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 ...

Is your neighborhood choked with pollution or facing other environmental woes that you think are discriminatory? You can write to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to request an intervention.

In September 2022, Typhoon Merbok hit Alaska. Alaskan Native communities lost homes, critical food storage, and faced many catastrophic consequences. Philanthropy often responds to these types of ...

Society has to confront a multitude of existential challenges all at once: political instability, the digital divide, climate and environmental justice. Historically, Black communities have been left ...

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with the Rev. Ben Chavis, an environmental justice pioneer. In 1981, ...

In November, a two-alarm fire at Delaware Valley Recycling in Southwest Philadelphia sent thick, black smoke into the air, visible across the city. The smell of burning rubber — caused by burning ...

The U.S. is segregated, and so is pollution. These words come from the so-called “father of environmental justice,” Robert Bullard. As a sociologist, he has proved that minority communities in Houston ...

Around the world, some of us are not able to drink from the tap because the water is loaded with toxic heavy metals that have seeped into the groundwater. Some of us have to stay indoors for days on ...

A census tract in New Haven serves as an example of the Connecticut Environmental Justice Mapping Tool. Credit: Connecticut Environmental Justice Mapping Tool / Screenshot Connecticut is about to ...