South Africa’s water law promises fairness, but ageing infrastructure, weak governance and unequal power leave many without reliable water.
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Detailed data is useful for understanding and addressing environmental effects on people’s lives in ways that become difficult or impossible if only the broadest and blurriest picture is developed.
Some Detroit residents spend as much as 25% of their disposable income on water bills. Many are struggling to keep up.
Environmental impacts are often overlooked in supply chain debates. A new framework shows how businesses can respond more fairly and effectively.
Saudi Arabia and Russia often veto COP agreements, but Colombia and The Netherlands are taking matters into their own hands.
Cleaner air is progress, but injustice remains. Environmental racism still decides who breathes dirty air, who gets sick and who gets heard
Urban green spaces should be better managed to provide places too cool off for the most underserved communities.
Coral reef conservation needs to take an equitable approach and include local impacted communities in decision-making and resource distribution.
Scientists added descriptive terms to the existing general Indigenous frog and reptile names to make them specific.
For many firms, ESG-related social media activity appears to be more about managing their public image than signaling genuine environmental commitment.
The terrain ahead is full of challenges. But, glimmers of a better world are already here.
Which is riskier for your health: a few days of very bad PM₂.₅ exposure or many more days of slightly bad exposure? Researchers developed new metrics to provide better answers.
As renewables account for a growing share of electricity supply, fossil fuel plants are increasingly used to balance fluctuations in renewable generation – emitting health-threatening pollutants.
Montgomery once closed all of its parks rather than desegregate them. Today, the city’s long history of racial inequality is still reflected in the state of its parks and green spaces.
Practices such as redlining left marginalized groups in more disaster-prone areas with poorer quality infrastructure − and more likely to experience prolonged power outages.
For decades, big-box retailers have evaded federal regulation of the pollution their operations generate. But a new air emission rule in Southern California could become a model for state controls.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently ruled that it won’t approve energy projects on Native lands without tribal consent. But many more applications are pending.
Gov. Kathy Hochul hit the brakes on congestion pricing in June but now is ready to roll, with a lower fee. Critics, including New Jersey officials and President-elect Donald Trump, remain opposed.
Climate change is often seen as solely a technical problem. This is a misguided belief. Understanding how to build a better world begins, and ends, with understanding the societies which inhabit it.
On Feb. 7, 2024, the EPA strengthened the federal limit for annual levels of fine particulate air pollution, or PM2.5. Many serious health effects have been linked to PM2.5 exposure.
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Lynton K. Caldwell Professor of Public Affairs, Indiana University
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Associate Professor of Sociology; Co-Founder, Center for Environmental Justice at CSU, Colorado State University
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Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington
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Professor of Geography and Environmental Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Adjunct Lecturer in Urban Studies, The New School
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Professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management and of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Virginia
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Professor, Technoscience studies + History, University of Toronto
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles
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Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupation Health, University of California, Irvine; University of Southern California
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Associate Professor, Honorary Principal Fellow, Informal Urbanism Research Hub (InfUr-), University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor of Applied Environmental Health , University of Maryland
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York Research Chair in Environmental Law & Justice in the Green Economy, York University, Canada
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management, The New School
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Professor of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan