President Biden’s first executive orders embrace “environmental justice.” The two separate concepts — environment and justice — regularly top people’s concerns, so why not combine them? Well, because ...

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 ...

While the storm called attention to this inequality, residents of the city’s industrial areas, mostly Black and Latino and largely poor, were already used to having little control over the ...

The environmental justice movement seeks to critically examine the climate change crisis through a health equity lens. This involves calling attention to the urgent need to dismantle environmental ...

In contrast to President Trump’s chaotic first-term transition, the second Trump administration has the chance to be disciplined when it comes into office on January 20, 2025. Some of the Biden ...

A census tract in New Haven serves as an example of the Connecticut Environmental Justice Mapping Tool. Credit: Connecticut Environmental Justice Mapping Tool / Screenshot Connecticut is about to ...

Cases of bottled water are handed out in Jackson, Mississippi in August 2022 after the lost reliable water service after river flooding caused the main treatment facility to fail. Decades of systemic ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...