This is what often happens when a corporation or governmental entity needs to dispose of toxic waste: It gets left in an overlooked town no one’s heard of.
At an inquiry into mismanagement of the hydro dam — called 'the biggest economic mistake in Newfoundland and Labrador's history' — citizens are finally able to demand answers.
After residents of Bandhwari first raised an alarm over groundwater pollution more than two years ago, the concern has now spread to the surrounding villages.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is working to clean up a former mining equipment operation in Fayette County, known as the Shaffer site.
In an interview with Yale Environment 360, energy researcher Tony Reames discusses the growing energy divide between rich and poor in the U.S. and the urgent need to provide low-income communities with better access to affordable clean energy technologies.
For a decade, a gold rush accelerated in Peru's Tambopata province, then Peru tried something different and installed permanent military bases in the region
Another heavy blow has been dealt to German company Bayer. The firm was ordered by a US court to pay compensation in yet another glyphosate-related case.
Time and time again, the government was putting lower-income neighborhoods and communities of color at greater risk of being exposed to environmental and health hazards.
People living near the copper smelting plant are demanding to know why it's taking the government so long to address their concerns, in the wake of a new study that shows their children have levels of the toxic metals 3.7 times higher than normal.
If elected president, Democratic candidate Beto O’Rourke said he’d launch a $5 trillion plan to combat climate change and invest in communities already dealing with its impact.
The EPA wants to test the yards and interiors of roughly 1,700 houses and 200 commercial properties within a mile-wide circle centered by the old Colorado Smelter site.
Dean's Beans Organic Coffee has become a successful marketer of organic beans grown in agroforestry systems across the tropics, and has won several international sustainability awards for its direct, people-centered approach to development.
Sainsbury’s, Asda, Morrisons and Lidl accused of buying corned beef sourced from Brazilian supplier JBS, a firm notorious for large-scale corruption and Amazon deforestation.
An Inuit land-claim group is asking the federal government to permanently protect large sections of the Eastern Arctic from any industrial development.
