fossil fuel industry

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After a decade of government opposition, a groundbreaking, youth-led climate suit comes to a close

In a Q&A with Prism, Juliana v. United States plaintiff and college student Sahara Valentine discusses the lawsuit they joined at age 10, and why various administrations fought to silence it

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6 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

In North Carolina, Trump administration’s anti-climate deregulation agenda comes to a head

The federal agency in charge of pipeline permitting and approvals is fast-tracking the expansion of the Southeast Supply Enhancement Project, a pipeline sure to cause cataclysmic environmental harm

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6 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

Louisiana organizers fight against fossil fuel injustice

In southwestern Louisiana, organizers fight petrochemical projects amid a legacy of exploitation

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12 Min
By: Xander Peters

Why are public agencies supporting industry at the expense of community health?

When a massive pipeline ruptured in the steep slopes of Appalachia earlier this year, regulators in charge of environmental and community safety looked the other way. They shared no details with the residents living near the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) who watched sediment pollute delicate ecosystems and municipalities’ water sources.

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4 Min
By: Denali Sai Nalamalapu

Federal agency approves Tennessee pipeline through communities  of color, raising costs and environmental concerns

Yolonda Spinks knows Memphis, Tennessee, like the back of her hand. She was born and raised in the Riverside neighborhood of South Memphis and attended the historically Black college LeMoyne-Owen, which was just 3 miles from her childhood home. Spinks is committed to being what she calls “a good ancestor.

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10 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

DOJ acknowledges illegal trespass on tribal land but stops short of demanding pipeline shutdown

A legal brief by the Department of Justice (DOJ) agreed that a Canadian pipeline company is trespassing on a tribal reservation but stopped short of asserting that the government can take meaningful action to shut down the fossil fuel infrastructure. The amicus brief, filed April 10 in the 7th Circuit

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3 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

Who will stop the ‘ticking time bomb’ across Native lands?

It started with a flood. A great turtle rose out of the untamable waters. Thus, in Ojibwe tradition, the world was born. The Great Lakes of Michigan are the most sacred of places for Ojibwe peoples; five bodies of interconnected freshwater lakes are the origin of all life and the

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8 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

How the media facilitates climate criminality

A climate protester named Mama Julz spent February 1 locked to a grounded helicopter, the kind usually used to transport construction workers to remote portions of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, the rushed and ecologically destructive pet project of West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin. After a few hours, police arrested Mama

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15 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

Why does ‘the first climate president’ fear a group of kids pushing for climate justice?

President Biden and preceding administrations have stopped Juliana v. United States of America from going to court because the evidence in the climate case could upend our reliance on oil and gas

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5 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

Systems of oppression beget systems of oppression

By Alexis Young This piece originally appeared in People over Plastic. In Calcasieu Parish, a little more than three hours away from New Orleans by car, sits the city of Sulphur, Louisiana. The more than 85-mile stretch of oil and gas and petrochemical plants along the Mississippi River includes the

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3 Min
By: People over Plastic

‘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

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