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

When the EPA abruptly terminated “Community Change” grants, the impacts rippled across the country. Chicago groups that won and then lost one of those grants are still feeling the impacts.

By Amber X. Chen

A view of the south branch of the Chicago River with downtown Chicago in the background. Credit: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images
Cheryl Johnson’s Chicago nonprofit, People for Community Recovery, was part of a coalition that received a $2.8 million grant funded through the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act. The Trump administration canceled it this year after just $32,000 were disbursed. Credit: Zubaer Khan/Chicago Sun-Times

New Map Shows $29 Billion in Climate and Environment Grants Canceled or Frozen by Trump

By Dylan Baddour

Roofing material is unloaded at the Port of Providence in Rhode Island. Credit: Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images

In Providence, Trump’s EPA Freeze Leaves People’s Port Authority in Limbo

By Julia Vaz

The landing page for the “Environmental Justice” section of whitehouse.gov on Friday, Jan. 24.

As Trump Targets Biden’s Environmental Justice Initiatives, Activists Gear Up for Legal Fights

By Kristoffer Tigue, Keerti Gopal, Marianne Lavelle

An employee works on new Ford F-150 trucks as they go through the assembly line at the Ford Dearborn Plant on April 11 in Dearborn, Mich. Credit: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images

Disadvantaged Communities Are Seeing a Boom in Clean Energy Manufacturing, but the Midwest Lags

By Kristoffer Tigue

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

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

By Kristoffer Tigue

Adam Ortiz, EPA Mid-Atlantic administrator, shown here in November 2022 at the Edmonston pumping station in Prince George's County, Maryland, visited the Ivy City neighborhood in Washington on Tuesday to award a $12 million grant for a technical assistance center. Credit: Aman Azhar/Inside Climate News.

EPA Rolls Out Training Grants For Environmental Justice Communities

By Aman Azhar

Maya Etienne at the Little Calumet River Prairie and Wetlands Nature Preserve, in Gary, IN. on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2022. Credit: Vincent D. Johnson

Industrial Plants in Gary and Other Environmental Justice Communities Are Highlighted as Top Emitters

By Aydali Campa, Phil McKenna, Victoria St. Martin

Highway signage on Bluemound Road in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Sept. 14, 2018. Credit: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images

Activists Slam Biden Administration for Reversing Climate and Equity Guidance on Highway Expansions

By Aydali Campa, Kristoffer Tigue

EPA Administrator Michael Regan. Credit: Joshua Roberts/Getty Images

EPA Announces $27 Billion Effort to Curb Emissions and Stem Environmental Injustices. Advocates Say It’s a Good Start

By Aman Azhar

EPA Administrator Michael Regan arrives to an event on new national clean air standards for heavy-duty trucks near the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters on Dec. 20, 2022 in Washington, DC. Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Six Environmental Justice Policy Fights to Watch in 2023

By Kristoffer Tigue, Aydali Campa, Darreonna Davis

People walk down a flooded street as they evacuate their homes after the area was inundated with flooding from Hurricane Harvey on Aug. 28, 2017 in Houston, Texas. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Red States Still Pose a Major Threat to Biden’s Justice40 Initiative, Activists Warn

By Kristoffer Tigue

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