One of the most significant policy developments to emerge in recent years is the concept of environmental justice or "EJ." Indeed, we have been knee-deep in EJ policies, legislation, and regulations ...

Despite the subject being in the crosshairs of the Trump administration, Pennsylvania has doubled down on its environmental ...

The Biden Administration made environmental justice a priority of its environmental programs, even creating new councils focused specifically on environmental justice. It issued new initiatives and ...

Could you imagine living near a hazardous waste site or chemical manufacturing plant or a combination of other industrial polluters? Neither can we, yet this is the reality for so many. For ...

Recyclers argued the state's Department of Environmental Protection overstepped its authority and blocked business operations ...

Environmental justice has come to the forefront of climate initiatives as policymakers seek to create a just transition to net-zero carbon emissions in the U.S. The concept is defined by the EPA as ...

Lycoming College announced the Environmental Justice Symposium, a semester-long series of lectures and hands-on activities ...

Under Gov. Roy Cooper, North Carolina’s government has started to pay attention to environmental justice for the first time in state history, with a pair of executive orders and a state advisory group ...

While the storm called attention to this inequality, residents of the city’s industrial areas, mostly Black and Latino and largely poor, were already used to having little control over the ...

The quote by Wolch, Byrne, and Newell (2014) that introduces this archive emphasizes the relationship between environmental (in)justice and environmental “good and harm.” In other words, EJ refers to ...