Citing ‘Racial Cleansing,’ Louisiana ‘Cancer Alley’ Residents Sue Over Zoning Legal experts describe a new environmental justice lawsuit as significant, timely and ambitious. But will conservative judges agree? By James Bruggers
Activists Slam Biden Administration for Reversing Climate and Equity Guidance on Highway Expansions By Aydali Campa, Kristoffer Tigue
Q&A: Robert Bullard Led a ‘Huge’ Delegation from Texas to COP27 Climate Talks in Egypt By Dylan Baddour
Wisconsin Advocates Push to Ensure $700 Million in Water Infrastructure Improvements Go to Those Who Need It Most By Aydali Campa
For the Third Time, Black Residents in Corpus Christi’s Hillcrest Neighborhood File a Civil Rights Complaint to Fend Off Polluting Infrastructure By Dylan Baddour
A Timber Mill Below Mount Shasta Gave Rise to a Historic Black Community, and Likely Sparked the Wildfire That Destroyed It By Anne Marshall-Chalmers
A Black Woman Fought for Her Community, and Her Life, Amidst Polluting Landfills and Vast ‘Borrow Pits’ Mined for Sand and Clay By Agya K. Aning
The ‘State of the Air’ in America Is Unhealthy and Getting Worse, Especially for People of Color By Kristoffer Tigue
Researchers Say Science Skewed by Racism is Increasing the Threat of Global Warming to People of Color By Bob Berwyn
Inspired by King’s Words, Experts Say the Fight for Climate Justice Anywhere is a Fight for Climate Justice Everywhere By James Bruggers
In Three Predominantly Black North Birmingham Neighborhoods, Residents Live Inside an Environmental ‘Nightmare’ By Julia Benbrook, Augusta Saraiva
The Biden Administration’s Embrace of Environmental Justice Has Made Wary Activists Willing to Believe By Agya K. Aning
In Corpus Christi’s Hillcrest Neighborhood, Black Residents Feel Like They Are Living in a ‘Sacrifice Zone’ By Aman Azhar
Expansion of I-45 in Downtown Houston Is on Hold, for Now, in a Traffic-Choked, Divided Region By Aman Azhar
Race, Poverty, Farming and a Natural Gas Pipeline Converge In a Rural Illinois Township By Brett Chase
After Hurricane Harvey, a Heated Debate Over Flood Control Funds in Texas’ Harris County By Aman Azhar
Eminent Domain Lets Pipeline Developers Take Land, Pay Little, Say Black Property Owners By Carrington J. Tatum, MLK50