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Deborah Wiggins, who lives near the northeast D.C. border, saw her yard fill with three feet of water during the rainstorm on Sept. 10, 2020. (Photo courtesy of Deborah Wiggins)

Climate, Environment, Homeownership

When It Rains, It Pours: Understand Your Home’s Flood Risk Before the Next Storm Hits

by Kayla BenjaminFebruary 27, 2023August 16, 2023

Demonstrators hold a casket symbolic of all the lives lost in their community due to environmental racism. The rally started at Freedom Plaza and headed to the White House part of the People vs. Fossil Fuels Campaign on Oct. 25, demanding a cessation of fossil fuel projects. (Marckell Williams/The Washington Informer)

Black Experience, Black History, Climate, Environment

Celebrating Black History Month: Key Moments in the Environmental Justice Movement

by Kayla BenjaminFebruary 22, 2023August 16, 2023

Community members fought to protect this playground after learning about a zoning proposal for a 16-pump Royal Farms gas station that would have required its removal. From left: Jeff Cronin, Al Powell, Paul Rowe. (Anthony Tilghman/The Washington Informer)

Climate, Community, Environment, Prince George's County

Prince George’s County Almost Tore Down a Playground to Put Up a Gas Station

by Kayla BenjaminFebruary 15, 2023August 16, 2023

Glenn Ross, 73, began leading Urban Environmentalist Toxic Tours in order to clean up his neighborhood and fight environmental injustice. (Courtesy photo)

Baltimorean Cracks the Code for Community’s Environmental Demise

by WI Web EditorFebruary 15, 2023February 16, 2023

**FILE** An electric vehicle charging station (Anthony Tilghman/The Washington Informer)

Climate, Community, Environment

Three Climate Bills Introduced Last Week

by Kayla BenjaminFebruary 8, 2023August 16, 2023

Rhonda Hamilton, community leader and ANC commissioner for single member district 6D08 near Buzzard Point, speaks at a press conference hosted by Stop the Oil Profiteering in front of the Senate building on Feb. 1. Alongside several members of Congress and national advocacy groups, Hamilton urged U.S. legislators to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable in response to record-shattering profits for the industry in 2022. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)

Climate, Environment

Will Oil Companies Use ‘Massive’ 2022 Profits to Lower Gas Prices?

by Kayla BenjaminFebruary 8, 2023August 16, 2023

Mustafa Santiago Ali (Courtesy of Harvard Radcliffe Institute)

Climate, Environment

Environmental Justice on the Ballot

by Kayla BenjaminFebruary 1, 2023August 16, 2023

Community, Environment

D.C. Council Member Wants More EV Charging Stations in City

by James Wright Jr.January 31, 2023January 31, 2023

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., Emmett Till’s cousin and one of the last people to see Till alive, spoke at an event held for the opening of the “Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley: Let the World See” exhibition at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library Thursday. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)

Climate, Environment

Emmett Till Exhibition Opens at MLK Library

by Kayla BenjaminJanuary 27, 2023August 16, 2023

Dany Sigwalt, climate justice advocate and managing director of Green Leadership Trust, speaks at a climate rally outside the DNC in 2020. (Courtesy photo)

Climate, Environment

Spotlight on Black Environmentalists: Dany Sigwalt, Green Leadership Trust

by Kayla BenjaminJanuary 26, 2023August 16, 2023