Top officials of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency held at least six meetings this month with members of the Make ...

During a summer of energy challenges and extreme climate events, the Natural Resources Defense Fund actively advocates for a nuclear power plant to close in California. Progressive climate activists ...

It was exactly four decades ago this month that Rev. Ben Chavis, while sitting in a Warren County jail for driving too slow, came up with the term “environmental racism.” Chavis ended up in the ...

The first piece of legislation to lay down federal regulation of water quality, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, is passed by Congress. This act, known as the FWPCA , will go through ...

When Dollie Burwell, now 74, reflects back on the Warren County protests, she thinks about the Black women who led and supported the protesters. For six weeks in 1982, Burwell and hundreds of others ...

A strong wave of protests is rising across North India as people come together to protect the Aravalli Range, one of the ...

With the 2024 regular legislative session now in the books, environmental advocates and legislators from both parties agree that South Carolina is emerging as one of America’s greenest red states.

Every year since 1970, Earth Day has been celebrated as a way to commemorate the environmental protection movement and to bring attention to pollution, conservation, and sustainability-related issues.

Bevington’s own position is clear: “Grassroots biodiversity groups have been the unsung heroes of American environmentalism during the past twenty years.” He describes these groups as “small, radical ...

The equivalent at a nurses’ convention would be having Florence Nightingale in attendance. For an auto show, perhaps Henry Ford. It was Grace Lee Boggs for hundreds of environmental justice advocates ...

As a child, Leah Thomas dreamed of becoming a veterinarian. When she arrived at Chapman University in 2013, her fascination with the animal world expanded to studying ecology and declaring a major in ...

While President Biden has called climate change an existential threat, his proposals for addressing it remain modest relative to the enormity of the problem. In part, that’s because he’s taken off the ...