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THOMPSON: Reducing Negative Health Impacts from Transportation on Communities of Color

by Antoine M. Thompson October 14, 2023October 16, 2023

Parisa Norouzi, executive director of community justice group Empower DC, leads a “toxic tour” highlighting pollution from a chemical factory and the fight for green space in the Ivy City neighborhood Sept. 26. (Kayla Benjamin/The Washington Informer)

EPA Launches Regional Environmental Justice Training Grants at Ivy City Event

by Kayla Benjamin October 4, 2023October 6, 2023

Rev. Lennox Yearwood, president and CEO of the Hip Hop Caucus, speaks at the Lincoln Memorial for the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)

‘Racial Justice is Climate Justice’: Hip Hop Caucus CEO Emphasizes Environmental Justice at March on Washington

by Kayla Benjamin August 28, 2023July 3, 2024

Rev. Dr. Ambrose Carroll Sr. (Courtesy of The Green Church)

Why Green The Church Connects Faith With Climate Justice

by Maya Richard-Craven, Special to The Informer via Word in Black August 9, 2023July 3, 2024

Ivy City environmental justice activist Sebrena Rhodes climbs into a car equipped with specialty air quality sensors for a ride-along through her neighborhood following the official launch of the District’s hyperlocal air quality monitoring pilot program. (Kayla Benjamin/The Washington Informer)

Coming Soon to a Neighborhood Near You: Air-Quality-Monitoring Cars

by Kayla Benjamin May 26, 2023August 16, 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

Mustafa Santiago Ali (Courtesy of Harvard Radcliffe Institute)

Environmental Justice on the Ballot

by Kayla Benjamin February 1, 2023August 16, 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

Naadiya Hutchinson speaks at a climate rally in front of the Supreme Court building in D.C. on July 6. (Kayla Benjamin/The Washington Informer)

EPA Announces $100M in Environmental Justice Grants

by Kayla Benjamin January 12, 2023August 16, 2023

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JEALOUS: Ready For Our Earth Shot

by Ben Jealous January 4, 2023January 5, 2023