Black people in the Midwest are 33% more likely to receive lung cancer diagnoses than those living in the country’s 38 other states. In Detroit, Mich., the remains of an abandoned apartment building ...

More Black Americans are concerned about their local exposure to air pollution than other racial or ethnic groups, a new survey found. Gallup’s survey found 53 percent of Black adults are “very” or ...

Over the past four years, the Environmental Protection Agency has tightened restrictions on a host of pollutants and pollution sources, ranging from tougher tailpipe emissions standards for all ...

For a quarter of a century, a Black neighborhood in Beaumont, Texas, where Chris Jones lives has been the subject of two federal civil rights investigations by the Environmental Protection Agency that ...

Environmental racism describes the idea that non-white people are disproportionately exposed to toxic waste, agricultural chemicals, air pollution and drinking water contamination. Environmental ...

Researchers have found racial disparities in how City of Austin residents are affected by pollution. Reports are showing a disproportionate amount of people of color are being sent to the emergency ...

A report by the Environmental Defense Fund found air pollution impacts Black and Hispanic communities more than white ones. Black seniors were found to be three times more likely to die from exposure ...

For four years, the Environmental Protection Agency made environmental justice one of its biggest priorities, working to improve health conditions in heavily-polluted communities often made up largely ...

Imagine waking up one morning and stepping outside to find the sky hidden behind a thick grey haze. The trees look dull, the air smells strange, and the world feels heavier than usual. For decades, ...