Extreme heat is hard on the body. It can cause everything from confusion to seizures, let alone serious discomfort. Add a blackout to an ongoing heat wave — so no a/c — and everything gets worse.

Violet Gatensby, a Tlingit artist from Carcross, in Canada’s Yukon territory, startled a room of delegates from First Nations of the Pacific Coast at an Indigenous leadership summit on Lummi territory in Ferndale, Wash., this past week.

In the 20^th century, Oakland, Calif., was shaped by the nefarious policies of urban planners and politicians. Mayor Sheng Thao, the country’s first Hmong American mayor of a large city, has promised to “reverse decades of environmental racism” by implementing a Green New Deal for the city.

Yesterday was a landmark day for environmental justice in the United States. Advocates for the environment have long highlighted that communities of color experience a disproportionate amount of suffering from the climate crisis yet receive the least help from the government.