Black youth are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, toxic air, water pollution, and other environmental injustices. The Biden Administration’s announcement of clean school buses in Jackson, Mississippi, along with the additional $900 million, marks significant progress in addressing the needs of historically excluded communities.
The devastating Cyclone Chido, which struck France's Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte on Saturday, is feared to have caused several hundred fatalities, a local official has cautioned. The...
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has come under scrutiny for its placement of air quality monitors, which are disproportionately located in predominantly white neighborhoods across the United States....
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The final defendant among five individuals charged with plotting to attack an energy facility has been sentenced today. Jordan Duncan, a 29-year-old resident of Bailey, North Carolina, received...
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A federal appellate court is currently reviewing a civil rights lawsuit accusing a parish in southern Louisiana of implementing racially discriminatory land-use policies by allowing polluting industries to...
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In the lead-up to this fall’s elections, much attention has been given to the Republican Party’s progress with Latino voters in the traditionally Democratic Rio Grande Valley. However,...
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