EPA has asked its staff for help as the agency readies to push out a high volume of grants for environmental justice, a top priority of the Biden administration.

Their descendants persevered through slavery, the Civil War, and past racism. Now the Gullah/Geechee people of South Carolina face another threat: rising seas and the government actions it triggers.

Two long-standing practices by the Federal Emergency Management Agency came under attack yesterday from commenters at a virtual forum who said they block disadvantaged communities from accessing billions of dollars in climate mitigation funds.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Byhalia Connection pipeline, a 50-mile oil conduit planned to run through and around Memphis, has come under fire from environmental groups and community activists. Opponents are also seeking to harness deep-seated resentment from years of pollution from the heavy industry that flanks the city's heavily Black southwest corner.

Two new studies, including one funded by the Energy Department, are building a case for residential solar to become part of the toolbox for environmental justice.

Water shortages, lack of indoor plumbing and water contamination fueled the spread of COVID-19 in the Navajo Nation.

One of the most effective environmental justice groups you never heard of operates not from New York City or Washington, but from a tiny town in northern Florida at the edge of the Alachua Sink, an ancient lake bed that fills up during major storms.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — An effort cast as a fight for environmental justice yesterday ran headlong into the persuasive powers of the oil industry.

Even before the pandemic, Louisville, Ky., faced staggering obstacles to upgrading its sewage and flood control infrastructure.

Highways are emerging as a focal point for environmental justice activists across the country following the Department of Transportation's intervention in a Texas project last month.

EPA Administrator Michael Regan today directed top aides to take "immediate and affirmative steps" to engage with pollution-burdened, underserved communities, including on enforcement, permitting, rulemaking and other policies.

The Biden administration's $2.2 trillion infrastructure plan promises to seed a transformation toward a more democratic energy system, but its embrace of "next-generation" technologies may spark environmental justice battles, analysts say.

In 2017, as a federal air pollution inquiry into an Alabama fuel plant dragged into its sixth year, someone well known to the plant's executives took the reins at EPA's regional office in Atlanta.

While the Biden administration trumpets a renewed commitment to environmental justice, a decadelong saga surrounding the ABC Coke complex exposes the barriers to achieving those equity goals.

MINNEAPOLIS — Black people faced overt discrimination on this city's public golf courses until the 1950s. Now climate change is elevating golf's racist past once again.

While the height of Texas' blackouts left more than 4 million homes and businesses without power, some experts say low-income areas and communities of color bore the brunt of much of the crisis.

Razing one of the nation's largest coal plants in December slashed emissions. But it also took jobs away from some of the people who are hit hardest by climate change.

Front line or fence line?

Years ago, as a recent college graduate interested in fashion advertising, Paula Glover had two job offers on the table: One was in the payroll department at the fashion company Escada; the other was a temp job at a gas company.

Communities of color that have long suffered from fossil fuel pollution are harnessing growing influence on the national stage as President Biden races to address climate change.

With the stroke of a pen, President Biden brought nearly half a century of environmental justice activism to its culmination yesterday, signing an executive order that promises a governmentwide approach to the disproportionate pollution burdens faced by many communities of color.

Some of the most significant environmental justice actions taken early under President Biden could run through a major toxic chemicals law.

A federal advisory panel has issued a startling report that says government disaster aid exacerbates inequality by enriching affluent areas and shortchanging low-income and minority communities.

Holiday shopping looks different this year as the pandemic pushes customers from brick-and-mortar stores to online retail.

In a segregated community outside of an Alabama oil refinery, chronic illness tells a story of racial inequality, poverty and disease as the United States approaches 300,000 deaths from COVID-19.

When Carmen Storms, 69, looks down at the trees of Melnea Cass Boulevard from her eighth-floor apartment, she thinks of her father, Alvin — twice driven from his home during Boston's urban renewal boom of the 1950s and '60s, when the city used eminent domain to raze the homes and businesses of Black families.

They may not march with Black Lives Matter, but you wouldn't know it from the tone struck by chief executives of some of the largest U.S. electric companies.

Nationwide protests over racial injustice in recent weeks are stirring a fight against a deep-rooted energy gap in U.S. households.

Industrial pollution is a risk factor in the era of COVID-19. But an oil refinery in Artesia, N.M., poses a heightened threat to residents: It has some the nation's highest annual emissions of cancer-causing benzene after a decade of slack government oversight.

PHILADELPHIA — Last June's catastrophic explosion at the East Coast's biggest oil refinery provided a stark illustration of the hazards to nearby Philadelphia neighborhoods. But even in its wake, officials gave no notice to residents that the now-bankrupt refinery had registered some of the highest levels of cancer-causing benzene emissions in the country.