As students at New York City schools increasingly experience the impact of environmental injustice, climate activists are urging Mayor Eric Adams to electrify, ventilate, and retrofit hundreds of public school buildings in the city by 2030. Schools in New York City have long lacked resilience to environmental challenges, particularly in
By Alexis Young This piece originally appeared in People over Plastic. In Calcasieu Parish, a little more than three hours away from New Orleans by car, sits the city of Sulphur, Louisiana. The more than 85-mile stretch of oil and gas and petrochemical plants along the Mississippi River includes the
The EPA’s civil rights investigation into environmental racism in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley was halted. Frontline communities are wondering why
Louisiana Green Corps equips young workers with the tools needed to improve their lives and their communities
Community organizers are struggling to clean up large-scale pollution and say they shouldn’t have to
Young people will disproportionately bear the consequences of climate crisis, but we cannot build futures we can’t imagine
Rikki Held v. State of Montana is a monumental step forward—and the case has the potential to open the door for climate-focused legal action across the U.S.
Money can’t bring back water, but it can fund renewable infrastructure, create green jobs, and support tribal communities
Youth advocates are suing the government for its support of polluting industries and suppression of climate change proof
Anti-protest legislation is backed by oil and natural gas interests and obscures the violence of the fossil fuel industry
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