Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new iteration of the Maryland Department of the Environment's environmental justice map has drawn concern from advocates, who ...

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 ...

John MacFarlane believes residents have too long dealt with various forms of pollution in underserved neighborhoods, particularly in the east Fort Worth and Northside communities. These areas of the ...

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 ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WBEZ and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Peggy Shepard walked into her living room on Tuesday morning when her husband ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) moved to fire 22 more of its staffers, a union representing agency employees said ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. For many Americans, proper sanitation and clean water seem like issues for developing ...

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 ...

Huey German-Wilson, Trinity-Houston Community President, is interviewed near large piles of trash and debris littering a narrow roadway in the Trinity Gardens neighborhood in northwest Houston, ...

PLATTSBURGH — The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation will host its sixth environmental justice listening session in Plattsburgh on March 11 to support and enhance meaningful ...