environmental harm

22 posts

Red flags in the air: Louisiana communities take on pollution

Federal and state laws are making it more challenging for communities to protect themselves against life-threatening toxins

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7 Min
By: Yasmin Garaad

This Brooklyn neighborhood is building a community-led climate future and fighting to keep it

Sunset Park has carried a heavy pollution burden for its predominantly working-class Asian and Latino residents. Now the neighborhood is emerging as a model for environmental justice

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10 Min
By: Gaea Cabico

Louisiana is ground zero for an emerging horror: geological landfills

Carbon capture and sequestration, the technology of capturing carbon and storing it underground forever, is unproven and dangerous. Louisiana and other Gulf Coast states may soon house almost 40% of the country’s sequestered carbon dioxide

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9 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

The Superfund program promises to clean up polluted lands. Does it?

Over 400,000 Indigenous peoples live within three miles of a heavily contaminated site, including 19 superfund sites on tribal lands

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12 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

‘River of Grass’ isn’t your typical environmental documentary

The “liquid heart” of Florida is the Everglades, says filmmaker Sasha Wortzel, and colonial violence is killing it

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4 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

Hawai‘i residents challenge U.S. military over leases on sacred lands

The coalition of Native Hawaiians and local residents organizing against the government’s operations has only grown since 2021, when a military-owned bunker spilled jet fuel into an aquifer, poisoning thousands of families

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10 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

Trump’s EPA argues that regulating greenhouse gas emissions is unnecessary

The Endangerment Finding, the legal grounding for managing climate change-causing emissions, is the latest environmental regulation on the chopping block

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5 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

Why is the Bad River Band suing the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources?

The legal challenge is yet another effort by the tribe to prevent the Canadian-owned corporation Enbridge from operating near the Bad River Reservation

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6 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

FIU’s ICE collaboration undermines university’s mission, faculty say

Faculty union demands answers after Prism and other news outlets reported that Florida International University supplied equipment to “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center

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7 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

St. Louis residents fight expansion of Israeli minerals company tied to Gaza genocide

ICL Group, whose North American headquarters are in St. Louis, is tied to the manufacturing of white phosphorus, which the Israeli military has reportedly used against Palestinians. Now, the company wants to expand into a historically Black neighborhood

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6 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

Colonialism and extractivism catch up with the North Atlantic’s greatest estuary

The real estate boom along the Chesapeake Bay’s shoreline is just the latest form of extraction to hit the region

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11 Min
By: Peter Gelderloos

‘History is echoing’: Miccosukee Tribe challenges secrecy and environmental harm at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

The tribe, whose territory is adjacent to the immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades, joined a lawsuit against the state and federal governments on July 14

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4 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

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