In September 2022, Typhoon Merbok hit Alaska. Alaskan Native communities lost homes, critical food storage, and faced many catastrophic consequences. Philanthropy often responds to these types of ...

When Arlin Benavides Jr. set out to hear residents’ environmental concerns in one of the most marginalized parts of a region facing water scarcity, groundwater contamination, extreme heat and other ...

Activists helped stop Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chair Joe Manchin’s permitting reform bill, and they vow to do so again. They’re also lobbying for action on transformative environmental ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) defines environmental justice as: “The fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people, regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect ...

1) Environmental Justice affirms the sacredness of Mother Earth, ecological unity and the interdependence of all species, and the right to be free from ecological destruction. 2) Environmental Justice ...

Environmental issues are social in origin and all living beings are interconnected. That’s how David Pellow sees it. In his new book, “What is Critical Environmental Justice?” (Polity Press, 2017), ...

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 ...

Washington, D.C. — To confront the widening dangers of our climate crisis, leading U.S. environmental justice and national environmental groups today are advancing for the first time an Equitable and ...

State and local officials are inviting residents to help shape the future of the Onondaga Creek watershed during an ...

Members of the inaugural cohort of the Environmental Justice Academy explore the Anacostia Watershed by boat. The Environmental Justice Academy is a flagship program of the Smithsonian's Center for ...