Environment

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.

The EPA’s inspector general says the agency’s passivity worsened a “catastrophic situation.”

The agency released a report that supports the criticisms leveled against it.

A federal judge will decide if Puerto Ricans forced to evacuate their homes following Hurricane Maria will be evicted from their hotels and motels, as FEMA seeks to end the Transitional Sheltering Assistance program.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation features sites of historic and cultural importance to Black, Indigenous, Latinx and Carribean communities on its 2018 list of the “11 Most Endangered Historic Places.”

Doctors and public health officials say they have “never seen anything like this.”

The number of Indigenous people who could be negatively impacted is larger than those living near the Dakota Access pipeline.