• Sustainability

6 Former EPA Administrators Call For Agency “Re-Set;” As EJ Orgs Sue Chicago For Environmental Racism

• conservation
• environment
• Environmental Justice
• environmental racism
• EPA
• pollution

This week, six former Administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it is time to conduct a sweeping overhaul of the agency.  They called for a “reset” to move the “EPA in a new, forward-looking direction to address the environmental challenges we face today and those that lie ahead.

Why This Matters:  The “formers” who come from both political parties are right.  Our 50-year-old system of pollution protection laws, regulations, and agencies is outdated and ineffective to fight the pollution and climate challenges we face today and going forward.

• People

Dangerous Pollution in Cancer Alley Leads to Higher COVID Mortality

• Cancer Alley
• coronavirus
• COVID-19
• Environmental Justice
• environmental racism

Between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, a trail of 150 petroleum factories makes up one of the most rampant petrochemical industries in the nation for the past century. It’s also led to some of the nation’s most polluted air and water giving the region the ominous nickname of “Cancer Alley” due to the concentrations of […]

• People

Climate Change Tied to Pregnancy Complications–Black Mothers Especially Affected

• air pollution
• climate change
• Environmental Justice
• environmental racism
• racial justice

Yesterday a startling study was published which analyzed 32 million U.S. births to reveal that pregnant women who are exposed to air pollution, high temperatures and ozone are more likely to have premature, underweight or stillborn babies. What’s worse is that Black mothers are at the highest risk of these pregnancy complications. As the New […]

• Health

Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Visualized​

• Cancer Alley
• Chemicals
• Environmental Justice
• environmental racism
• industry
• Louisiana

Between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, a trail of 150 petroleum factories creates a glaring backdrop of smokestacks behind the Mississippi River and a perpetual fog along the banks. Courtesy of its flat ground, an abundance of carbon-rich decay, and the Mississippi’s inflowing fresh water, Louisiana has been home to one of the most rampant […]

• People

Who gets be called an Environmentalist?

• Environmental Justice
• environmental racism
• representation

When you hear the term “environmentalist” what type of person do you automatically picture? For many Americans, the image that’s conjured is one of a well-educated, middle-class white person, according to a new study recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Not only do minority groups underestimate their own concern for the […]

• Water

Flint water crisis: what’s next?

• Environmental Justice
• environmental racism
• Flint
• Flint Water Crisis
• Michigan

“Fixing” Flint is going to have to be part of a broader strategy to provide economic relief to other cities like it. In the same way that we must help former coal towns, our nation owes the people of industrial towns a helping hand for all that they’ve given our country.