By Dr. Gerri A. Cannon-Smith Take a deep breath. For the one in 10 Mississippi schoolchildren who suffer from asthma, that’s not always an easy thing to do. But new federal funding for electric school buses could help them breathe easier — if our school districts choose to accept it. Asthma, the most common chronic…

By Nicole Mahealani Lum, D.O. Climate change threatens Hawaiʻi’s clean water sources and endangers the health of our people. The Navy fuel leakage into the tap water supply at Oʻahu’s military housing has sickened hundreds. …

by Kimberely Vermeer and Walker Wells As the planet warms and heat waves, hurricanes, and wildfires become more intense, there’s a growing demand to curb climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions. Residential and commercial buildings, which produce about one-third of all U.S. emissions, are a ripe target for carbon reduction. That’s why in a few short years policymakers…

by Ruth Greenspan Bell A week or so after the brutal shock of the 2016 election, I ran into someone I will call Frank. It was a chance meeting in the lively Washington plaza shared by the EPA headquarters, where Frank was a career employee, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where…

by Greg M. Schwartz Gulfport activists have taken their struggle for environmental justice to the national level, naming the U.S. Department of Transportation and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg as defendants in a landmark lawsuit intended to halt a potentially disastrous road expansion project. …

By William Fulton This essay is adapted from William Fulton’s latest book, Place and Prosperity: How Cities Help Us To Connect And Innovate. Located just east of Downtown Houston, the ZIP code 77003 is by some accounts the third-fastest gentrifying postal zone in the country. The ZIP code encompasses East End, also known…

By Paula Daniels Let’s not forget what we learned during 2020 about the fragility of our food supply chains: the prevailing, globalized model is as fragile as a spider web. It can shatter into dangling threads in times of crisis, such as a pandemic or other natural disaster. …

by Ruth Greenspan Bell When you work on climate change, cognitive dissonance is a daily experience. I recently visited West Virginia to bask in the glorious colors of fall. All seemed right with the world — normal in a way that can make one forget the existential crises humming along in the background. I…

by Kalpana Ramiah and Gary Cohen Health care systems are on the front lines of the climate crisis — anchoring disaster response while coping with growing health impacts from heatwaves, wildfires and other weather-related threats. Hardest hit are essential hospitals, which care for the nation’s most climate-vulnerable patients. Within this challenge lies an opportunity. Given their…