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Over-polluted communities vow to fight despite EPA's rollback on environmental justice

NPR Topics: Environment

By: Nate Perez

23 May 2025 at 20:39

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Federal funding freeze halts key infrastructure projects in tribal communities

NPR Topics: Environment

By: Nate Perez

15 April 2025 at 01:55

Homes in the Yupik Eskimo Village of Quinhagak on the Yukon Delta in Alaska are threatened by shoreline erosion as climate change makes the planet warmer. More than 22 tribes and nonprofits in the U.S., including Alaska, have had millions of dollars in federal funds for infrastructure projects frozen. Some of those projects were meant to help address the impacts of climate change.

Riverbank stabilization, lead and asbestos contamination are just some of the projects tribes planned to address before the Trump administration froze funds.

(Image credit: Mark Ralston)

Farmworkers feed the country, but who protects them from wildfire smoke?

NPR Topics: Environment

By: Nate Perez

3 February 2025 at 22:39

A farmworker laboring through high winds near a brush fire in Camarillo, CA on Jan.23, 2005. Employers in California are legally required to provide N95 respirators to workers when the Air Quality Index reaches 150.

Thousands of farmworkers labored in fields in Ventura County, Calif. in late January in wildfire smoke. They have little to no protection from its harmful effects.

(Image credit: Brian van der Brug)