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 ...

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 ...

A DOJ investigation found in 2023 that the Houston neighborhood in question had been inundated by illegal dumping of trash, medical waste, mattresses and even dead bodies and “rotting carcasses” — a ...

The New School's interdisciplinary approach to climate action can be understood through the frames of environmental and climate justice. The climate crisis can be understood as a social justice crisis ...

Sacoby Wilson is the Director of T.H.E. EJ Lab at the University of Maryland. He is a recipient of one of this year's Heinz Awards. The Heinz Family Foundation recently announced the recipients of ...

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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Not all communities in the United States face the same risks for environmental problems such as air pollution, noise and wastewater. But how can federal agencies fairly identify which ...

The dismissal of the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality’s first environmental justice coordinator has triggered a backlash against the agency’s director over what some employees say has been a ...

The 54-mile stretch of U.S. Route 80 connecting Montgomery to Selma appears unremarkable at first—just another highway cutting through Alabama’s Black Belt, where pine forests occasionally give way to ...

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A coalition of organizations is holding a series of civic engagement meetings to address community issues including crime, gun violence, healthcare, environmental justice, and racism.

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