Federal and state laws are making it more challenging for communities to protect themselves against life-threatening toxins
Sunset Park has carried a heavy pollution burden for its predominantly working-class Asian and Latino residents. Now the neighborhood is emerging as a model for environmental justice
Community organizations allege that St. James Parish has discriminated against Black residents by allowing chemical facilities in majority Black areas, dubbed “Cancer Alley”
Carbon capture and sequestration, the technology of capturing carbon and storing it underground forever, is unproven and dangerous. Louisiana and other Gulf Coast states may soon house almost 40% of the country’s sequestered carbon dioxide
Over 400,000 Indigenous peoples live within three miles of a heavily contaminated site, including 19 superfund sites on tribal lands
The coalition of Native Hawaiians and local residents organizing against the government’s operations has only grown since 2021, when a military-owned bunker spilled jet fuel into an aquifer, poisoning thousands of families
The Southwest is quickly becoming the center of the nationwide push to increase the nuclear fuel supply chain, once again relegating Indigenous communities to sacrifice zones
The Endangerment Finding, the legal grounding for managing climate change-causing emissions, is the latest environmental regulation on the chopping block
Sponsored by oil and gas corporations, SB 419 seeks to exempt hydrogen fuel from certain taxes in a purported push toward clean energy
ICL Group, whose North American headquarters are in St. Louis, is tied to the manufacturing of white phosphorus, which the Israeli military has reportedly used against Palestinians. Now, the company wants to expand into a historically Black neighborhood
Groups working to heal and restore soil and water systems are now suing the Environmental Protection Agency in an effort to restore grant funds
How the state invested millions in technology that wreaks havoc on farming communities
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