On Sunday, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson will deliver a sermon at Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Ala., to commemorate the 47th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. What do ...

The School for Environment and Sustainability hosted a panel Thursday evening focused on environmental justice and resilience ...

A new iteration of the Maryland Department of the Environment's environmental justice map has drawn concern from advocates, who say that some communities facing pollution issues are seeing lowered ...

In 1996, the New York-based civil rights organization known as UPROSE was struggling. Founded by Puerto Rican activists, the organization could tout a rich history of organizing amid the rapid change ...

Nearly 170 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights (OEJECR) were placed on paid administrative leave on Thursday, according to ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. For many Americans, proper sanitation and clean water seem like issues for developing ...

Sacoby Wilson is the Director of T.H.E. EJ Lab at the University of Maryland. He is a recipient of one of this year's Heinz Awards. The Heinz Family Foundation recently announced the recipients of ...

The two spans of the Gold Star Bridge over the Thames River, looking toward New London from Groton. Credit: Victor-ny / Creative Commons As a Connecticut College student, the last two-and-a-half years ...

The anticipated shifts in the executive branch’s environmental and energy priorities issues are well underway. Some of these changes echo the prior Trump administration’s goals in these areas, ...

For many Americans, proper sanitation and clean water seem like issues for developing countries. But much of rural America—and even parts of US cities—still struggles to provide the basics we all need ...

A state map showing “environmental justice” communities is back online, after the state lost access, in a Trump administration purge, to federal data about communities considered overburdened by ...