Urbanization interrupts what used to be large areas of wildlife habitat leaving smaller unconnected areas that limit food, shelter, and successful reproduction.

Eelgrass provides some of the world’s most important habitat for an incredible array of ocean species and the water off the coast of New York is warming too fast for it to adapt.

New York has the second-strongest gun laws in the country, with one of the lowest rates of gun violence and gun ownership, and now has a gun industry liability law intended to hold gun manufacturers and dealers accountable.

Nearly half of the people in New York live with disproportionate burdens from pollution especially Black and Hispanic people who are also the most effected by the dangers of heat due to the climate crisis.

The Biden Administration raised the rate for oil and gas extraction on public lands including in New Mexico.

Ninety-three federally endangered, threatened and candidate species are at risk from the border wall and related infrastructure including jaguars and ocelots whose crucial migration are being blocked.

New Mexico ranks 46 in income inequality which contributes to decreased lifespans, educational attainment, and is associated with infant mortality.

Every year, the federal government poisons, traps, and guns down as many as two million animals including otters, foxes, and coyotes who are much needed predators, at the request of a minority of ranching and agricultural interests.

New Mexico ranks last in child welfare including economic well-being and education.

An increasing number of whales, whose populations are still recovering from centuries of hunting, are ending up dead on beaches in New Jersey and other coastal states.

Mass incarceration of people of color, prison conditions, polluted water, and an increase in the use of isolation are just some of the reasons for prison reform including in New Jersey where treatable diseases are often ignored.

New Jersey has among the strongest gun laws in the United States with has one of the lowest rates of firearm deaths and firearm ownership in the country.

New Jersey has some of the highest income inequity in the country which is associated with decreased life expectancy, educational attainment, and infant mortality.

Black women in New Jersey have a much greater rate of maternal mortality than white women.

The shortnose sturgeon is federally endangered and extirpated from most of its historic range from Florida to Canada because of habitat degradation such as dams, dredging, and water pollution.

High levels of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found in New Hampshire soil samples raise questions about food and water pollution.

New Hampshire maintains a moratorium on bobcat hunting when Maine, Massachusetts, and Vermont allow it.

New Hampshire rolled back child labor protections that prevent teenagers from working unlimited hours even on school nights.

New Hampshire’s weak gun laws put it in the “national failures” category of gun law strength, making it an outlier in its region. Its neighboring states’ good gun control is a partial explanation for New Hampshire’s low gun violence rate.

Nevada falls at number 48 on the economic well-being of their children with 19% of them living in poverty.