Black people in the Midwest are 33% more likely to receive lung cancer diagnoses than those living in the country’s 38 other states. In Detroit, Mich., the remains of an abandoned apartment building ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A looming decision to tighten the United States’ air pollution standards would have drastic implications for Black and low-income Americans, a new study found. The research, ...

We analyzed 623 million person-years of Medicare data from 73 million persons 65 years of age or older from 2000 through 2016 to estimate associations between annual PM 2.5 exposure and mortality in ...

For a quarter of a century, a Black neighborhood in Beaumont, Texas, where Chris Jones lives has been the subject of two federal civil rights investigations by the Environmental Protection Agency that ...

More Black Americans are concerned about their local exposure to air pollution than other racial or ethnic groups, a new survey found. Gallup’s survey found 53 percent of Black adults are “very” or ...

For four years, the Environmental Protection Agency made environmental justice one of its biggest priorities, working to improve health conditions in heavily-polluted communities often made up largely ...

Environmental racism describes the idea that non-white people are disproportionately exposed to toxic waste, agricultural chemicals, air pollution and drinking water contamination. Environmental ...

Residents of the mostly Black communities sandwiched between chemical plants along the lower Mississippi River have long said they get most of the pollution but few of the jobs produced by the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. For four years, the Environmental Protection ...