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Rethinking highway expansion in the face of climate concerns

As the U.S. grapples with climate change, activists are challenging the traditional expansion of highways, highlighting the environmental and community impacts.

Shannon Osaka reports for The Washington Post.

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EPA is backing down from environmental justice cases nationwide

The agency has pumped the brakes on Civil Rights Act investigations out of apparent fear that a Louisiana challenge could make it to the Supreme Court.

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Canada passes Bill C-226 to combat environmental racism

Agents of Change: 2022-2023 Cohort

Read the ideas and solutions from our fourth cohort.

2022-2023 Cohort

How to free ourselves from the scholar-activist dilemma

Protecting Indigenous children means protecting water

The global food system is failing small-scale farmers — here’s how to fix it

Water injustice on display in the Southwest US

A love note to brown women facing beauty injustices

Restoring our waters is restoring ourselves

Reducing soil toxics in community gardens

It’s not just hair — fighting beauty injustice beyond the individual

Tapping into the power of community to make informal settlements healthier

Mourning family and climate change in the age of loss and damage

A radical solution to make US affordable housing healthy and community-driven

Farmworkers’ vicious cycle of precarious employment, exploitation and climate change

When a home is not a sanctuary but a sickening, expensive trap

Public lands are not neutral. We must grapple with their racist roots

Agents of Change: New fellows will focus on collaboration, impact, and justice

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2021-2022 cohort

2020-2021 cohort

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Rethinking highway expansion in the face of climate concerns

Adam Mahoney: Pollution is driving Black Americans to the South. It may not be any better.

‘Certainly intimidation’: Louisiana sues EPA for emails of journalists and ‘Cancer Alley’ residents

How a Black Miami neighborhood became ‘ground zero for climate gentrification’

EPA is backing down from environmental justice cases nationwide

A Harris presidency could reshape the US climate policy

Trump's push for fossil fuels could clash with Europe's green transition

The US funds lithium mining, risking water supplies

Hollywood’s quest to cut carbon emissions

Some US cities are promoting themselves as climate refuges despite concerns

Supreme Court to rule on key environmental cases

Construction worker's tragic end highlights the deadly impact of extreme heat on workers

Amid LNG’s Gulf Coast expansion, community hopes to stand in its way