What is environmental justice? The question is already highly complex in legal terms; it doesn't get any simpler philosophically. This talk by Axel Gosseries, Senior Research Fellow and Professor ...

If you were to believe reporting from The New York Times—which is an increasingly unwise idea—the Trump administration is diverting the attention of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from poor ...

The 100-acre Hartford landfill looms over I-91 in the North End. Closed in 2015 and nicknamed Mount Trashmore, the site is leaching PFAS chemicals into sewers, groundwater and the nearby Connecticut ...

On March 11, 2025, Trump’s appointed head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Lee Zeldin, announced the elimination of environmental justice offices throughout the agency. The EPA has ...

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni Doering with Patrice Simms, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and the vice ...

Elon Musk and Donald Trump have gutted federal environmental justice programs. Here’s what's at stake and how we’re fighting back. Elon Musk and Donald Trump have gutted federal environmental justice ...

The New School's interdisciplinary approach to climate action can be understood through the frames of environmental and climate justice. The climate crisis can be understood as a social justice crisis ...

The Trump administration is planning to shutter the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights at the Environmental Protection Agency and has placed nearly 170 employees on ...

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