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After a Hard Year for Environmental Justice, Chicago Communities Are Picking Up the Pieces

Inside Climate News · By Amber X. Chen · last updated
When the EPA abruptly terminated “Community Change” grants, the impacts rippled across the country. Chicago groups that won and then lost one of those grants are still feeling the impacts.

By Amber X. Chen

In her 40 years as an environmental justice organizer, Cheryl Johnson had never seen environmental funding as revolutionary as the Community Change grant.