President Donald Trump’s enforcement of anti-environmentalist policies is nothing new. He started his second term by removing ...

It was exactly four decades ago this month that Rev. Ben Chavis, while sitting in a Warren County jail for driving too slow, came up with the term “environmental racism.” Chavis ended up in the ...

The first piece of legislation to lay down federal regulation of water quality, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, is passed by Congress. This act, known as the FWPCA , will go through ...

During a summer of energy challenges and extreme climate events, the Natural Resources Defense Fund actively advocates for a nuclear power plant to close in California. Progressive climate activists ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every year since 1970, Earth Day has been celebrated as a way to commemorate the environmental protection movement and to bring ...

When Dollie Burwell, now 74, reflects back on the Warren County protests, she thinks about the Black women who led and supported the protesters. For six weeks in 1982, Burwell and hundreds of others ...

Bevington’s own position is clear: “Grassroots biodiversity groups have been the unsung heroes of American environmentalism during the past twenty years.” He describes these groups as “small, radical ...