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EPA Administrator Michael Regan recently completed a tour from Mississippi to Texas, highlighting low-income, mostly minority communities affected by industrial pollution.

Black residents of Southeast Louisiana, dedicated to fighting air and soil pollution in their own neighborhoods and towns met with EPA Administrator Michael Regan on his “Journey to Justice,” listening tour, sharing their stories and frustrations. Read more.

Entergy’s new power plant was supposed to help New Orleans East recover after a storm like Hurricane Ida. When it didn’t, residents started pushing for cleaner, safer energy.

  Drums beat while the Black Brook Singers, an Aquinnah group specializing in powwow and the traditional eastern Native American singing, performed a song signaling the beginning of the first celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day on Martha’s Vineyard.  Once the drums quieted, the wind whispered through as the audience listened in hushed silence to the […]

Amplify Energy said it was investigating if an anchor caused the pipeline failure, with CEO Martyn Willsher calling it “one of the distinct possibilities,” during a news conference on Monday.

Just one more holiday weekend to get through and then the season is officially over. Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day weekend everyone. Let’s all take a deep inhale and exhale. We made it through a very intense and strange season. Good work. Happy Cranberry Day (Tuesday, Oct. 12) to the original Islanders. I cannot wait to […]

The botched court appearances for Ronnie Wright, 43, prompted even more finger-pointing among city and state corrections, as well as an Inspector General investigation into the bizarre ordeal.

A high-ranking homicide prosecutor in the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office will be grilled Tuesday about his role in the failure to turn over a key document in a 2006 murder case that sent a man to prison for 15 years and counting.

Robert Bullard Isn’t Done Yet More than 40 years after the Texas Southern University professor researched the first environmental justice case, communities of color still face an uphill battle claiming their right to clean air and a healthy neighborhood. Federal environmental justice legislation could change that. More than 40 years after the Texas Southern University professor researched the first environmental justice case, communities of color still face an uphill battle claiming their rig...

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