Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Under the Biden administration, the environmental justice movement had a historic platform to bring clean water and air to ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Professor, author, and advocate Dr. Robert Bullard says he came into the field by accident through a boots-on-the-ground field project he assigned his grad students in the ...

If you were to believe reporting from The New York Times—which is an increasingly unwise idea—the Trump administration is ...

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 ...

As the world braces for another Earth Day, the environmental justice movement is at a critical juncture. While much of the climate conversation continues to focus on Big Oil and other corporate ...

Hazel Johnson was jolted by deaths of those she knew and loved throughout her life. Her mom died of tuberculosis when she was 12, her little brother died before his 2nd birthday, and her baby sister ...

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 ...

Among all the other good things he stood for, Dr. Martin Luther King was an inadvertent environmentalist. The 50th anniversary of his assassination was widely commemorated last month, and it is an ...

Passed in 2020, the law requires environmental regulators to consider the effect of projects on overburdened poor and ...