Activism

LOUISVILLE, Ky.—When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency responded to a “surface water pollution emergency” on farmland 17 miles south of...

COFFEE COUNTY, Ala.—Ronald McKinnon thinks six years is long enough.  Residents of the Shiloh community, the historically Black neighborhood where...

California chemical engineer Jan Dell knows from her own research when packages lie. She has seen too many containers stamped...

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Managing Producer Jenni Doering with...

Senator Joseph Lieberman did more than perhaps any member of Congress to seek a middle ground solution on climate change—an...

Residents of La Oroya, Peru, known as one of the most polluted cities on Earth, have won a landmark victory...

This article originally appeared in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It is republished with permission. FOLKSTON—As the sun peaked through trees draped...

The Marañón River, which flows from Peru’s Andes mountains into the Amazon river, has “intrinsic” value and possesses the rights...

Germaine Gooden-Patterson has lived in Clairton, Pennsylvania, for more than 15 years, but it wasn’t until she began a job...

Last week, a 22-year-old activist spent nearly 36 hours inside the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Virginia, halting construction on a...