Mr. Clapp is a journalist and the author of “Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash,” from which this essay is adapted.

The film sheds light on Milwaukee's ongoing battle with lead poisoning and the deep disparities African Americans face in the ...

The commissioner of the International Boundary and Water Commission says they’ve made progress at the long-neglected South ...

There’s no doubt that corporations have been getting away with dumping their pollution into our environment for decades and that they’re especially emboldened to pollute in low-income communities ...

U.S. Steel mines iron ore in Minnesota and sends it across Lake Superior on freighters a thousand feet long. At Sault Ste.

Advocates and former EPA officials say the imminent closure will likely have lasting harmful impacts on Black, brown and poor ...

One bill that would have required oil companies to help pay for damages from climate-driven disasters failed and another that ...

This story was originally reported by Jessica Kutz of The 19th. Under the Biden administration, the environmental justice ...

President Trump's new administration is reversing Biden's Justice40 initiative, threatening environmental justice and climate ...

Without concerted action, pollution threatens to leave the Drin River and its main tributaries “lifeless”, environmentalists ...

The Trump administration is also trying to freeze or claw back about $3 billion in grants created in the name of ...

Emery Davis (right) a conservation agronomist with Heartland Co-Op describes a bioreactor to Iowa Secretary of Agriculture ...