July 12, 2019
Stories tagged "Environmental Justice"
June 4, 2019
Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Visualized
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...May 17, 2019
Environmental Justice Is Essential to Climate Justice, and Now it Has A Caucus
Earlier this week, I (Monica) attended the Sunrise Movement rally in DC, which most people think of as a movement of young people demanding immediate and drastic action on climate change. But listening to the leaders of the movement, who are much more diverse than...April 23, 2019
Climate Change Worsening Global Inequality
A new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has suggested that climate change has worsened global inequality and has caused the most economic harm to nations who have done the least to contribute to climate change....Dem Senators Announce Senate’s First-Ever Environmental Justice Caucus
Yesterday, on Earth Day, U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Tom Carper (D-DE) announced the creation of the Senate’s first-ever Environmental Justice Caucus which will help enhance the Congressional response to climate justice issues in...March 13, 2019
New study reveals white Americans cause air pollution, minorities suffer the consequences
The burden of air pollution is not evenly shared, according to the American Lung Association, poorer people and some racial and ethnic groups are among those who often face higher exposure to pollutants and who may experience greater responses to such pollution. Now a...March 1, 2019
Exclusive interview with Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-13)
ODP: You’ve represented the East Bay Area cities of Oakland and Berkeley for over 20 years and have been a steadfast voice on Capitol Hill about the issue of environmental justice. Statistics show that your constituents in West Oakland (a predominantly black and...Who gets be called an Environmentalist?
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...February 22, 2019
Interview of the week: Kendra Pierre-Louis, climate reporter for the New York Times
Kendra Pierre-Louis is a reporter on the New York Times climate team. Before joining The Times in December 2017, she was a staff reporter with Popular Science, where she covered science and the environment. And if you don’t follow her on Twitter for her climate...February 15, 2019