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Al Gore tours Houston's toxic sites

Jen Rice , Emily Foxhall

Houston Chronicle

The Climate Justice Pavilion at COP27

The Bullard Center

Climate Justice Pavilion

Bloomberg Philanthropies announces Beyond Petrochemicals: People Over Pollution Campaign

At 75, the Father of Environmental Justice Meets the Moment

Cara Buckley

New York Times

How Jackson's water crisis is a sign of racial inequities

PBS NewsHour

Biden promised billions for environmental justice. Will it get into the right hands?

New Orleans Public Radio

Supreme Court climate ruling leaves EJ communities at risk

E&E News

We've been sold out': Environmental justice advocates slam Biden's climate compromise

ZACK COLMAN

Politico

Biden signs massive climate and health care legislation

AP News

Report shows contamination in Fifth Ward cancer cluster worse than anyone thought

Climate Bill Compromises Leave a Sour Taste With Activists

Bloomberg

Watch ‘Forecasting Change’ here

Frank Billingsley

KPRC 2 News

What Is Environmental Racism, and How Can We Help Fight It?

Reader’s Digest

Houston residents welcome DOJ environmental justice investigation but say more work is needed

Waste Dive

Latino residents’ complaints about illegal trash dumping in Houston lead to federal investigation

DOJ investigating city of Houston for illegal dumping 311 calls

DOJ investigating city of Houston for illegal dumping 311 calls

Houston founders aim to provide equity through energy resiliency

Bob Bullard: Supreme Court’s Climate Change Ruling Places ‘Uneven Burden on Overburdened Communities

Edwin Rios

The Guardian

Chronic Air Pollution in Harris County is One Example of Environmental Inequality

The Source, KSTX Texas Public Radio

Court Leaves Dwindling Paths for Biden’s Climate Mission

Ellen Knickmeyer

Associated Press

A ‘Classic Example’ of Racism: Environmental Justice Pioneer Slams Proposed Landfill in Houston

Emily Foxhall

Houston Chronicle

How Social Sciences Can Help Accelerate the Climate Movement

Katerina Fragos

Greem Biz

Meet the South’s Black Climate Changemakers

Reckon

Biden to Update ‘Sacred’ EJ Order That Never Really Worked

Jean Chemnick

E&E News

A Texas County Wants to Punish Polluters: The State Won’t Let It

David Leffler and & Savanna Strott, Grist.

Grist

Racist housing policies subjected Black people to more pollution

MSNBC

Makaelah Walters, Facing South

Environmental Defense Fund: 50 years is too long! Now is our time to go bold or go home..

Changing Third Ward: How rising home prices are pushing out families

ABC 13

White House aims to tackle environmental injustices, but challenges loom

Why Climate Change Is a Health Threat: NIH’s New Climate Change and Health Initiative Explores the Risks, Raghuram Reddy, May-June (2022)

The NIH Catalyst

Activists Laud Biden’s New Environmental Justice Appointee, But Concerns Linger Over Equity and Funding

Inside Climate News

A Black Woman Fought for Her Community, and Her Life, Amidst Polluting Landfills and Vast 'Borrow Pits' Mined for Sand and Clay

Inside Climate News

Waste Dive: Environmental justice, including at waste sites, takes center stage at Houston event.

Waste Dive

Environmental justice, including at waste sites, takes center stage at Houston event

Waste Dive

Civil rights investigation for Alabama underway due to raw sewage

WWD

Civil rights investigation for alabama underway due to raw sewage

Texas Southern University Professor, ‘The Father of Environmental Justice,’ Sees Hope Amid Despair

In rural Alabama, raw sewage spurs investigation into racial inequality

NBC News

HBCU Students And Faculty Rally For Climate Action At Annual Conference | Essence

A Biomass Power Plant in Rural North Carolina Reignites Concerns Over Clean Energy and Environmental Justice

Inside Climate News

Catholic Award for Louisiana Environmental Justice Advocate

U.S. News & World Report

Addressing climate crisis requires further support from health funders | Kresge Foundation

Kresge Foundation

EPA Probes Environmental Justice in Louisiana Projects

U.S. News & World Report

Scholarships Available to the Living Future 2022 Online Conference Focused on Restoration + Justice

CSR Wire

Data Dive: Heat Mapping New York City and Environmental Justice

Columbia University

Climate Funders Justice Pledge announces new $100M funding baseline for BIPOC-led organizations created in one year

Kresge Foundation

The future cost of climate inaction? $2 trillion a year, says the government

NPR

NASA Finds Two Space-Based Novel Ways to Track Climate Change and Groundwater Loss across Planet

The Weather Channel

Father of Environmental Justice' and Local High School Students Headline CCTS Conference

Mallory Profeta

University of Kentucky, UKnow

Redlining means 45 million Americans are breathing dirtier air, 50 years after it ended

Washington Post

FACT SHEET: State-by-State Analysis of Record $2.7 Billion American Rescue Plan Investment in Historically Black Colleges and Universities: TSU to receive 90.1$ Million

White House

EPA Establishes an Internal Council to Identify Opportunities for Greater Partnership with Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Houston's Carverdale landfill is one step closer to expanding despite local protests

Houston Public Media

Dr. Robert D. Bullard Interview: The Segregation of Pollution: How to Support Environmental Justice for Black Neighborhoods

Torey Brown

The Black Sheep Agency Blog

There Can Be No Environmental Justice Without Racial Justice

Taylor Smith-Harris

Blue Water Baltimore

6 Black Scientists and Conservation Advocates You Should Know

Nature Conservancy

What Voting Means for the Planet

Derrick Z. Jackson

Grist

US Pushes for Better Tap Water But Must Win Wary Public

Michael Phyllis

Associated Press

Opinion: With the EPA on board, it's time Texas took Houston's creosote problem seriously

Keith Downey

Houston Chronicle

Why climate change is inherently racist

Jeremy Williams

BBC Future

EPA announced sweeping measures to improve the environmental health of communities in the south

Brandon Walker

KPRC Click2Houston

EPA Takes Action to Combat Industrial Air Pollution

Amy Kofman, Lisa Song

ProPublica

Biden Environmental Justice Advisors Air Frustrations

Kelsey Brugger

E&E News

Five Climate Moves by the Biden Administration You May Have Missed

Marianne Lavelle, Nicholas Kusnetz

Inside Climate News

How Black Communities Become ‘Sacrifice Zones’ for Industrial Air Pollution, Ken Ward, West Virginia Public Broadcasting

Ken Ward Jr., Mountain State Spotlight

WV Public

Climate Research Shifting to Solutions Science

Chelsea Harvey

E&E News

Grand Prairie Superfund Site a Priority for White House Environmental Justice Council Appointee

Alejandra Martinez

KERA News

Air Pollution Still Disproportionately Harms Communities of Color, Study Says

Maxine Joselow

The Washington Post

Renewal of Public Interest in Renewable Energy

Sarmistha R. Majumdar

PA Times

Rotten Eggs, Paint, and Garbage: What Environmental Racism Smells Like

Emma Ockerman

Vice News

We Need Giant Steps: Experts on Impacts of Extreme Rainfall, Drought

Dinah Voyles Pulver

USA Today

“In the Shadow of Texas Gas Drilling Sites, Health Fears Escalate

Cathy Bussewitz and Martha Irvine

Associated Press, ABC News

EPA Administrator Michael Regan Tours Cancer Alley and Other Pollution Hot Spots, Vowing to Promote Environmental Justice

Darryl Fears

The Washington Post

Houston Highway Project Sparks Debate Over Racial Equity

Juan A. Lozano and Hope Yen

Associated Press

On His Journey to Justice EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan Toured Historically Marginalized Communities in the American South, Highlighted Benefits of Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

EPA News Release

EPA chief promises action after Houston residents blame cancer deaths on toxic rail yard

Janet Shamlian

CBS News

Mayor Turner evaluates 'cancer cluster' Kashmere Gardens residents believe railroad caused

Pooja Lodhia and Erica Simon

ABC 13

New project coming to Houston aims to address environmental challenges

Tyler Gibson

CW39 News

‘They forgot about us’: Houston residents ask EPA Administrator Michael Regan to fight for them

Houston Chronicle

“People have already died”: In Houston, residents demand relief from chronic pollution during EPA chief's visit

Wein Douglas

The Texas Tribune

EPA chief to visit Texas neighborhoods plagued by pollution

Erin Douglas

The Texas Tribune

Top U.S. Environmental Regulator to Visit Houston Neighborhoods Where Black and Latino Residents Bear Brunt of Pollution

Erin Douglas

Texas Tribune

The National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF) Welcomes Four New Members to Its Board of Directors

Yahoo Finance News

To Achieve a Just Future, You’ve Got to Know Its Roots

Claire Elise Thompson

Grist Fix Solutions Lab

Freeways Force Out Residents in Communities of Color, Again

Liam Dillon and Ben Poston

Los Angeles Times

Environmental Justice is Essential in the Workplace and at Home

David Michaels and Robert Bullard

The Nation

Watch Experts in Climate, Energy and Environmental Justice Discuss Extreme Weather

KSAT 12

KSAT 12

Environmental Justice: Why Civil Rights and Protecting the Planet Go Hand-in-Hand

Jennifer Collins and Ruby Russel

Deutsche Welle

Peter Dykstra: Environmental Journalism Pioneers

Peter Dykstra

Environmental Health News

The Biden Administration’s Embrace of Environmental Justice Has made Wary Activists Willing to Believe

Agya K. Aning

Inside Climate News

More Trees, Please

Erica Grieder

Houston Chronicle

White House Unveils Strategy for Bringing Environmental Justice to Underprivileged Communities

Andy Uhler

Marketplace

I Wrote About This Environmental Injustice Decades Ago. It Hasn’t Changed

Robert D. Bullard

OpEd, New York Times

Extreme Weather is Hitting More Often: What Does This Mean for Austin’s Future?

Kim Krisberg

Austin Monthly

Environmental Racism is Real, Destructive, and Deadly

Stacy M. Brown

MSR News Online

The Best Books About Environmental Justice, According to Experts

Tembe Denton-Hurst

The New Yorker

Exclusive Interview with Dr. Robert Bullard: Let’s make 2021 the Year of Justice

Marcia G. Yerman

Moms Clean Air Force

The Father of Environmental Justice Isn’t Done Yet

Amal Ahmed

The Nation