Environmental Justice

As the pipeline prepares to double its daily output, the tribe demands a new environmental assessment of the project.

In just six minutes, this film provides context for the recent protests at the sacred site.

The 74 medical and health groups stressed that communities of color are the most at-risk.

The Department of Transportation wants Congress to update the law to send anti-pipeline activists to prison for up to 20 years.

Wealthy nations are getting richer as countries inhabited by people of color get hotter and more economically disadvantaged, say researchers.

A new report explores how people of color are “sidelined” in the fight against climate change—despite the fact that they disproportionately suffer more from its effects.

For more than two years, Indigenous water protectors, Black residents of “Cancer Alley,” Atchafalaya Basin landowners and others have been protesting, suing and, in some cases, doing felony-level direct action, to halt the completion of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline in Louisiana. Here’s the harsh reality of fighting the inevitable in the bayou.

Championed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the plan seeks to eliminate income inequality and support communities of color.

New research shows that the health risks—including cancer—multiply for people living at or near the poverty level.