In September 2022, Typhoon Merbok hit Alaska. Alaskan Native communities lost homes, critical food storage, and faced many catastrophic consequences. Philanthropy often responds to these types of ...

Since Portland, Oregon, adopted the first city climate action plan in 1993, climate planning has expanded significantly ...

Participatory justice is a central part of the environmental justice movement, as outlined by several of the Principles of Environmental Justice: Environmental Justice demands the right to participate ...

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, ...

Brandon Johnson swears in as Chicago's 57th mayor in Chicago, Illinois, on May 15, 2023. (Photo by Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) The City of Chicago and environmental justice ...

Is your neighborhood choked with pollution or facing other environmental woes that you think are discriminatory? You can write to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to request an intervention.

Tamara Toles O’Laughlin is a national climate strategist, and the CEO and president of the Environmental Grantmakers Association. As COP26 gets underway, we don’t know if it will meet our ambitions ...

Around the world, some of us are not able to drink from the tap because the water is loaded with toxic heavy metals that have seeped into the groundwater. Some of us have to stay indoors for days on ...

The growth of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) has caused significant environmental detriments and raised concerns regarding environmental justice with CAFOs exposure. We obtained data ...

The globe has made significant progress to facilitate the entire populace, which pushed it into several challenges, and it is impossible to come back without understanding the actual problems.

Even though environmental pollution affects everyone, low-income communities and communities of color are often disproportionately harmed by poor air, water, and soil caused by fossil fuel pollution ...