Environmental oppression refers to human activities that result in the contamination of the Earth and the environs of space. The United States government released a National Climate Assessment in 2014 ...

Twenty-five years ago this week, activists at the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit drafted and adopted the principles of environmental justice, which have guided a ...

The Philadelphia Climate Justice Collective (PCJC), facilitated by The Environmental Collaboratory (TEC) at Drexel University, has published a report intended to guide the city’s climate change ...

RICHMOND, Calif. — Mari Rose Taruc is part of a slice of green groups that fight for what they call “environmental justice.” Rather than focusing on distant casualties of climate change like polar ...

Affordable homes border swaths of public green space. An environmental justice organization, well funded and powered by community voices, advocates for residents’ needs and brings its expertise to ...

This interview is a collaboration between Inside Climate News and “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine. The interview is conducted by host Steve Curwood with the Rev. Ben ...

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 ...

At the foot of the majestic snow-capped Sierras, Manzanar, the WWII concentration camp, becomes the confluence for memories of Payahuunadü, the now-parched “land of flowing water.” Intergenerational ...

Sep. 22—WARRENTON — It began as a local issue, but it became a national — and even an international — cause. When the state selected a site near the Afton community in Warren County to bury ...

Before climate justice was a dominant topic, the residents of Warren County took a stand and risked their lives to show that their environment mattered. In 1978, the Ward Transformer Company was found ...