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**FILE** A playground at Parkview Recreation Center used by Bruce-Monroe Elementary School has closed after a routine test found lead levels higher than federal standards allow. (Anthony Tilghman/The Washington Informer)

What on (Our) Earth is Going On?

by Kayla Benjamin March 1, 2023August 16, 2023

Freight Train through Turves

JEALOUS: It Shouldn’t Take a Fiery Crash and Toxic Spill to Push Action on Railroad Safety

by Ben Jealous February 22, 2023February 23, 2023

Demonstrators hold a casket symbolic of all the lives lost in their community due to environmental racism. The rally started at Freedom Plaza and headed to the White House part of the People vs. Fossil Fuels Campaign on Oct. 25, demanding a cessation of fossil fuel projects. (Marckell Williams/The Washington Informer)

Celebrating Black History Month: Key Moments in the Environmental Justice Movement

by Kayla Benjamin February 22, 2023August 16, 2023

Community members fought to protect this playground after learning about a zoning proposal for a 16-pump Royal Farms gas station that would have required its removal. From left: Jeff Cronin, Al Powell, Paul Rowe. (Anthony Tilghman/The Washington Informer)

Prince George’s County Almost Tore Down a Playground to Put Up a Gas Station

by Kayla Benjamin February 15, 2023August 16, 2023

Glenn Ross, 73, began leading Urban Environmentalist Toxic Tours in order to clean up his neighborhood and fight environmental injustice. (Courtesy photo)

Baltimorean Cracks the Code for Community’s Environmental Demise

by Alexis Durham February 15, 2023February 16, 2023

**FILE** An electric vehicle charging station (Anthony Tilghman/The Washington Informer)

Three Climate Bills Introduced Last Week

by Kayla Benjamin February 8, 2023August 16, 2023

Rhonda Hamilton, community leader and ANC commissioner for single member district 6D08 near Buzzard Point, speaks at a press conference hosted by Stop the Oil Profiteering in front of the Senate building on Feb. 1. Alongside several members of Congress and national advocacy groups, Hamilton urged U.S. legislators to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable in response to record-shattering profits for the industry in 2022. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)

Will Oil Companies Use ‘Massive’ 2022 Profits to Lower Gas Prices?

by Kayla Benjamin February 8, 2023August 16, 2023

Mustafa Santiago Ali (Courtesy of Harvard Radcliffe Institute)

Environmental Justice on the Ballot

by Kayla Benjamin February 1, 2023August 16, 2023

D.C. Council Member Wants More EV Charging Stations in City

by WI Web Staff January 31, 2023January 31, 2023

Dany Sigwalt, climate justice advocate and managing director of Green Leadership Trust, speaks at a climate rally outside the DNC in 2020. (Courtesy photo)

Spotlight on Black Environmentalists: Dany Sigwalt, Green Leadership Trust

by Kayla Benjamin January 26, 2023August 16, 2023

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