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 ...

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 ...

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.

That’s right, the definition of an environmental justice community has nothing to do environmental harm in a community. Under the current system, Nantucket is equal to Grove Hall when it comes ...

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

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.

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 ...

The new definition uses more than 30 criteria — including asthma and cancer rates, proximity to oil and gas wells, exposure to toxic air pollution, race, and income — to produce a score reflecting ...

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.