The environmental movement—green-minded politicians, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, writers, volunteers, and advocacy ...

The first piece of legislation to lay down federal regulation of water quality, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, is passed by Congress. This act, known as the FWPCA , will go through ...

President Donald Trump’s enforcement of anti-environmentalist policies is nothing new. He started his second term by removing almost all mentions of climate change from the Environmental Protection ...

During a summer of energy challenges and extreme climate events, the Natural Resources Defense Fund actively advocates for a nuclear power plant to close in California. Progressive climate activists ...

It was exactly four decades ago this month that Rev. Ben Chavis, while sitting in a Warren County jail for driving too slow, came up with the term “environmental racism.” Chavis ended up in the ...

When Dollie Burwell, now 74, reflects back on the Warren County protests, she thinks about the Black women who led and supported the protesters. For six weeks in 1982, Burwell and hundreds of others ...

While President Biden has called climate change an existential threat, his proposals for addressing it remain modest relative to the enormity of the problem. In part, that’s because he’s taken off the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every year since 1970, Earth Day has been celebrated as a way to commemorate the environmental protection movement and to bring ...

Bevington’s own position is clear: “Grassroots biodiversity groups have been the unsung heroes of American environmentalism during the past twenty years.” He describes these groups as “small, radical ...

1) Environmental and animal protection originate from the same sources, but this was obscured for much of the late twentieth century as the environmental protection movement focused on species ...

US EPA moves to speed clean air permits for power plants, industry The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Monday it would speed up the process for large polluters to obtain clean air ...