environmental justice

85 posts

Environmental racism seeps through Mississippi’s Yazoo Pumps

The potential construction of a pumping system along the banks of the Yazoo Backwater Area in Mississippi signals a larger fight between political power and environmental justice

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11 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

Laws are trying to move beyond an environmental justice checklist

Christian Poulsen grew up along Seattle’s only river, which is rich with vibrant gathering places like locally renowned restaurants and good schools. It’s home, where he is now raising two young children.  His community in South Park prides itself on being one of the city’s most culturally

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5 Min
By: Ashli Blow

Green New Deal Network leads nationwide For the People Tour in a push for climate justice

At the heart of a Green New Deal is the goal to prioritize communities most affected by inequality, climate disasters, and pollution

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5 Min
By: Kat Grimmett

Environmental pollution lawsuit may pump the breaks on Cop City construction

Activists are accusing the city of Atlanta of environmental racism in its construction of “Cop City”

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3 Min
By: Jocelyn James

Cancer-wary locals resist Chevron’s fuel made from discarded plastic

Chevron intends to produce “climate-friendly” fuel in a Mississippi town already riddled with cancer

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5 Min
By: Ash Peterson

In unincorporated communities, climate change worsens inequalities for BIPOC

When continued investment in practices that destroy the environment compounds our rapidly changing climate system, those with the least suffer the most

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7 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

Advocates increasingly rely on the courts to effect climate change. Is it the right approach?

When fighting Big Oil, whether the U.S. judicial system is fit to handle the intricacies of climate science and complexities of climate organizing remains to be seen

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8 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

Loosening wetland protections threatens ecosystems and worsens climate damage

Wetlands are a vital part of the water cycle that also mitigate damage from climate change. As the EPA guts protections, we must fill in the gaps

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10 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

We must imagine the climate futures we want to build

Young people will disproportionately bear the consequences of climate crisis, but we cannot build futures we can’t imagine

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8 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

‘I wasn’t sentenced to be cooked’: Heat desperation in a Texas prison

Politicians in Texas denied air conditioning for prisons in May. Now temperatures of 100 F and higher are killing incarcerated people

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4 Min
By: Kwaneta Harris

The Farm Bill could address climate change and structural racism

The legislation has strayed far from its initial model of labor-minded price floors and supply management to creep into the corners of federal institutions where structural racism thrives

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9 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

Organizers in upstate New York make waves in fight to tackle lead poisoning

Child lead poisoning rates in some New York census tracts are roughly twice as high than those in Flint, Michigan, at the peak of its water crisis

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6 Min
By: Eddie Velazquez

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