Environment

Federal courts halted moves by the Trump administration that would have contaminated water sources and destroyed Native cultural artifacts.

This group of workers—many of whom are of undocumented status—have to choose between asking for help from FEMA and being deported by ICE.

A coalition including Defend Puerto Rico, Free Press and the Center for Media Justice wants the FCC to account for how Hurricane Maria destroyed the island’s telecommunications and to map out how to fix it.

“If Governor McMaster truly does not want to ‘gamble with the lives of the people of South Carolina,’ he needs to make sure that the prison system is up to par, or evacuate the inmates just as he has ordered the rest of us to do.”

Global warming not only impacts the strength of the storm, but it can also impact the mental health of those affected by it. 

There are marked racial differences in the cost of disasters.

The completed pipeline would expose Black communities along its path to dangerous levels of pollution, says the NAACP.

Some 2,000 incarcerated firefighters from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation are earning just $2 a day to contain the largest wildfire ever recorded in the state’s history.

The 77-year-old man’s majority Black hometown—Reserve, Louisiana—carries a cancer risk more than 700 times the national average.