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You don’t need to report on the environment to investigate environmental justice. The issue intersects with many other topics: politics, planning and zoning, budgets, business, community advocacy, ...

The Environmental Defense Center (EDC), a nonprofit environmental law firm working to protect the Central Coast and the Earth’s climate, has named its ...

Sen. Kesha Ram Hinsdale, D-Chittenden, who introduced the bill, said more than 15 years of work went into the legislation, and it “should represent a major step forward.” File photo by Riley ...

The environmental justice movement seeks to critically examine the climate change crisis through a health equity lens. This involves calling attention to the urgent need to dismantle environmental ...

The Supreme Court appears likely to weaken one of the nation’s bedrock environmental laws, after justices heard a key case on Tuesday. During oral arguments, several of the court’s conservative ...

On the eve of Earth Day, President Joe Biden announced the creation of an Office of Environmental Justice as he lays out a plan to make it "the mission of every single executive agency," the White ...

1) Environmental Justice affirms the sacredness of Mother Earth, ecological unity and the interdependence of all species, and the right to be free from ecological destruction. 2) Environmental Justice ...

In the summer of 2023, Initiatives intern Skye Bluestein conducted important research with the BEI on the intersection of environmental justice (EJ), policy, and business. The resulting paper posted ...

Supreme Court judge justice BV Nagarathna on Saturday described environmental law as “hot law”, explaining that it operates in real time, grappling with uncertainty, evolving science, and the risk of ...

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