Browsing the "environmental justice" Tag

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The UN has declared a universal human right to a healthy, sustainable environment – here’s where resolutions like this can lead

Climate change is already affecting much of the world’s population, with startlingly high temperatures from the Arctic to Australia. Air pollution from wildfires, vehicles and industries threatens human health. Bees and pollinators are dying in unprecedented numbers that may force changes in crop production and food availability. Joel E. Correia, University of Florida The Conversation […]

August 10th

California’s experiment shows the effect of carbon pricing on environmental justice

Even before presidential candidate Joe Biden introduced his “Plan to Secure Environmental Justice and Equitable Opportunity in a Clean Energy Future,” growing numbers of Americans began seeing climate policy and environmental justice as intertwined issues. The environmental justice movement has focused overdue national attention on the disproportionate exposure to unhealthy pollution long faced by marginalized […]

August 1st

SCOTUS reversed almost 200 years of US law and tradition upholding tribal sovereignty this year

Over the past 50 years, Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court have increasingly diverged in how they view the laws that relate to Indian tribes. Congress has passed significant legislation that expands tribal governments’ sovereignty and control over their land, while the Supreme Court has ignored and reversed long-standing principles of federal Indian law that […]

July 23rd

Biden’s new environmental justice office addresses the deadly impact of climate chaos on people of color

The Biden administration has created an Office of Environmental Justice in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), part of an effort to tackle the health impacts of pollution and climate change disproportionately faced by communities of color. By Jessica Kutz The 19th Dr. Sharunda Buchanan, who has over 30 years of experience working […]

July 17th

CA native Winnemem Wintu and partners return winter-run chinook salmon eggs to McCloud River above Shasta dam

Drought Action Moves Endangered Salmon Back Into Their Historical Habitat For First Time Since Construction Of Shasta Dam The Winnemem Wintu Tribe, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) on Monday celebrated the return of endangered winter-run Chinook […]

July 14th

Indigenous tribes and the environment pay the price for California’s new reservoirs

In May, California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom asked the state’s top water agency to accelerate the approvals process for the proposed Sites Reservoir, a $4 billion project built on the west side of the Sacramento Valley that would pull water from the Sacramento and Trinity rivers. Newsom touted the project as a drought solution and a way to manage […]

July 11th

Digital activists are using Wikipedia to change the narrative around women and climate work

In 2020, a viral photo taken at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, pointed to the enduring invisibility of women of color in the climate movement. Vanessa Nakate, a Black Ugandan climate activist, had posed for a photo with other notable climate activists, all White women, only to be cropped out of the final […]

July 9th

The link between the collapse of the Bay Delta ecosystem and CA’s racist past

Press release from the coalition of Winnemem Wintu Tribe, Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Save California Salmon, Little Manila Rising, and Restore the Delta By Dan Bacher Last week, a coalition of California Tribes and Delta-based environmental justice organizations announced the filing of a “Petition for Rulemaking Review.” The coalition, represented by the Environmental […]

June 2nd

Stories about economic degrowth help fight climate change — and yield a host of other benefits

There is something unprecedented and important in the recent Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): degrowth. Two of the IPCC’s working groups — those focused on climate change impacts and on mitigation — use the economic term to discuss policies that are key to reducing the impacts of climate change. […]

May 9th

Roe v Wade on the line: If you REALLY care about the unborn, you need to fight climate change!

Pregnant people are at ‘greater risk’ in states hit hard by wildfire smoke, air pollution, a new report shows The American Lung Association’s annual State of the Air report shows wildfires and heat are making air quality worse for those living in the West. By Jessica Kurtz The 19th In 2020, fast-moving wildfires swept through […]

May 3rd

Fracking Is Injustice: The high human and climate toll of fracking and LNG expansion

A major new report authored by the Physicians for Social Responsibility and Concerned Health Professionals of New York reveals that recent national and global efforts to increase oil and gas production and liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports “have dire impacts on public health and the climate.” By Dan Bacher Authored by doctors and scientists, the report provides a critical accounting of […]

April 30th