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, ...

Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition approach connected labor, faith and civil rights groups, laying the groundwork for modern environmental justice activism.

Theologian, author and activist Benjamin Chavis spoke Wednesday at Wake Forest University's environmental justice summit in Winston-Salem. Chavis was wrongfully imprisoned in 1972 as a member of the ...

A climate resilience center in southwest Denver. A tree-planting project along Interstate 70. A constellation of urban gardens. Those are just some of the Colorado projects on life support after the U ...

Hazel Johnson was jolted by deaths of those she knew and loved throughout her life. Her mom died of tuberculosis when she was 12, her little brother died before his 2nd birthday, and her baby sister ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WBEZ and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. There’s a yellow brick wall covered with hundreds of names tucked inside the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Tucked inside the Altgeld Gardens public housing project on Chicago’s far South Side, ...

The New School's interdisciplinary approach to climate action can be understood through the frames of environmental and climate justice. The climate crisis can be understood as a social justice crisis ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Commerce City Councilwoman Renee Millard-Chacon screamed — sometimes with profanity — about the climate crisis and its impact on her neighborhood, saying she ...

More reports surfaced this week of personnel cuts within multiple agency offices, with employees tied to environmental justice programs going on administrative leave. The Wall Street Journal reported ...