Environmental Justice

YES! Media’s environmental justice coverage recognizes that people are not separate from the environment but are an integral part of it—and responsible for its care. Because Indigenous and frontline communities suffer the worst impacts of environmental injustice, we center their experiences and solutions in our coverage. We lift up the stories of people who are holding polluters accountable, passing life-sustaining legislation, enshrining the legal rights of nature, and decolonizing their relationship with the land. As such, we don’t aim to “save” the environment, but to move away from extractive models (and industries) that create inequitable and unlivable futures for all living things. Instead, we feature intersectional, holistic models that balance the needs and rights of all life—human and non-human—on this planet.