Environmental justice in America
A new civil rights battle for clean air and water
Colorado: EPA investigates if pollution unfairly harms Hispanic residents
The agency is evaluating if the state is properly scrutinizing polluters and assessing if minority communities face harm
This nine-year-old was enslaved in the US. Her story could help stop a chemical plant
The life stories of enslaved people are crucial to a legal battle over a Louisiana petrochemical facility that could triple residents’ exposure to carcinogens
Why is this majority Black city grappling with 100-year-old sewers? - video
The people of Mount Vernon, New York face an unpleasant problem inside their homes: sewage. The city’s under-resourced sanitation crew struggles to keep up with complications stemming from its crumbling system
How much air pollution do you live with? It may depend on your skin color
No matter which of the main types of air pollutants you look at, people of color are breathing more of it, US study finds
The plan to transform one of New York City’s dirtiest freeways into green space
The noxious Cross Bronx Expressway could get an upgrade thanks to new federal funding
Will a wildlife refuge benefit a heavily polluted Albuquerque neighborhood?
An urban wildlife refuge is meant to alleviate generations of environmental racism that has beset the historic neighborhood of Mountain View. That’s assuming it can meet the community’s needs
Exclusive: EPA reverses Trump stance in push to tackle environmental racism
Michael Regan, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, launches crackdown on pollution that disproportionately affects people of color
Catherine Flowers and her fight for environmental justice in Alabama
In parts of the American south, many homes don’t have access to working waste treatment – something activist Catherine Flowers is fighting to change
Bad ancestors: does the climate crisis violate the rights of those yet to be born? – podcast
Our environmental vandalism has made urgent the question of ethical responsibilities across decades and centuries
Activists channel Martin Luther King with new national climate campaign
The Poor People’s Campaign, which revived King’s anti-poverty efforts, is taking a modern focus on the environment after the Flint crisis
Air pollution: black, Hispanic and poor students most at risk from toxins – study
‘Children are facing risks that will affect their ability to learn,’ says expert following study covering 90,000 schools across the US
After Harvey, Houston suburb suffers a persistent problem: waves of foul air
Air pollution is a perpetual issue for the mostly Latino community in Manchester encircled by industrial facilities
'Still fighting': Africatown, site of last US slave shipment, sues over pollution
In 1860 the last, illegal, shipment of slaves to the US landed in this part of Alabama. Now hundreds of the largely African American residents are suing an industrial plant claiming it released toxic chemicals linked to cancer
US nail salons: the challenge to protect workers from toxic chemicals
Critics mock an EPA scheme to create ‘healthy salons’, but Julia Carrie Wong hears how it is tackling an ‘epidemic’ of health problems from staff, many of whom are Vietnamese immigrants
'America's dirty little secret': the Texas town that has been without running water for decades
Sandbranch is a small, poor, largely African American community just outside Dallas but its residents have to rely on charitable donations of bottled water
A civil rights 'emergency': justice, clean air and water in the age of Trump
The Trump administration is peeling away rules designed to protect clean air and water, fueling a growing urgency around the struggle for environmental justice, say political leaders, academics and activists
'Cancer Alley' residents say industry is hurting town: 'We're collateral damage'
In Louisiana’s industrial heart, the shadow of Trump’s deregulation push looms as St James residents fight chemical plants, pipelines and laissez-faire policies
