Why Catherine Coleman Flowers Believes Environmental Justice Is a Human Right
From sewage-filled yards to the White House, Flowers's fight for sanitation rights proves that safe infrastructure is ...
Democrats say EPA illegally canceled hundreds of grants aimed at boosting 'environmental justice'
Senate Democrats accuse the Environmental Protection Agency of breaking the law when they cancelled grants worth more than $1 ...
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EPA axes environmental justice offices: What’s next for overpolluted communities?
The EPA's environmental justice offices are being dismantled by the Trump administration, placing many workers on indefinite ...
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Neighbors, Activists Disrupt South Works Quantum Campus Meeting: ‘Don’t Poison Us’
A tense community meeting on the planned South Chicago megadevelopment highlighted neighbors' mistrust of the project, driven by decades of divestment and "broken promises." ...
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New Environmental Justice Coalition Protests EPA Cuts
A new coalition of environmental advocates protested the Trump Administration’s rollbacks of environmental protections on ...
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As Cook County’s environmental justice policy takes shape, communities voice priorities and concerns
Several days after Tara Stamps was appointed as a Cook County board commissioner in the summer of 2023, heavy storms flooded homes in her district’s West Side neighborhoods — including her own.
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Dumping Environmental Justice From the EPA Is a Good Step. Now Dump the EPA.
If you were to believe reporting from The New York Times—which is an increasingly unwise idea—the Trump administration is diverting the attention of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA ...