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New York’s New Mayor Has Assembled a Seasoned Climate Team. Now, the Real Work Begins

The president of the New York League of Conservation Voters says action is needed on bike and bus lanes, waste collection, curbside composting and outsize emissions from the city’s buildings.

By Laila Gad

New York City Mayor Eric Adams, with former President Bill Clinton (and New York Governor Kathy Hochul, speaks during a press conference hosted by Empire State Realty Trust to formally announce the publication of the new "Empire Building Playbook: A Guide to Low Carbon Retrofits," at the Empire State Building in April 2022. Credit: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images.
Attorney Robert Bilott speaks at the Fight Forever Chemicals Campaign kick off event on Capitol Hill on Nov. 19, 2019 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Paul Morigi/Getty Images

Environmentalists Praise the EPA’s Move to Restrict ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Water and Wonder, What’s Next?

By Victoria St. Martin

Along the Monongahela River, Braddock Avenue runs between train tracks and U.S. Steel’s Edgar Thomson Works, which occupies parts of Braddock, North Braddock, East Pittsburgh and North Versailles. Credit: Quinn Glabicki/PublicSource

In Braddock, Imagining Environmental Justice for a ‘Sacrifice Zone’

By Quinn Glabicki

Australian water scarcity activist Mina Guli completes her 200th marathon outside UN headquarters, ahead the UN Water Conference, on March 22, 2023, in New York City. Credit: Leonardo Munoz/AFP via Getty Images.

At the UN Water Conference, Running to Keep Up with an Ambitious 2030 Goal for Universal Water Rights

By Delaney Dryfoos

Climate Change Enables the Spread of a Dangerous Flesh-Eating Bacteria in US Coastal Waters, Study Says

By Jon Hurdle

Gail LeBoeuf, a lifelong member of St. Michael Catholic Church in St. James Parish and co founder and co executive director of the group Inclusive Louisiana, was part of a delegation of Black elders from Louisiana to speak last summer before UNESCO. Credit: James Bruggers

Citing ‘Racial Cleansing,’ Louisiana ‘Cancer Alley’ Residents Sue Over Zoning

By James Bruggers

From Gas Wells to Rubber Ducks to Incineration, the Plastics Lifecycle Causes ‘Horrific Harm’ to the Planet and People, Report Shows

By James Bruggers

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

A French farmer fills his sprayer with glyphosate herbicide "Roundup 720" made by agrochemical giant Monsanto prior to spraying in Piace, northwestern France, in a corn field, on April 23, 2021. Credit: Jean-Francois/AFP via Getty Images

Roundup, the World’s Favorite Weed Killer, Linked to Liver, Metabolic Diseases in Kids

By Liza Gross

This video screenshot released by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) shows the site of a derailed freight train in East Palestine, Ohio. Credit: NTSB/Handout via Xinhua/Getty Images

Rural Communities Like East Palestine, Ohio, Are at Outsized Risk of Train Derailments and the Ensuing Fallout

By Aydali Campa

Environmental Auditors Approve Green Labels for Products Linked to Deforestation and Authoritarian Regimes

By Scilla Alecci

A 3D satellite image of the Mount Unzen Volcano, on the Island of Kyushu, East of Nagasaki, Japan, in 1993. Two years earlier, volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft died there, studying the eruption. (Photo by Planet Observer/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

Two Volcanologists on the Edge of the Abyss, Searching for the Secrets of the Earth

By Kiley Bense

Pakistani men rest in the shade of trees during a heatwave in Karachi on June 23, 2015. Credit: Rizwan Tabassum/AFP via Getty Images

To Reduce Mortality From High Heat in Cities, a New Study Recommends Trees

By Danish Bajwa

Trucks line up on a residential street one block from the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. The residual waste was transported from Ohio to Texas. Credit: Rebecca Kiger for The Washington Post via Getty Images

EPA Paused Waste Shipments From Ohio Train Derailment After Texas Uproar

By Dylan Baddour

Yakini Horn, owner of Yaya’s Natural Hair Boutique in Atlanta, rolled sections of Akeyla Peele-Tembong’s hair in her hands during a styling visit on Feb. 20, 2023. Horn was creating “starter locs,” the early stage of a natural hairstyle that will take months to root. Credit: Victoria St. Martin

The ‘Environmental Injustice of Beauty’: The Role That Pressure to Conform Plays In Use of Harmful Hair, Skin Products Among Women of Color

By Victoria St. Martin

People enjoy the sunset on the beach of North Sea near the village of Lakolk, Denmark, on Sept. 3, 2022. Credit: Sergei Gapon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

What Denmark’s North Sea Coast Can Teach Us About the Virtues of Respecting the Planet

By Kiley Bense

A man tows a canoe through a flooded street of his neighborhood as a truck passes in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, on Sept. 30, 2022, after Hurricane Ian slammed the area. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

Hurricanes Ian and Nicole Left Devastating Flooding in Central Florida. Will it Happen Again?

By Amy Green,  WMFE

Chef Sia demonstrates how to use an induction stove during a cooking lesson at the office of the Association for Energy Affordability in the Bronx. Photo Courtesy of WE ACT for Environmental Justice

Indoor Pollutant Concentrations Are Significantly Lower in Homes Without a Gas Stove, Nonprofit Finds

By Delaney Dryfoos, Victoria St. Martin

An aerial view shows a natural gas cryogenic processing plant under construction Oct. 26, 2017 in Smith Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Pennsylvania Environmental Officials Took 9 Days to Inspect a Gas Plant Outside Pittsburgh That Caught Fire on Christmas Day

By Jon Hurdle

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