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Hazel Johnson (1935-2011) is considered by many to be the mother of environmental justice. For more than 30 years, she pressed local officials and corporations to clean up toxic waste and pollution in her southeast Chicago community of Altgeld Gardens. (Courtesy of People for Community Recovery) She was a community activist. She was an ambassador of Altgeld Gardens. She was an early mentor to Barack Obama. She was a "thorn in the side" of the Chicago waste industry. She was a wife and mother of seven children. She is the mother of the environmental justice movement. For more...

Rose-Walters Prize Recipients 2020: Armond Cohen, the founder and executive director of the Clean Air Task Force (CATF), a leading force in reducing air pollution and climate pollutants from the nation’s power plants, industries and cars and trucks since its founding in 1996. 2019: The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an international environmental advocacy organization, for work defending America’s wildlands, including the Arctic National Refuge, Bristol Bay in Alaska, and the monuments of the West. 2018: Our Children's Trust, a nonprofit leading a global climate recove...

Black History Month February is Black History Month, and DEC joins the rest of the nation in paying tribute to African American men and women whose significant contributions are woven into the fabric of America's culture. Below DEC is bringing attention to some of the most prolific environmental game changers of yesterday and today. Paying Tribute to a Legacy Members of the Civilian Conservation Corps Unit 1251 C II in the 1930s. In 1933, to combat the turmoil from the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and enlisted thousands o...

The Energy 202: Biden takes aim at historic inequities with his environmental picks Dino Grandoni with Alexandra Ellerbeck A trio of recent picks by President-elect Biden for his environmental team will put environmental justice issues at the center of his administration's agenda. As Juliet Eilperin, Brady Dennis and I report, Biden made a series of firsts with his top-level hiring decisions this week. Those picks are set to seriously tackle the disproportionate impact certain communities face from despoiled air and land. The former vice president is set to nominate Nort...