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.
In the summer of 2023, Initiatives intern Skye Bluestein conducted important research with the BEI on the intersection of environmental justice (EJ), policy, and business. The resulting paper posted ...
Society has to confront a multitude of existential challenges all at once: political instability, the digital divide, climate and environmental justice. Historically, Black communities have been left ...
Environmental hazards disproportionately impact low-income communities and people of color, but there are moves happening in our own back yard to foster change. We’re talking with local experts and ...
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, ...
Elon Musk and Donald Trump have gutted federal environmental justice programs. Here’s what's at stake and how we’re fighting back. Elon Musk and Donald Trump have gutted federal 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 ...
On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order rolling back DEI policies across the federal bureaucracy. Moving almost as quickly, Elon Musk’s Department of Government ...
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 ...
Corporate broadcast news coverage of environmental justice declined in 2024. ABC, CBS, and NBC aired a combined total of just 7 environmental justice segments, compared to 9 such segments in 2023.
The Trump administration’s gutting of diversity programs highlights a seeming paradox of vows to deliver clean air, land and water for “every American.” Swati Rayasam knew her job at EPA would be ...
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