One of the most significant policy developments to emerge in recent years is the concept of environmental justice or "EJ." Indeed, we have been knee-deep in EJ policies, legislation, and regulations ...
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 ...
Theologian, author and activist Benjamin Chavis spoke Wednesday at Wake Forest University's environmental justice summit in Winston-Salem. Chavis was wrongfully imprisoned in 1972 as a member of the ...
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, ...
New York has joined states like New Jersey and Maryland, which have enacted environmental justice laws. New York's Environmental Justice Siting Law (EJSL) (Chapter 840 of 2022 [S8830/A2103-D] amended ...
A new round of federal grants announced Monday seeks to address environmental justice concerns in Louisiana by empowering communities, potentially paying for projects related to flooding, drinking ...
A climate resilience center in southwest Denver. A tree-planting project along Interstate 70. A constellation of urban gardens. Those are just some of the Colorado projects on life support after the U ...
In November 2021, Michael Regan, the newly-appointed administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, embarked on a “Journey to Justice” throughout the South, visiting communities that have been ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this week terminated more than two dozen remaining staffers in the now-defunct Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights (OEJECR), advancing ...
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 ...
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Democrats say EPA illegally canceled hundreds of grants aimed at boosting 'environmental justice'
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency illegally canceled grants worth more than $1.5 billion focused on improving the environment in minority communities hit hard by pollution, Senate ...
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