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Environmental Justice Developments in 2026: States Take the Lead, Feds Recede

Background The compliance landscape remains active and dominated by varying state approaches to advancing environmental justice (EJ) at the state level. As noted in a previous upda...

Design as Repair: How Architecture Is Advancing Environmental Justice

Environmental justice confronts a simple but uncomfortable truth: the benefits and burdens of the environment are not shared equally. Marginalized communities bear a disproportiona...

Time to End the Injustice of ‘Environmental Justice’

Environmental justice is far from the first policy to harm the people it claims to help. Pulling the plug on as much of this as possible may well be the most important part of Trum...

Environmental Justice Group Sues Over California’s New Cap-and-Trade Rules

The challenge might be procedural, but if successful it would return billions of dollars in funding for transit, housing, and other programs that fight climate change

New York Adopts Regulatory Amendments Implementing Environmental Justice Law

Climate justice from New Mexico to Morocco

Climate justice from New Mexico to Morocco Kate Noble Wed, 06/17/2026 - 10:35

Environmental justice group sues California over carbon market overhaul

The lawsuit claims that California's air regulator rushed changes to its signature cap-and-invest program without proper environmental review.

Kerala’s Climate Plan Speaks the Language of Justice — But Erases Caste

The vulnerability of Dalit and Adivasi communities has been historically produced through land dispossession and forced settlement on hazard-prone slopes and riverbanks.

Health equity is a social justice issue

Health equity can sometimes be discussed in terms of access, but at its core, it is a social justice issue. It reflects who has been systematically excluded from the conditions tha...

Black residents win key ruling in Cancer Alley environmental racism case - The Lens

Black residents win key ruling in Cancer Alley environmental racism case - The Lens

Reimagining Eco-Justice: South Asian Jesuits Move Toward Advocacy

Judge Says EPA Illegally Cancelled a $2.8 Billion Environmental Justice Program

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A federal judge in South Carolina ruled this week that...

Protecting Environmental Rights Defenders Is Key to Giving Communities a Voice

Environmental human rights defenders must be empowered to design and implement their own forms of collective protection to shift the power imbalance. The post Protecting Environmen...

Southeast Asian nations chart important new course toward environmental justice (commentary)

The countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have made an important commitment to environmental justice for the 680 million people who call this region home....

How an Environmental Justice Nonprofit Bolsters Their Litigation Strategy with Ediscovery Tech

How an Environmental Justice Nonprofit Bolsters Their Litigation Strategy with Ediscovery Techby Petra Pasternak

Time for Europe to Recognize the Right to a Healthy Environment

On the eve of World Environment Day, I joined around 400 environmental defenders and policymakers from across Europe in Strasbourg, France, where they gathered at the first Europea...

After a civil rights complaint, Chicago built the nation’s largest air monitoring network

As extreme heat reshapes air quality, the network of 277 monitors is expected to help identify localized pollution hot spots.

DOJ Takes Elon Musk's Side in NAACP Lawsuit Against xAI for Polluting Black Neighborhoods

The Department of Justice has intervened in a legal case involving the world’s first trillionaire, Elon Musk, asking a Mississippi federal court to toss a lawsuit from the NAACP ag...

Community leaders sound alarm over environmental justice as data centers boom across NC

Around 30 local governments have already enacted moratoriums or zoning restrictions on data centers. 

Federal judge rules EPA illegally cut climate justice grants, including $20 million for tribe in NV

Federal judge rules EPA illegally cut climate justice grants, including $20 million for tribe in NV

La comunidad sorda de Puerto Rico enfrenta desigualdad de información ante clima extremo

Denial of Environmental Justice: Would a Bar on Climate Tort Litigation Be Inconsistent with New Zealand’s International...

Like other countries that pride themselves on upholding the rule of law, New Zealand has seen many climate change cases decided by its courts. The most significant is the 2024 judg...

Climate-impacted communities across Asia are taking their fight to court

Worsening climate impacts, corporate greenwashing, and slow government action have driven communities across Asia to the courts.