environmental justice
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EPA puts off long-promised coal ash protections
(This post originally appeared at Facing South.) Communities imperiled by poorly managed coal ash won’t be getting help from the federal government any time soon. The Obama administration announced last week that it would not issue long-awaited federal regulations this year after all. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson shared the news in a March […]
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California's cap-and-trade plan is better for environmental justice than the alternatives
Gov. Jerry Brown will move forward with Assembly Bill 32, under which California seeks dramatic steps to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
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California’s cap-and-trade plan is better for environmental justice than the alternatives
Gov. Jerry Brown will move forward with Assembly Bill 32, under which California seeks dramatic steps to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Does pollution lock people into a cycle of poverty?
The EPA is funding grants to study environmental injustice and the effects of poverty and environment on health.
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Further adventures in the territories of hope
After the Macondo well exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, it was easy enough (on your choice of screen) to see a flaming oil platform, the very sea itself set afire with huge plumes of black smoke rising, and the dark smear of what would become five million barrels of oil beginning to soak birds and beaches. Infinitely harder to see and less dramatic was the vast counterforce soon at work: the mobilizing of tens of thousands of volunteers.
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Evangelicals are greener than you think
Young evangelicals are increasingly inclined to care about climate change. Don't let the far right set up a false culture war.
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EPA targets polluters who do their business on poor communities
Whether it's coal ash or hazardous waste or just bad air, low-income neighborhoods are more likely to be dumped on.
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BP's Gulf oil waste being dumped on communities of color
We now know where the oil removed from the Gulf waters went. And a disproportionate amount is being dumped in communities of color.
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Accept more poison to get less carbon? Kill this crazy idea NOW
With an increase in industry’s toxic pollutants, will this be the fate of our water sources? In exchange for cutting their carbon emissions, power plants want to undermine the EPA and get permission to increase other kinds of dangerous pollution. They even want the go-ahead to dump more sulfur and deadly mercury into our air […]
