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![Deb Haaland against a background of the Navajo Nation]()
![Deb Haaland against a background of the Navajo Nation]()
Deb Haaland is making room for marginalized communities in the Interior Department
The first Native American cabinet secretary told Grist she’s going to give environmental justice communities a seat at the table.
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![Photo of Cook County Jail with images of pollution on top of it]()
![Photo of Cook County Jail with images of pollution on top of it]()
America’s biggest jails are frontline environmental justice communities
The three biggest county jail systems in the U.S. demonstrate how incarcerated people are uniquely exposed to environmental hazards.
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How Wall Street funds environmental injustice against women
A new report examines the link between banks, fossil fuels, and health risks to women
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A World of Equal Weight
An Aboriginal family beat back a fossil fuel conglomerate. It started with a walk.
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![Social activists, homeless residents, and supporters rally at the start of a 24-hour vigil to block a planned shutdown of a homeless encampment at Echo Lake Park in Los Angeles]()
![Social activists, homeless residents, and supporters rally at the start of a 24-hour vigil to block a planned shutdown of a homeless encampment at Echo Lake Park in Los Angeles]()
As COVID restrictions lift, green spaces are the front lines in a fight for housing justice
L.A.’s Echo Park was an oasis for the unhoused during the pandemic — until the city forcibly removed them.
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Cascadia’s communities of color speak out against climate injustice
Activists say the government must listen to long-marginalized communities that feel climate change’s biggest impacts.
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Migrant children are being held in toxic U.S. detention centers
The Biden administration is preparing to detain thousands of migrant children at sites with histories of toxic contamination.
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![A Dollar General sign in Selma, Alabama]()
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Report: These stores offer bargain prices — and toxic products
U.S. retailers have a long way to go to phase out hazardous chemicals from their products and packaging.
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Fighting pipelines to the last mile
In British Columbia, Native communities, activists, and local government are split over new pipelines and their environmental risks.
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Why activists distrust this plan to cut emissions from cars and trucks
Many environmental justice advocates worry the interstate climate initiative will leave overburdened communities behind.
