Environmental justice is the meaningful and fair involvement of all people in the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental policies, regulations, and laws. Community Benefit ...

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CAPITAL REGION, N.Y. — Governor Kathy Hochul recently announced a total of $3.5 million in state funding to support environmental justice initiatives being led by more than 20 community-based ...

For six weeks in 1982, activists and residents, such as then-15-year-old Consherto Williams (right), gathered in Warren County, near the town of Afton, to protest the delivery of 40,000 cubic tons of ...

Michael Regan loves a good photo op. The EPA administrator spent much of his first two years in office crisscrossing the country, attracting a phalanx of local reporters wherever he turned up. But ...

On the eve of Earth Day, President Joe Biden announced the creation of an Office of Environmental Justice as he lays out a plan to make it "the mission of every single executive agency," the White ...

Between 2019 and 2024, more than two dozen pieces of legislation mentioning environmental justice were introduced in Harrisburg. All but one died in committee. The one that made it out of committee — ...

The city of Dallas is expanding its focus on environmental justice as part of its broader equity efforts. City leaders last week announced the addition to the Equity Indicators Report. “It's very ...