The Louisiana Board of Commerce and Industry unanimously granted tax credits totaling millions of dollars for two huge industrial projects in Plaquemines and Caldwell parishes.
New NAACP Leader Accelerates The Fight For Environmental Justice With And For Communities

The NAACP appointed Abre' Conner as Director of Environmental and Climate Justice as part of its broader civil rights efforts. Her professional experience as an attorney for the Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights is combined with her personal experience growing up in Lakeland, Florida, a rural area between Tampa and Orlando with poor air quality. As the climate crisis worsens, particularly in low-income and disadvantaged regions, more people are realizing the long-term implications of where people live and work on their health. The NAACP and others are working with communities to lobby for fair resources to enable healthy living. o lean air and water, safe sidewalks, and reliable energy and transportation.
Dr. Earthea Nance, Regional Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency for Region 6, visited with communities 29 times in FY2022.
SOURCE Global, a public benefit organization, is collaborating with Texas politicians and charities to provide safe drinking water.
More than a third of Harris County's acreage is in a FEMA-designated flood plain, a statistic that is anticipated to rise significantly when FEMA issues revised flood maps.
Every day, the process of processing crude oil into petroleum creates millions of gallons of wastewater containing hazardous chemicals and heavy metals.
The Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences at the University of Oklahoma.
According to a Texas Tribune review of state statistics dating back to 1999, heat-related mortality in Texas set a new high for the century last year.
According to official statistics, the typical inhabitant in the northeast Houston neighborhood of Settegast can expect to live for 66 years.
This year's Open Forum, a Davos 2023 side event, highlighted views from communities who are underrepresented in global business and government.
South Africa has identified more than 60 billion rand ($3.5 billion) in investments needed to assist communities in the coal-mining province of Mpumalanga.
Community solar projects include the building of huge photovoltaic (PV) systems, the net outputs of which are subsequently allocated to consumers in other areas.
A newly released special research issue pulls participants and contributions from four continents and contains articles that explore global or transnational viewpoints.
Municipalities are pushing green climate-adaptive infrastructure projects to mitigate climate hazards and maximize socio-environmental advantages.
Researchers investigated the challenges that stakeholders (government, community, and consultants) face while implementing a new California legislation (Senate Bill 1000) requirin
The Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD) coalition led the development of a real-time unit to monitor, expose, and resist anti-climate campaigns in the run-up to the 2022.