Over the past eight months, Ashindi Maxton and Danielle Deane-Ryan have spoken to 36 of the nation’s 40 largest climate funders. The pair, who are executive director and senior advisor of the Donors of Color Network, respectively, asked them all the same question: What percentage of the institution’s funding goes to Black, Indigenous and people of color-led organizations?
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An emphasis on wind and solar power, better protection for farmworkers, and more regulatory scrutiny of pesticides are among the highlights of a report advanced by the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council prepared to help guide federal investments in disadvantaged communities…
Drought reporting systems can predict where wells will go dry and help communities prepare to take action before they run out of water…
At the same time that California is expecting a historic $76 billion surplus, the state is tied for third-highest unemployment rate in the country. Millions are struggling with housing and utility debt, a potentially catastrophic fire season is approaching, and the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare deep racial, gender, and economic inequalities in our state…
Tenants at the Manchester Arms apartment complex in Fresno are not the only renters who have suffered unhealthy and unsafe living conditions, despite the Fresno city attorney’s claim that it was a rather isolated incident brought on by the pandemic…
Capitol Hill lawmakers Tuesday questioned one of President Biden’s top picks for the Department of Energy, a woman with a history of activism who will help shape the administration’s focus on environmental justice…
Climate change is affecting all of us. But, like many other challenges in society, it’s hurting communities of color the most…
For decades, large red-hot furnaces cooked the lead from smashed batteries at the Exide plant, just seven miles from Downtown Los Angeles, spouting plumes of toxic air that settled on and contaminated thousands of homes…
All too often, the issue of plastic pollution is reduced to plastic straw bans led by clipboard-carrying college students, VSCO girls, and bracelets made with a promise of saving turtles. It conjures images of a wad of plastic grocery bags or perhaps a garbage island floating in the middle of the ocean somewhere…
Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez is one of the most powerful lawmakers in the Legislature but a controversial bill she proposed on the future of solar power failed after intense pushback from environmentalists and her own party…