Environment

The driving force behind the climate justice work of a top American civil rights group details how our poorest pay the highest price for environmental degradation.

In response to enormous public pressure, lawmakers have rejected appeals by global corporations and voted to protect the country's people and water supply by banning metallic mining.

A tribunal has ruled against a global company in a case over mining rights. Now we need to block trade deals that allow these investor-state lawsuits. 

An appeals court will rule on the legality of Obama’s plan, which could narrow economic gaps by lowering energy costs and creating jobs. Lawyers for a coalition of states and...

The Pope's new encyclical illuminates a concept we should all get to know better: disparate impact.

Here are five key quotes from the encyclical that will shake up the global climate debate. By Janet Redman Pope Francis just released an “encyclical,” a fancy word for a...

In New Jersey's Ironbound community, environmental inequality is a stark reality. By David Bensman [caption id="attachment_7947" align="alignright" width="458"] Government decisions have generated environmental inequality in New Jersey's Ironbound community of...

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to demonstrate the link between inequality and catastrophic environmental change. But a little help from rocket scientists can certainly help.

The California Constitution says that the water belongs to the people. In reality, agriculture gets most of the water, free or near-free. It’s sounding again like the drought of 1976-77:...