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A Reckoning in North Birmingham as EPA Studies the ‘Cumulative Impacts’ of Pollution and Racism

By Vernon Loeb

Chicago Mayor Receives Blueprint for ’Green New Deal’ to Address Environmental Justice

By Aydali Campa

European Union Approves Ambitious Nature Restoration Law

By Bob Berwyn

A visitor carries an American flag at the Viola Liuzzo memorial on the side of U.S. Highway 80 in Lowndes County, Alabama, in March 2015. Viola Liuzzo was a civil rights activist who was shot and killed by the Ku Klux Klan while shuttling fellow activists to the Montgomery airport during the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Alabama Black Belt Becomes Environmental Justice Test Case: Is Sanitation a Civil Right?

By Dennis Pillion, AL.com

The Shell plastics plant on the Ohio River in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Credit: Mark Dixon, Flickr, CC BY 2.0.

Q&A: What to Do About Pollution From a Vast New Shell Plastics Plant in Pennsylvania

Plaintiff Mica Kantor, 14, testifies on the second day of the trial. He shared that he felt like a "prisoner in his own home" when he contracted Covid during an outbreak of wildfire smoke and was forced to stay in his basement alone. He suffers from asthma and must stay indoors when the air quality is poor. Credit: Richard Forbes

In a Montana Courtroom, Debate Over Whether States Can Make a Difference on Climate Change, and if They Have a Responsibility to Try

By Richard Forbes

How Daniel Ellsberg Opened the Door to One of the Most Consequential Climate Stories of Our Time

By David Sassoon

UN Adds New Disclosure Requirements For Upcoming COP28, Acknowledging the Toll of Corporate Lobbying

By Bob Berwyn

Roundup Weedkiller Manufacturers to Pay $6.9 Million in False Advertising Settlement

By Liza Gross

Activist Group ‘Names and Shames’ Cargill and Its Heirs to Keep Deforestation Promises

By Georgina Gustin

Lead plaintiff Rikki Held on her family's ranch in southeastern Montana. Behind her, a wildfire burns four miles away. In Summer 2022, this was one of 18 wildfires within 50 miles of her home.

Love of the Land and Community Inspired the Montana Youths Whose Climate Lawsuit Against the State Goes to Court This Week

By Richard Forbes

UN Considering Reforms to Limit Influence of Fossil Fuel Industry at Global Climate Talks

By Bob Berwyn

Operator Error Caused 400,000-Gallon Crude Oil Spill Outside Midland, Texas

By Martha Pskowski

Supreme Court Sharply Limits the EPA’s Ability to Protect Wetlands

By Emma Ricketts

Montana’s New Anti-Climate Law May Be the Most Aggressive in the Nation

By Kristoffer Tigue

Chicago, HUD Settle Environmental Racism Case as Lori Lightfoot Leaves Office

By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Appeals From Fossil Fuel Companies in Climate Change Lawsuits

By Emma Ricketts

Q&A: The Power of One Voice, and Now, Many: The Lawyer Who Sounded the Alarm on ‘Forever Chemicals’

By Victoria St. Martin

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