The state previously used poverty and race to define environmental justice areas. Under that definition, 179 areas were located in the state’s 48 rural counties, according to the DEP.

Reading Time: 6 minutes This story was published as a partnership between the Center for Public Integrity and Fresnoland. When Arlin Benavides Jr. set out to hear residents’ environmental concerns in ...

The state previously used poverty and race to define environmental justice areas. Under that definition, 179 areas were in the state’s 48 rural counties, according to the DEP.

(The Center Square) – In a party-line vote, Pennsylvania's House of Representatives' Environmental and Natural Resource Protection Committee moved forward a bill designed to take the cumulative ...

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 ...

Environmental justice (EJ) is understood in many different ways, but all definitions affirm the importance of equitable access to a clean and healthy environment for all people, as well as ...

A lawsuit seeks to reinstate $3 billion in EPA grants cut by Trump's administration, arguing that the funding was illegally terminated.

Beginning on Dec. 30, 2024, New York will implement a transformative law to address environmental justice and protecting disadvantaged communities from disproportionate impacts from pollution.

Environmental justice, according to a 1998 EPA definition, “means that no group of people should bear a disproportionate burden of environmental harms and risks, including those resulting from ...

This environmental agenda sets Harris apart from Biden — and is bringing attacks from the GOP. Despite facing some hesitancy among green groups in her home state, the vice president has embraced ...

Most canceled grants fell under already-approved Inflation Reduction Act disbursements from program categories framed as "environmental justice," defined by the EPA as efforts promoting "fair ...

Bullard's definition of the subject. Houston was the birthplace of the environmental justice movement, mainly thanks to Dr. Bullard after that fateful assignment back in the late 70s.