environmental justice

85 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

Black residents’ lawsuit against Louisiana parish may proceed, judge rules

Community organizations allege that St. James Parish has discriminated against Black residents by allowing chemical facilities in majority Black areas, dubbed “Cancer Alley”

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5 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

Important climate stories you may have overlooked this year

Trump’s dismantling of bedrock environmental protections is just one facet of the administration’s wide-ranging attacks on the planet

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6 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

The Yukon River is “a living being”: The fight to protect the longest salmon run in the world

A movement in Canada for the Yukon River to be granted legal personhood is reaching across the U.S. border

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9 Min
By: Alyssa Choiniere

‘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

Native and antinuclear activists demand shutdown of the last uranium mill in the U.S.

The Southwest is quickly becoming the center of the nationwide push to increase the nuclear fuel supply chain, once again relegating Indigenous communities to sacrifice zones

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15 Min
By: Lorena Bally

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

Men inside San Quentin had ‘no expectation of survival’ during California tsunami scare

The state’s failure to include incarcerated people in emergency plans shines light on the life-threatening dangers facing people in custody as climate change worsens

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6 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

Queer and trans organizers in Newark link environmental injustice, redlining, and the racism at the root of it all

While locals could not stop the construction of a fourth fossil fuel power-plant facility in the Ironbound neighborhood, their efforts illustrate their broader fight for a better world

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8 Min
By: Lana Leonard

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