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In 2019, New York State passed a historic law to cut greenhouse gas emissions from every part of its economy. But for some, the most significant part of the legislation was its focus on environmental ...

A bill, newly passed by legislators, will expand the state’s capacity to enforce limits on health-harming emissions in ...

Today, President Biden signed a new executive order further directing all federal agencies to prioritize environmental justice (EJ) initiatives in their core missions. The Executive Order, entitled ...

Tamara Toles O’Laughlin is a national climate strategist, and the CEO and president of the Environmental Grantmakers Association. As COP26 gets underway, we don’t know if it will meet our ambitions ...

From the earliest days, the Biden Administration has made environmental justice and equity a key pillar of its environmental policy, directing EPA to incorporate this concept at all levels of its ...

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 ...

Even though environmental pollution affects everyone, low-income communities and communities of color are often disproportionately harmed by poor air, water, and soil caused by fossil fuel pollution ...