James Hose Jr/Unsplash17 October 2023Top Story Climate change and an aging population New book explores how climate change impacts the elderly in unique ways — and how we can preserve their well-being and include them in solutions.
Op-ed: “I’m sorry, I can’t hear you” — disabling environments in Cancer Alley and the Ohio River Valley For communities plagued by energy extraction and petrochemical buildout, struggles of environmental justice often fall on deaf ears. www.ehn.org
Op-ed: We mobilized to defend the EPA in Trump's first term. This time the stakes are even higher. The rules as we understand them are changing before our eyes.
LISTEN: Timnit Kefela on treating plastic pollution as an environmental justice issue “I’m optimistic we can get this right.” www.ehn.org
LISTEN: Brandon Rothrock on the environment and queer identities "It's important to make queer and LGBTQ+ people central to research and policies and not add them in as an afterthought." www.ehn.org
Environmental journalism loses a hero Peter Dykstra – newsman, provocateur, friend and former publisher of The Daily Climate – passed away Wednesday.
ExxonMobil, LyondellBassel and Chevron among Houston’s top polluters: Report “We know this is a business, and you want to make a profit, but consider the communities next door.”