the Northeast Supply Enhancement pipeline. Courtesy Charlie Kratovil.

Will New Jersey’s Environmental Regulators Approve Transco’s NESE Pipeline After Rejecting it Twice?

By Raeanne Raccagno

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