“The global food system is driving environmental injustice and increasing greenhouse gas emissions. The way we are using land is accelerating the climate crisis. The…
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Category: JUSTICE
“Why Investing in Libraries Is a Climate Justice Issue”
“When a heat wave hit the Pacific Northwest in late June, many cities and residents found themselves facing shockingly high — and lethal — temperatures:…
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SCORECARD: Big Companies & Environmental Racism
“ExxonMobil isn’t exactly known for being an environmental justice champion. But according to a scorecard published last week, the oil major is dead last among…
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Community Activism: Using Land-Use Law to Fight Against Dirty Energy
On July 27, the Whatcom County Council became the first local government in the U.S. to amend its land-use law to prohibit new refineries, fossil…
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“More Nuclear Is No Solution To Climate Crisis”
The United States ushered in the atomic age in 1945 by dropping a uranium bomb on Hiroshima and a plutonium bomb on Nagasaki. We now…
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Cancer Alley Activists Successfully Pushing Back Against Plastics Goliath
This is a big win for grassroots communities in Louisiana. “The US government has placed further delays on a proposed multibillion dollar plastics plant in…
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