- What Trump’s second administration could mean for environmental justice https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/12/04/trump-epa-biden-environmental-justice-pollution/ 3 comments climate
- Environmental justice? Not if Project 2025 has a say. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/environmental-justice-grants-project-2025-trump-climate-change-disaster/ 2 comments climate
- Turning Brownfields to Blooming Meadows. Toxicologist Danielle Stevenson cleans up carbon-based pollutants & heavy metals from contaminated sites using fungi & plants. She also trains environmental justice & tribal communities in using these methods, so they can remediate toxic sites on their own. https://e360.yale.edu/features/danielle-stevenson-interview 3 comments upliftingnews
- White House announces new steps toward launching its climate corps for young people The American Climate Corps will work across seven federal agencies, with hopes to place its first cohort of young Americans into environmental justice programs next summer. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/white-house-new-steps-american-climate-corps-young-jobs-rcna130254 45 comments politics
- Stanford’s New School of Sustainability Is a Gift to Fossil Fuel Companies | The university seems set to replicate the mistakes of past climate research: soliciting oil and gas funding, while paying lip service to environmental justice. https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/stanford-sustainability-school/ 8 comments climate
- How climate change and environmental justice are inextricably linked https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/06/14/climate-justice-green-new-deal/ 4 comments environment
- What’s in Biden’s $5.8 trillion budget proposal? — Funding for green jobs, climate research, and environmental justice. https://grist.org/politics/whats-in-bidens-5-8-trillion-budget-proposal/ 14 comments politics
- Apple’s Impact Accelerator unlocks new opportunities for US businesses - Launched as part of Apple’s Racial Equity and Justice Initiative, the Impact Accelerator is designed to support equity and opportunity in the environmental sector for Black-, Hispanic/Latinx-, and Indigenous-owned businesses https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/03/apples-impact-accelerator-unlocks-new-opportunities-for-us-businesses/ 13 comments apple
- Billions in environmental justice funds hang in the balance https://apnews.com/article/climate-joe-biden-science-environment-joe-manchin-854bf9112bd0d4ab2d6518221304c60e 3 comments nottheonion
- Here’s how Biden is spending his first big environmental justice investment - The EPA has detailed how it will spend $50 million authorized by the American Rescue Plan. https://grist.org/politics/biden-environmental-justice-epa-spending-american-rescue-plan/?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=137274382&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-87bFZpSq6C7_Fb_JOAdtFY8RgdpxXwTrJpd1ERoijrEZ7ToSwWDXni5AarMO3wA4mIPscdWly7VJJg-x0yLJAEEUuxWw&utm_content=137274382&utm_source=hs_email 4 comments politics
- White House environmental justice advisers express opposition to nuclear, carbon capture projects https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/553927-white-house-environmental-justice-advisors-expresses-opposition-to 12 comments politics
- White House environmental justice advisers express opposition to nuclear, carbon capture projects https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/553927-white-house-environmental-justice-advisors-expresses-opposition-to 9 comments technology
- New EPA Administrator Michael Regan Champions Environmental Justice https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/03/nations-first-black-epa-administrator-champions-environmental-justice/ 5 comments politics
- There’s a clear fix to helping Black communities fight pollution - Industrial pollution has sickened and poisoned Black communities for decades. Environmental justice experts have a solution to stop this. https://www.vox.com/22299782/black-americans-environmental-justice-pollution 10 comments politics
- Activists See Biden’s Day One Focus on Environmental Justice as a Critical Campaign Promise Kept https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24012021/activists-see-bidens-day-one-focus-on-environmental-justice-as-a-critical-campaign-promise-kept/?utm_campaign=hot%20news&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=108000642&_hsenc=p2anqtz-8mo-tylo4voocr6bibvvy021k82iotgtu50eidpjryc5hkc7rciv7hnaymrzllnzrutimjyybk-10isvrp2tl7b5xzkq&utm_content=108000642&utm_source=hs_email 4 comments politics
- "Environmental destruction undercuts the ability of future generations to secure much of what makes life meaningful, and we have a great deal at stake in their flourishing" -Tom Sinclair (Oxford) on climate justice. https://www.newstatesman.com/international/2020/12/why-should-we-care-if-humans-die-out 194 comments philosophy
- Senate 2020: The Loeffler-Warnock Senate Runoff in Georgia Offers Extreme Contrasts on Climate | Loeffler, the GOP incumbent, supports Trump’s fossil fuel agenda, while Warnock, a pastor, views climate change as a critical environmental justice concern. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13112020/georgia-senate-race-kelly-loeffler-raphael-warnock?utm_campaign=hot%20news&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=100094447&_hsenc=p2anqtz--gby4kjdxhut8gycttq9xkjyhzkayg0lk4v6ndwdyfydrwu49qdexf7zo8ypgvq8viklnmcbgefakawbvfbxpcodztaw&utm_content=100094447&utm_source=hs_email 4 comments politics
- Young Voters, Motivated by Climate Change and Environmental Justice, Helped Propel Biden’s Campaign https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06112020/young-voters-climate-change-environmental-justice-joe-biden 38 comments politics
- The BREATHE Act would defund police — and fund environmental justice https://grist.org/justice/the-breathe-act-would-defund-police-and-fund-environmental-justice/?utm_campaign=hot%20news&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=91137445&_hsenc=p2anqtz-9ujfnxnqmeqrm3xdkq5lh5-euod-i_76gnsitf7org4ibo9dkzq0mnieb1fd7r2rlmy7t_3quuzgwhx4p8eldnrp5irg&utm_content=91137445&utm_source=hs_email 8 comments politics
- In 'Targeted Strike' Against Environmental and Racial Justice, Trump EPA Curbs State Power to Reject Fossil Fuel Projects https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/02/targeted-strike-against-environmental-and-racial-justice-trump-epa-curbs-state-power 5 comments politics
- Warren and Booker lead candidates at environmental justice forum. National Black Caucus of State Legislators hosts event. Booker defends support for nuclear power. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/09/warren-booker-environmental-justice-forum-south-carolina 4 comments politics
- Warren, Booker & Steyer to Take Part in First-Ever Presidential Forum on Environmental Justice https://www.democracynow.org/2019/11/8/mustafa_ali_environmental_justice_presidential_forum 5 comments politics
- Warren environmental justice plan focuses third of climate investment on disenfranchised communities https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/465021-warren-environmental-justice-plan-focuses-third-of-climate 5 comments politics
- Warren Unveils ‘Environmental Justice’ Plan for Poor Communities https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-09/warren-unveils-environmental-justice-plan-for-poor-communities 24 comments politics
- California’s attorney general puts polluters on notice with new environmental justice unit https://thinkprogress.org/california-attorney-general-puts-polluters-on-notice-21f22ee2da89/ 3 comments politics
- Top UN court orders Nicaragua to compensate Costa Rica for environmental damage, the ruling is the International Court of Justice (ICJ) court's first foray into assessing costs for environmental damage. http://www.dw.com/en/top-un-court-orders-nicaragua-to-compensate-costa-rica-for-environmental-damage/a-42426974 3 comments worldnews
- Democrats Accuse This Trump Nominee Of Plagiarizing Her Answers To Congress About Climate Change, Environmental Justice, And More https://www.buzzfeed.com/zahrahirji/democrats-accuse-trump-nominee-of-plagiarism?utm_term=.umommyb5q#.ilzawxjmo 5 comments politics
- E.P.A. Threatens to Stop Funding Justice Dept. Environmental Work https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/us/politics/scott-pruitt-epa-justice-department-funding.html 4 comments politics
- EPA's environmental justice head resigned after 24 years. He wants to explain why. http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/03/epa-environmental-justice-head-resigns-move-backwards-made-no-sense?%3F 3 comments politics
- Chief Environmental Justice Official at EPA Resigns, With Plea to Pruitt to Protect Vulnerable Communities https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09032017/epa-environmental-justice-mustafa-ali-flint-water-crisis-dakota-access-pipeline-trump-scott-pruitt 8 comments politics
- Flint, A Poster Child for Environmental Racism - Dr. Robert Bullard, the “father of environmental justice”, says that the lead water disaster in Flint, Michigan is just the latest example in a long history of environmental injustice in the United States http://www.loe.org/shows/shows.html?programid=16-p13-00033#feature1 23 comments politics
- Unprecedented federal court ruling elevates environmental justice over demands of industry | the court sided with the DOE and environmental groups that believe the social costs of carbon emissions can, and should, be assessed on an economic scale. http://fusion.net/story/335110/federal-court-elevates-social-cost-of-carbon-over-industry-demands/ 2 comments politics
- The Environmental Justice Movement Needs Bernie Sanders to Win http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shoshanna-howard/the-environmental-justice_b_9348916.html 19 comments politics
- "The U.S. Justice Department has sued Volkswagen for up to $48 billion for allegedly violating environmental laws - a reminder of the carmaker's problems nearly four months after its emissions scandal broke." http://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-usa-iduskbn0ui1qp20160105 6 comments worldnews
- The U.S. Justice Department has sued Volkswagen for up to $90 billion for allegedly violating environmental laws - five times regulators' initial estimate and a reminder of the carmaker's problems nearly four months after its emissions scandal broke. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-usa-iduskbn0ui1qp20160105?feedtype=rss&feedname=topnews 279 comments worldnews
- Here’s the Anti-EPA Bill to End All Anti-EPA Bills. Would kill off all EPA grant programs, end all environmental justice programs and fully eliminate federal funding for 13 other programs, and bar the agency from regulating ghgs from the nation’s power plants and vehicles http://www.bna.com/heres-antiepa-bill-b17179926103/ 23 comments politics
- The Teamsters of New York Are Speaking Out About Climate Change. By promoting environmental justice, we're fighting for working families. That is why you will see Teamsters speaking out in the lead-up to the climate summit. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-miranda-/the-teamsters-of-new-york_b_5804918.html?1410452607 13 comments politics
- Justices Back Rule Limiting Coal Pollution - The 6-to-2 ruling bolsters the centerpiece of President Obama’s environmental agenda: a series of new regulations aimed at cutting pollution from coal-fired power plants. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/04/30/us/politics/supreme-court-backs-epa-coal-pollution-rules.html?_r=0&referrer= 12 comments politics
- Advocacy group reveals 20 worst corporations based on environmental, human rights, social justice, and community involvement. Guess what? They're all major political contributors. http://www.betterworldshopper.org/worst.html 3 comments politics
- "Right now we don’t have a criminal-justice system; we have a massive incarceration industry that has to be fed with human bodies." (Interview with Van Jones on Jobs, Jails and Environmental Justice) http://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/387/bridging_the_green_divide?page=1 48 comments reddit.com