As covered recently on Conduit Street, counties and municipalities looking to promote and further environmental justice (EJ) are experiencing some challenges and some support when it comes to their state and federal partners. Recent federal administration actions have rolled back and even eliminated grant funding for EJ programs, while the US Supreme Court additionally narrowed the...

A decades-old toxic chromium plume from Los Alamos National Laboratory has migrated onto San Ildefonso Pueblo land, the New Mexico Environment Department announced Thursday. There is “no imminent threat to drinking water” on the pueblo or in Los Alamos County, the Environment Department said in a statement. But the new groundwater testing results “are conclusive...

Countries around the world have agreed to put more money toward fighting climate change as this year’s COP30 climate summit concludes in Brazil. A formal decision released over the weekend said the…