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The nonprofit has been in the news lately, as a $19 million EPA grant it was awarded has been rescinded by the Trump administration.
CYPRESS, Calif. (AP) — California shouldn't weaken hazardous waste rules to allow local landfills to accept toxic dirt that ...
ANNEXATION: An 8.61-acre parcel on East Kettleman Lane may soon be annexed into the city, according to a recently completed environmental impact report ... of the Lodi Breakthrough Project for Social ...
But what is environmental justice exactly, and what does the elimination of those positions mean for New York City communities dealing with air pollution or contaminated land? That was the subject of ...
Johnson’s mother, Hazel Johnson, originally from New Orleans, is celebrated as “the mother of the environmental justice movement.” Her lifelong fight to make city and federal officials ...
The federal agency’s environmental justice office played a crucial role in helping New Yorkers reverse environmental burdens in their neighborhoods, according to EPA employees and community groups who ...
The Environmental Protection Agency’s dismantling of its Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights leaves the EPA far less equipped to protect disadvantaged communities from ...
These staffers worked in an area known as environmental justice, which helps communities that face a disproportionate amount of pollution, especially minority or low-income communities.
WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) - The Environmental Protection Agency sent termination notices on Tuesday to staff who work on environmental justice programs at its headquarters and across ...
“It’s a big loss, and it’s destabilizing.” Hernandez, a former member of New York City’s Environmental Justice Advisory Board, researches health, housing and energy insecurity. Many of ...