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Environmental justice has come to the forefront of climate initiatives as policymakers seek to create a just transition to net-zero carbon emissions in the U.S. The concept is defined by the EPA as ...

Explore how architecture can promote environmental justice and equity in urban design, addressing climate change and ...

In September 2022, Typhoon Merbok hit Alaska. Alaskan Native communities lost homes, critical food storage, and faced many catastrophic consequences. Philanthropy often responds to these types of ...

The writer Environmental degradation has emerged as one of the most pressing governance challenges confronting Ghana and many developing countries today. Illegal mining activities, deforestation, ...

This story was originally published by CityLab and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Just as it is now, Fifth Avenue has long been home to expensive shops drawing not only ...

On the eve of Earth Day, President Joe Biden announced the creation of an Office of Environmental Justice as he lays out a plan to make it "the mission of every single executive agency," the White ...

The 1994 executive order was considered a launching pad for federal efforts to overcome long-standing environmental discrimination. The Trump administration has erased a decades-old requirement for ...

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 ...