Many so-called low-carbon projects promoted by major oil and gas companies—including hydrogen, biofuels, carbon capture and ...

Whether it’s truck traffic in and out of Port Newark or trash incineration in the Ironbound, the predominantly Black and ...

About 40 community members and city officials gathered Wednesday night in the basement of Ebenezer AME Church to examine preliminary findings from the city’s ongoing Environmental Equity Investigation ...

We kick off the program with a compelling and important conversation about environmental justice and related issues with Dr. Nicky Sheats, Director of the Center for Urban Environment at Kean ...

Held in the White House Rose Garden, it was an exercise in political stagecraft. The notably diverse crowd of onlookers, surrounded by springtime greenery, blended the all-too-often disenfranchised ...

Communities of color in Chicago, and nationally, are typically exposed to more air pollution, hazardous waste and PFAS, a class of man-made chemicals associated with adverse health effects. Latino ...

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KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The goal for Aurora Pantojo Conejo, a native of Kansas City, Kansas' Quindaro neighborhood, seems pretty simple. "I want to live long and healthy," Conejo said. A study by We Are ...

The New York Times recently featured a new study by Christopher Tessum and colleagues on disproportionate exposures to people of color from fine particle (PM2.5) emissions, raising questions about ...

Today the Tennessee Valley Authority’s two stakeholder groups will convene to discuss a critically important issue: environmental justice issues in the Tennessee Valley. This is timely considering the ...

Black, indigenous, and people of color often take the brunt of harm caused by climate change and pollution. It’s called environmental injustice, burdening those living near refineries, power plants, ...

LAMONT — Residents in this economically stressed patch of the San Joaquin Valley gripped by respiratory sickness were not surprised to learn local officials had exempted all four area fuel refineries ...