Los Angeles resident Walter Foster, 80, holds up a sign as the California Reparations Task Force meets to hear public input in 2022. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Reading Time: 5 ...

LAHORE, Pakistan — In 1986, CIA chief William Casey had stepped up the war against the Soviet Union by taking three significant, but at that time highly secret, measures. He had persuaded the US ...

Protecting people’s health from environmental hazards, Maricela Mares-Alatorre and her family found out the hard way, is a never-ending fight. She was in high school in the late 1980s when her parents ...

Terri Bartlett looks at a framed pictured of her deceased son Michael hanging on a wall of her McHenry, Ill., home. Two years after the overdose that killed her 21-year-old son, Bartlett traveled to ...

A type of law first created after the end of slavery to prohibit Black men from voting prevented more than 4.6 million Americans from participating in the 2022 midterm elections. Forty-eight states ...

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Is your neighborhood choked with pollution or facing other environmental woes that you think are discriminatory? You can write to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to request an intervention.

Engineer Jim Southerland was hired by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1971 to join the nascent war on air pollution. He came to relish the task, investigating orange clouds from an ...

Lois Gibbs, right, executive director of the Center for Health, Environment, and Justice, stands with former vice president of the Love Canal Homeowner’s Association, Deborah Cerrillo Curry, during a ...

This report is part of a project on drinking water contamination in the United States produced by the Carnegie-Knight News21 program. CAMPTI, La. – Deep in the winding mass of crumbling back streets ...

Arsenic is consumed by people in small amounts in the food we eat and the water we drink. EPA scientists have concluded that if 100,000 women consumed the legal limit of arsenic each day, 730 of them ...