What buzzwords define the environmental space in the past two years? Both “ESG” and “environmental justice” (EJ) are strong contenders. This post outlines how these concepts relate and provides ...

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In recent years, more states have crafted environmental justice policies to help communities of color plagued by polluted air and water, poor health outcomes and limited access to green space. But now ...

Though environmental justice (EJ) has been a cornerstone of the Biden Administration, it lacks federal enforcement laws. Executive orders and responses from federal agencies have shaped U.S.

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, ...

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 ...

This law has been coined the "nation's strongest environmental justice law." It also marks a significant step in ensuring that environmental burdens are more equitably distributed and that ...

The department is set to make decisions that will determine how new energy projects will affect historically disadvantaged communities for years. More than two years after calling for a huge infusion ...

Fernando Treviño, DEP's special deputy secretary for environmental justice, says he moved to Beaver County for a couple of weeks to build trust with local advocates and community leaders regarding the ...

FILE - PPL's Brunner Island coal-fired plant, on the west bank of Susquehanna River, in York Haven, Pa. For the first time in nearly two decades, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental ...

EPA Administrator Michael Regan. His agency will be tasked with enforcing how states impose Justice40, which directs federal agencies to deliver 40 percent of the “overall benefits” of their ...

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