Darryl Fears

• Environment

Highway and city planners saddled a once-proud Black community with freeways and diesel fumes, while more affluent neighborhoods were spared such burdens.

• Climate & Environment

The Tennessee Valley Authority's move to dump coal ash in south Memphis shows how industries work to fight their way into communities of color already teeming with pollution.

• Climate & Environment

Seattle Audubon says its namesake, John James Audubon, an ardent proponent of slavery, does not fit its values of diversity and inclusion.

• Climate & Environment

Leaders in Europe are calling for climate change action as heat waves break centuries-old records, while U.S. officials are loath to address climate policy amid extreme heat.

• Climate & Environment

The data released Tuesday by Aclima — a California-based tech company that measured the region’s air quality block-by-block for the first time — found that communities of color and low-income communities are exposed to much more pollution than mostly White communities.

• Climate & Environment

Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta said the strategy demonstrates a “commitment to ensuring that all Americans have access to clean water to drink, clean air to breath and healthy thriving communities to live, work and raise their families.”

• Climate & Environment

Jalonne L. White-Newsome, an academic who has worked in government and with grass-roots activists, was selected to be the Council on Environmental Quality’s new senior director for environmental justice.

• Climate Solutions

As recently as 2021, red wolves were “coding extinction … a ghost species,” one environmentalist said. Then the Biden administration took notice.

• National

Thousands of drilling operations are within 100 meters of redlined communities, according to a new study.