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The organizing and outrage over inmate heat deaths is reaching a crescendo this summer.

From Appalachia to Texas and Louisiana, new environmental justice reports highlight how our struggles are connected.

From Appalachia to Texas and Louisiana, new environmental justice reports highlight a community approach to climate justice.

Lowndes County, Ala. is hardly the only place in America plagued with sanitation problems.

Four new reports draw connections between the two regions.

The study concludes that policies solely focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions without reducing fossil fuel usage could fail to reduce local air and water pollution, fail to alleviate public health harms, and end up perpetuating the racially inequitable impacts of the fossil fuel economy.

Community and environmental justice leaders, electric grid analysts, and labor representatives release new “Equitable Grid Principles”

A guest at a DOE Black History Month Fireside Chat signed onto the Monday call with a land acknowledgement for a Native American tribe that kept black slaves.

Green hydrogen has garnered plenty of attention in recent years, and now oil and gas companies are looking into it as a way of lowering their emissions.

The government wants to lease offshore wind in the Gulf of Mexico – but the oil industry wants it for its own needs