Articles by Rachel Ramirez
Rachel Ramirez is an environmental justice fellow at Grist
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What New Jersey’s new environmental justice law will and won’t achieve
New Jersey’s new law will shield poor communities from new sources of pollution. What about existing ones?
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One year later, what has New York’s landmark climate law accomplished?
"Goals are no good unless you meet them."
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![Resident Mirian Medina stands on her property about two weeks after Hurricane Maria swept through the island on October 5, 2017 in San Isidro, Puerto Rico]()
![Resident Mirian Medina stands on her property about two weeks after Hurricane Maria swept through the island on October 5, 2017 in San Isidro, Puerto Rico]()
Trump apparently proposed ‘selling’ Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria
Former Homeland Security Secretary Elaine C. Duke told the New York Times that Trump floated the possibility of "selling" and “divesting” the territory.
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![Smoke billows from one of many chemical plants in the area of Cancer Alley in Baton Rouge, Louisiana]()
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These Louisiana activists are facing ‘terrorizing’ charges for a stunt they pulled 6 months ago
The arrests come just a week after activists won a court battle against the plastics manufacturer targeted by those now facing charges.
