Earth Week 2023 brought with it two significant environmental justice developments. The week began with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy announcing the adoption of regulations aimed at reducing ...

Ana Gonzalez, executive director of the Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice, stands in front of her home in Rialto, California. A warehouse went up in front of her old house and now ...

In the summer of 2023, Initiatives intern Skye Bluestein conducted important research with the BEI on the intersection of environmental justice (EJ), policy, and business. The resulting paper posted ...

In October 1991, the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit brought together close to 300 Black, Latino, American Indian, Pacific Islander, Asian American, and other activists ...

A group of protesters assembles outside the California State Capitol Building in Sacramento. In the past decade, the city has begun to build a cohesive environmental justice movement, a UC Davis study ...

In her talk, Pastor Neddy Astudillo used examples from Florida to describe how environmental racism, human rights and ...

The environmental justice movement seeks to critically examine the climate change crisis through a health equity lens. This involves calling attention to the urgent need to dismantle environmental ...

Communities across the nation are losing federal funds that helped pay for environmental justice efforts designed to mitigate the health effects of pollution and other hazards on historically ...

In mid-February, when the White House unveiled the beta version of its Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool, it was met by sharp criticism from environmental justice advocates: A mapping tool ...