cumulative impacts

Joe Raedle/Getty Images

October 27, 2025

The NEPA Rollback Is a Direct Assault On Democracy, Here’s What You Need to Know

Guest Commentary

photo of two Navajo women wearing traditional clothing, standing on a sand dune and watching over a group of sheep; on the horizon, several tall rock pinnacles reach up into the blue sky

Ivan Dmitri/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

May 6, 2025

US Uranium Mining Legacy Still Harms the Navajo Nation

Chanese A. Forté
Scientist

four people looking at binders and wearing lab coats.

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/Unsplash

April 3, 2025

Science Silenced, Justice Denied: The Trump Administration’s Attack on NEJAC

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

Olga Subach/Unsplash

March 4, 2025

Transportation Burdens Add to All that Communities Are Already Facing

Kevin X. Shen
Northeast Transportation Policy Analyst/Advocate

a cleanup crew monitors a field near the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment site.

Michael Swenson / Getty Images

March 3, 2025

The East Palestine Chemical Disaster Shows the Need for a Cumulative Impacts Approach

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

Environmental justice activists hold a protest in East Chicago, Indiana

Scott Olson / Getty Images

February 19, 2025

The Trump Administration Is Waging an Attack on Environmental Health and Fair Representation

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

photo of a farm vehicle spraying fertilizer on a field of corn, with a bright, partly cloudy sky in the background

Katie Nichols/ACES

February 11, 2025

Fertilizer Overuse Is Bad Enough. What If You’re Exposed to Multiple Pollutants?

Omanjana Goswami
Interdisciplinary Scientist

a graphic displaying multiple forms of pollution

Union of Concerned Scientists

December 18, 2024

EPA Released a Cumulative Impacts Framework. Where Do We Go From Here?

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

An active oil refinery located next to a single family home in Wilmington, California on September 21, 2022.

Allison Dinner/Getty Images

October 16, 2024

Introducing the Community Guide to Cumulative Impacts

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

Kyger Creek Power Plant viewed from a parking lot off of Ohio State Route 7.

FunksBrother/Wikimedia Commons

September 30, 2024

Protecting Public Health Is Complicated. But Science Can Help, and the Time Is Now.

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

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July 8, 2024

Massachusetts’ Siting Process is Hurting Environmental Justice Populations. Will New Legislation Help?

Paula Garcia
Senior Bilingual Energy Analyst and Energy Justice Lead

Crowd forming a speech bubble

cosmin4000/Getty Images

July 1, 2024

An Investigation into Public Participation Motivated by Memories and a Connection to Home

Guest Commentary

Allison Cain/UCS

June 14, 2024

‘Project 2025’ Would Be Disastrous for Our Nation and Our Climate

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

twisty road sign

Aaron Hill/Pexels

February 29, 2024

A New EPA Plan Offers a Roadmap on Environmental Justice and Cumulative Impacts

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

Robina Weermeijer/Unsplash

September 27, 2023

Children’s Developing Brains Need Protection from Pollutants

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

Erika Nortemann/Shutterstock

April 21, 2023

It’s Time for EPA to Regulate Chemicals by Class

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

Demonstrators outside MN hearing on cumulative impacts

Sierra Club North Star Chapter

March 16, 2023

Minnesota Needs Environmental Protections for Cumulative Impacts. Your State Does Too.

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

ethylene oxide hotspots in MN

March 1, 2023

Minnesota Can Do More to Protect People from Ethylene Oxide Emissions

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

kids with smokestack

National Archives

February 13, 2023

When It Comes to the Cumulative Impacts of Pollution, the Science Is in

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

Dr.s Devon Payne-Sturges and Richard H. Sprinkle

January 23, 2023

Understanding the Science to Better Protect the Public from Cumulative Impacts

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

polluting refinery

Patrick Hendry/Unsplash

November 22, 2022

Cumulative Impacts: Why Environmental Protections Need to Take Them into Account

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

Beto Lugo-Martínez

June 8, 2021

In Armourdale, Kansas, CleanAirNow Envisions a More Equitable and Just Future

Genna Reed
Former Staff