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Emissions fume at the coal-fired Oak Grove Power Plant on April 29, 2024, in Robertson County, Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

The Danger of Losing the EPA’s Endangerment Finding

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Rev. Mariama White-Hammond is a pastor at New Roots African Methodist Episcopal Church in Dorchester, Mass., and served as Chief of Environment, Energy, and Open Space for the City of Boston from 2021 to 2024. Credit: Joshua Qualls/Massachusetts Governor’s Press Office

Juneteenth and Its Role in Environmental Justice—for All

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Fish swim over a reef affected by coral bleaching from extreme heat on May 8, 2024, in Trat, Thailand. Credit: Sirachai Arunrugstichai/Getty Images

Some Hopeful News About the Future of the World’s Corals

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, “Living on Earth”

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV arrives on the central balcony of Saint Peter’s Basilica for the first time after the cardinals ended the conclave in the Vatican on May 8. Credit: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP via Getty Images

How Green Is Pope Leo XIV?

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, “Living on Earth”

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

John Cangialosi, senior hurricane specialist at NOAA’s National Hurricane Center, inspects a satellite image of Hurricane Beryl on July 1, 2024, in Miami. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

How Massive Cuts to NOAA Could Impact Everything From Weather Apps to Agriculture to National Security

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

Laurene Allen won the 2025 Goldman Environmental Prize for her activism with contaminated in her hometown of Merrimack, N.H. Credit: Goldman Environmental Prize

She Galvanized Her Community After a Company Contaminated It With ‘Forever Chemicals’

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Construction of a geothermal pilot project begins in July 2023 in Framingham, Mass. Credit: Eversource

What You Need to Know About Geothermal Heating and Cooling

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

The flowers are yellow against a green backdrop

You’re Not Imagining It: Your Pollen Allergies Are Lasting Longer

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, “Living on Earth”

How Nature Enabled Freedom for Groundbreaking American Women

Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth

A low-income neighborhood is seen near an oil refinery in southwest Detroit. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

What Gutting Environmental Justice Means for the Future of the EPA

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

EPA contractors work to remove hazardous waste from beachfront properties destroyed in the Palisades Fire along the Pacific Ocean on Feb. 18 in Malibu, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Christine Todd Whitman Thinks the EPA Is Going the Wrong Direction

Interview by Steve Curwood and Paloma Beltran

Cars drive along a flooded street on September 29, 2023, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City as remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia reaches the Northeast. Credit: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

How New York’s $75 Billion Climate Superfund Will Work

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth

An aerial view shows homes burned in the Eaton Fire on Feb. 5 in Altadena, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Public Radio’s David Brancaccio Mulls the Surprising Pluses and Minuses of Rebuilding in LA After the Fires

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Rev. Ben Chavis speaks as panelist for the Real Talk Drives Real Change Tour at the Lincoln Theatre in Washington, D.C. on on June 26, 2022. Credit: Brian Stukes/Getty Images

‘Never Let Anyone Break Your Spirit’: How an Environmental Justice Forefather Is Thinking About Our Current Moment

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Cars are piled in the street with other debris after flash floods hit Valencia, Spain on Oct. 30, 2024. Credit: David Ramos/Getty Images

An Economist’s Dire Forecast About Just How Much Climate Change Will Impact GDP

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

Environmental justice advocates hold signs during a demonstration following Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) being blocked from entering the EPA headquarters on Feb. 6 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Al Drago/Getty Images

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act vs. Trump’s Executive Orders on Environmental Justice

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

A young man carries a bag of sorghum from USAID in Bentiu, South Sudan, on July 26, 2023. Credit: The Washington Post via Getty Images

What Trump’s Evisceration of USAID Feels Like on the Ground

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

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