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, ...

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 ...

A new report shows Black Americans ages 65 and older are three times more likely to die from diseases related to pollution exposure than white Americans of the same age. The analysis, released earlier ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is currently considering new limits on PM2.5 air pollution. Implementing stronger limits would protect the health of all Americans, and in particular could reduce ...

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 ...