President Joe Biden’s promise to secure environmental justice is an ambitious effort to achieve long-sought equity for poor and minority communities that experts say could maybe, finally, put teeth behind the lip service that has been paid to the concept…
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When the leaders of the “Big Green” environmental groups realized last fall that they’d be confronting, at best, a closely divided House and Senate with only a wavering appetite for carbon restrictions, they knew President-elect Joe Biden would need an all-star EPA chief with the savvy necessary to use existing laws to lead the fight against climate change…
A group of wealthy donors is circulating a pledge among large foundations urging them to steer at least 30 percent of their climate-change grants to groups led by people of color, and seven grant makers have already made the commitment…
The Biden administration’s top priorities in its first month in office have focused on addressing the “four converging crises — COVID-19, the resulting economic crisis, climate change, and racial inequity…
Ashindi Maxton was distraught as she toured neighborhoods in Detroit’s 48217 ZIP code and met residents who live in one of the most polluted communities in Michigan…
California’s environmental justice mapping tool offers clear lessons for identifying and targeting benefits to disadvantaged communities…
Addressing environmental justice is a top priority of the Biden-Harris administration.1 Just one week after his inauguration, President Joe Biden designated January 27 Climate Day at the White House and signed a number of executive orders, including one aimed to “Secure Environmental Justice and Spur Economic Opportunity…”
The Central Valley is playing a role in two new programs designed to push forward California’s climate goals. Caltrans has installed 22 new electric vehicle charging stations along Highway 99 and Interstate 5 from Madera to the Grapevine…
Two dozen environmental justice (EJ) groups have come out in support of CalEPA ordering the Kern County ag commissioner to adopt a pesticide notification system…
Sacramento, at least, is excited about Washington’s new climate direction…