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Presidents Clinton, Biden issued orders aiming to correct environmental injustice. On Monday, President Trump issued orders revoking those efforts.
Advocates say immigrant communities are increasingly hesitant to speak out publicly for fear of being targeted.
CHICAGO Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a coalition of 20 attorneys general, filed an amicus brief in support of a ...
Some of the most egregious environmental justice civil-rights complaints, they sat in boxes. Some of them had been around since the 1990s. I worked with communities that had been just waiting, waiting ...
Environmental justice is "the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, ...
He learned that Sacramento opted to create an environmental justice advisory committee, a process that he knew would also reinforce the requirements of SB 1000. But first Benavides set out to conduct ...
No one should have to live with greater environmental or health risks because of the color of their skin or how much money ...
Bullard, who is often credited as the "father" of the movement, said he looks no further than the 20 HBCU students who ...
The story of ERA didn’t begin in air-conditioned boardrooms or conference halls; it started in the forests of Central Africa, ...
Some of Trump’s allies, including some members of Congress, have targeted environmental justice programs for elimination. More than a dozen Republicans asked the House Appropriations Committee ...
Nearly 170 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights (OEJECR) were placed on paid administrative leave on Thursday, according to ...
The Environmental Protection Agency has informed more than 450 employees working on environmental justice and diversity, equity and inclusion that they will be fired or reassigned, according to an ...