environmental protection agency

17 posts

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

Trump funding cuts hinder Indigenous-led efforts to address legacy pollution on tribal lands

Groups working to heal and restore soil and water systems are now suing the Environmental Protection Agency in an effort to restore grant funds

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6 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

Upcoming EPA case ruling ‘casts a shadow’ over how SCOTUS views future environmental regulations

Cleophus Sharp grew up in Houston in the Black neighborhood of Pleasantville in the 1950s. Neighbors knew one another, and Sharp remembers a closely knit community. But his childhood was marked by something most children won’t relate to: suffocating, toxic air that was inescapable. On some days, you could

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10 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

Jackson, Mississippi, residents now get a voice in negotiations over city’s water crisis

Jackson, Mississippi, residents will now have a formal seat in negotiations that could determine the future of clean water access.  The change comes from a “motion to intervene” in the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) case against the city of Jackson. Filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights, Forward Justice,

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3 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

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

‘They just abandoned us’

The EPA’s civil rights investigation into environmental racism in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley was halted. Frontline communities are wondering why

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3 Min
By: People over Plastic

Sugar harvesting pollution hits Black Florida residents hardest

Permitting laws allow sugar cane burns to blow west toward majority-Black communities, but mechanical harvesting offers a greener solution

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9 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

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

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

As federal protections for wetlands shrink, Miami restores reverence for water

Conservation efforts were stunted in May when the Supreme Court removed water protections for millions of acres of wetlands across the U.S.

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6 Min
By: Kat Grimmett

The Biden administration allocates funding to address the Jackson water crisis

Nearly one year after the disaster hit, organizers say the city still has more work to do to address the water crisis

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4 Min
By: Imani Stephens

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