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From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with the Rev. Ben Chavis, an environmental justice pioneer. In 1981, ...

Thanks to a generous donor, Grist will once again offer grants to newsrooms to report stories on rural America. This time, ...

While the storm called attention to this inequality, residents of the city’s industrial areas, mostly Black and Latino and largely poor, were already used to having little control over the ...

Though environmental justice (EJ) has been a cornerstone of the Biden Administration, it lacks federal enforcement laws. Executive orders and responses from federal agencies have shaped U.S.

When Cesar Garcia first heard the term "environmental justice," he didn't know the definition. But he quickly realized he knew all about its meaning. Garcia is co-founder of the Lake City Collective, ...

This law has been coined the "nation's strongest environmental justice law." It also marks a significant step in ensuring that environmental burdens are more equitably distributed and that ...

FILE - PPL's Brunner Island coal-fired plant, on the west bank of Susquehanna River, in York Haven, Pa. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo) This story is part of the WHYY News Climate Desk, bringing you news ...

Massachusetts Undersecretary of Environmental Justice & Equity, María Belén Power. / Submitted Photo Back in the winter, Massachusetts officials heralded the appointment of the state's first ...

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