Under the Biden administration, the environmental justice movement had a historic platform to bring clean water and air to communities that have suffered from pollution. It was a boon to the ...

I’M KAREN HOLMES WARD. WELCOME TO CITYLINE. SO AS WE GRAPPLE WITH THE DISPROPORTIONATE IMPACT CLIMATE CHANGE HAS ON PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES OF COLOR, WE REFLECT ON THE LEGACY OF DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER ...

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, ...

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reveals that organized civil society and social mobilizations are key, yet often unrecognized, agents of global ...

The School for Environment and Sustainability hosted a panel Thursday evening focused on environmental justice and resilience ...

Residents of the Old Wilmington Road area, where the facility would have been located, expressed relief and vowed to remain vigilant against future industrial development in their neighborhood.

Tucked inside the Altgeld Gardens public housing project on Chicago’s far South Side, there’s a yellow brick wall filled with hundreds of names. It stands as a memorial to the friends and family ...

“Environmental justice” appears to be the latest Biden-era initiative on the chopping block as 168 employees of the Environmental Protection Agency’s environmental justice and civil rights office were ...

When the Trump administration terminated the nearly $2 billion EPA Community Change Grant Program earlier this year, organizations across the nation lost millions of dollars in environmental justice ...

If you were to believe reporting from The New York Times—which is an increasingly unwise idea—the Trump administration is diverting the attention of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from poor ...