At the federal level, billions of dollars have been budgeted to fight climate change in the Infrastructure Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, and others with funding from the Departments of the ...

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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 ...

Everyone has the right to live safe and healthy lives with equal environmental protections and meaningful participation in decisions affecting their community. Meaningful participation is important ...

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 ...

FILE - PPL's Brunner Island coal-fired plant, on the west bank of Susquehanna River, in York Haven, Pa. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo) This story is part of the WHYY News Climate Desk, bringing you news ...

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