Gov. Wes Moore on Thursday signed what advocates called a first-ever executive order on environmental justice, directing ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has informed more than 450 employees working on environmental justice and diversity, equity and inclusion that they will be fired or reassigned, according to an ...

Governor Moore signed an executive order on Friday designed to advance environmental justice and protect communities burdened ...

On the eve of Earth Day, President Joe Biden announced the creation of an Office of Environmental Justice as he lays out a plan to make it "the mission of every single executive agency," the White ...

The Biden Administration has embraced environmental justice, at least in theory, promising to consider it in all decision-making and to direct 40 percent of environment- and climate-related ...

Presidents Clinton, Biden issued orders aiming to correct environmental injustice. On Monday, President Trump issued orders revoking those efforts.

Nearly 170 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights (OEJECR) were placed on paid administrative leave on Thursday, according to ...

Such far-reaching funding “has the power to shift paradigms,” said Catherine Coleman Flowers, founding director of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, who for decades ...

A current EPA staff member in the environmental justice office, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said senior leadership held a two-and-a-half hour call on Wednesday to discuss the logistics of ...

The Justice Department announced on Thursday that it will create a new office focused on environmental justice. “Although violations of our environmental laws can happen anywhere, communities of ...

On Sunday, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson will deliver a sermon at Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Ala., to commemorate the 47th anniversary of Bloody Sunday.