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![Activist group Earth Strike NYC announced a radical frontline coalition gathering in Sunset Park to support UPROSE in its campaign for local community-led climate justice]()
![Activist group Earth Strike NYC announced a radical frontline coalition gathering in Sunset Park to support UPROSE in its campaign for local community-led climate justice]()
‘Put up or shut up’: New York forges ahead with statewide environmental justice measures
The Empire State announced a slate of grants totaling more than $10.6 million to help underserved residents access affordable solar energy.
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![Philly Thrive Protest]()
![Philly Thrive Protest]()
Philadelphia’s oil refinery is dead, but the fight for accountability continues
Local residents are now laser-focused on making sure they are not shut out of plans to remediate and redevelop the property.
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![A sphere covered in city buildings that looks like the novel coronavirus.]()
![A sphere covered in city buildings that looks like the novel coronavirus.]()
Does city living spread coronavirus? It’s complicated.
"We have to make a distinction between density and overcrowding."
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![A split screen of a police officer from behind and a black man's hand holding an asthma inhaler]()
![A split screen of a police officer from behind and a black man's hand holding an asthma inhaler]()
What does pollution have to do with police violence?
"There’s nothing inherent or genetic about why communities of color are dying at higher rates."
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![Formosa Plastics Slave Cemeteries]()
![Formosa Plastics Slave Cemeteries]()
This plastics company is trying to stop Black residents from visiting a slave burial site on Juneteenth
A group of Black residents from St. James Parish, Louisiana, got the green light to hold an hour-long Juneteenth prayer on a burial plot, owned by plastics company Formosa.
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![photo of Seattle autonomous CHOP zone picnic with black lives matter sign]()
![photo of Seattle autonomous CHOP zone picnic with black lives matter sign]()
Seattle’s ‘autonomous zone’ belongs to a grand tradition of utopian experiments
2020 is a disaster. Some people see a chance to scrap everything and start over.
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![photo of protester in mask that reads I cant breathe]()
![photo of protester in mask that reads I cant breathe]()
Black environmentalists are organizing to save the planet from injustice
The words ‘I can’t breathe’ have added meaning for polluted black communities.
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![#ShutDownAcademia Graphic]()
![#ShutDownAcademia Graphic]()
Earth scientists #ShutDownSTEM — and reckon with racism in their departments
Nationwide, only 3 percent of earth and environmental scientists are black.
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![Environmental justice protest illustration]()
![Environmental justice protest illustration]()
If you care about the planet, you must dismantle white supremacy
It’s time for strong commitments to racial justice from every corner of the climate movement.
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![Rep. Raul Ruiz]()
![Rep. Raul Ruiz]()
A bill in Congress could get to the bottom of how coronavirus links air pollution and racism
The Environmental Justice COVID-19 Act would allocate an additional $50 million to EPA grant programs.
