The state previously used poverty and race to define environmental justice areas. Under that definition, 179 areas were in the state’s 48 rural counties, according to the DEP. Under the updated ...

Environmental justice (EJ) is understood in many different ways ... as well as opportunities for meaningful participation in shaping healthy communities. The current legal definition of EJ, used by ...

The Biden administration made environmental justice a key part of EPA policy ... And I got a little sheet of paper and jotted out a definition: environmental racism is racial discrimination ...

The cuts include $20 million for a new climate resilience center in southwest Denver and money for trees along I-70 in ...

The bill brings to the spotlight what are known as environmental justice areas ... slightly expanded the definition of “electric generating facilities” and added public health as one of ...

developers and agencies are incentivized to give "community or neighborhood character" the narrowest definition possible, as to not consider environmental justice impacts a category for negative ...

It should do so immediately upon taking office. Biden’s environmental-justice agenda belongs high on the list. In his first week in office, Biden signed Executive Order 14008, which committed the ...

Over the past four years, the Biden administration said it has funneled hundreds of billions of dollars to help towns and neighborhoods most harmed by pollution. The money, largely through the ...

That included the revoking of Executive Order 12898, President Bill Clinton’s landmark order establishing federal actions to address environmental justice in minority and low-income populations ...

What shocked me most, however, was discovering the environmental justice movement happening just a few neighborhoods away from my home and right under my nose. This Southeast Chicago movement was ...

Nearly 170 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights (OEJECR) were placed on paid administrative leave on Thursday, according to ...