environmental justice

Ann Meador, Cool Revolution/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

May 18, 2022

A Daughter’s Story: White Supremacy and the Poor People’s Campaign

Kate Cell
Senior Climate Campaign Manager

Sara Faraj

April 27, 2022

Michigan Can Transition to 100-Percent Renewable Energy by 2035, Save Lives, and Create Jobs

Guest Commentary

Firefighters stand on a bridge over the Cuyahoga River to spray water on a tugboat as a fire spreads on the water in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1969.

US EPA/Flickr

April 21, 2022

Reconnecting with the Radical Roots of Earth Day

Johanna Chao Kreilick
President

On November 14, 2007, Puerto Rican activist Tito Kayak climbed the construction cranes at the Paseo Caribe project in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and remained perched on a construction crane at the site of a new resort in San Juan for one week, protesting its construction. This is a photo of a blue sky with a yellow construction crane in the foreground, with activist Tito Kayak standing on the crane and a Puerto Rican flag flying at the top.

yasmapaz & ace_heart/Flickr

April 19, 2022

Puerto Rico Deserves Full Benefits of Biden’s Justice40

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

Malu Laker/Unsplash

April 18, 2022

White House Releases More than 300 Plans to Advance Equity and Justice

Anita Desikan
Senior Analyst

Tima Miroshnichenko/Pexels

March 25, 2022

Nearly One Million US Deaths from COVID-19: The Grim Consequences of Sidelining Science

Derrick Z. Jackson
Fellow

National Renewable Energy Lab/Flickr

March 1, 2022

Has the Biden Administration Showed Up for the Voters Who Showed Up for Him?

Sophia Marjanovic
Bilingual Senior Organizer

iStock.com/Olivier Lantzendorffer

February 28, 2022

The Supreme Court Could Block Climate Change Protections

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

Joe Ravi/CC-BY-SA 3.0

February 22, 2022

Supreme Court Decision Could Defang EPA, Threaten Air and Water

Kristy Dahl
Principal Climate Scientist

People for Community Recovery

February 15, 2022

Let’s Honor Hazel Johnson’s Environmental Justice Legacy During Black History Month

Guest Commentary

pxhere.com

January 20, 2022

Three Signs of Progress on Environmental Justice

Anita Desikan
Senior Analyst

Flickr/EGLE

October 19, 2021

EPA Plans to Take Bold Action on PFAS. Will it Be Enough?

Anita Desikan
Senior Analyst

J. Miles Cary/AP Photo/Knoxville News Sentinel

October 13, 2021

Coal Ash Cleanup: Victory for the Environment, the Economy, and Environmental Justice

Jeremy Richardson
Former UCS Fellow & Energy Analyst

USDA/Bob Nichols

September 23, 2021

As Extreme Heat Challenges Our Outdoor Workers, White House Announcement Will Save Lives

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

KTRK via AP

September 20, 2021

Houston We Have a Problem: An Environmental Justice Analysis of Harmful Air Pollution from Industrial Fires

Anita Desikan
Senior Analyst

A. Walker/Wikimedia

August 31, 2021

Historic Black Community Put at Risk by Truck Bridge

Maria Cecilia Pinto de Moura
Senior Vehicles Engineer

a group of science activists marches for science, holding signs that say "Scientists speaking truth to power," and "science serving the common good"

Vlad Tchompalov/Unsplash

August 13, 2021

What We Told the White House about Science Communication and Scientific Integrity

Andrew Rosenberg
Senior Science Advisor

Haze from wildfire smoke obscures a view of San Francisco from across the water. Everything in the photo appears yellow, orange, or brown with the pollution in the air.

Nick Herasimenka/Unsplash

August 4, 2021

Let’s Make Fossil Fuel Polluters Pay—Five Ways to Thwart Their Smokescreen

Kathy Mulvey
Accountability Campaign Director, Climate & Energy Program

LadyDragonflyCC/Flickr

July 15, 2021

The Little Chemical Agency That Could…and Should Do More to Prevent Chemical Disasters

Genna Reed
Senior Analyst

Klaus Eppele/Adobe Stock

July 12, 2021

COVID-19 and Eco-Pandemic Injustice

UCS Science Network

US National Archives

June 11, 2021

New Legislation Addresses Legacies of Pollution in Environmental Justice Communities

Jacob Carter
Research Director

Beto Lugo-Martínez

June 8, 2021

In Armourdale, Kansas, CleanAirNow Envisions a More Equitable and Just Future

Genna Reed
Senior Analyst

Anthony Eyring/UCS

April 22, 2021

Who Wants to Learn More about Climate Change? All Kinds of People!

Astrid Caldas
Senior Climate Scientist

J. Rogers/UCS

April 6, 2021

Massachusetts’s New Climate Law: 5 Reasons to Celebrate!

Paula Garcia
Senior Bilingual Energy Analyst