Environmental Justice

"‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Opens Across US (Finally!)"

"Spellbinding, heartbreaking and exhaustingly researched, director Martin Scorsese’s long-gestating epic look into the mass murders of the Osage over oil rights in the 1920s opens Oct. 20 in wide release across the United States."

Source: ICT, 10/20/2023

"In Florida, Gen Z Activists Step Into the Fight Against Sugarcane Burning"

"Every year, farmers in South Florida set fire to more than 400,000 acres of sugarcane fields pre-harvest, creating a “black snow” of ash and soot that falls on the low-income communities nearby."

Source: Youthcast Media Group, 10/20/2023

Western States Opposed Tribes’ Access to the Colorado River 70 Years Ago

"Records unearthed by a University of Virginia professor shed new light on states’ vocal opposition in the 1950s to tribes claiming their share of the river. Today, many are still fighting to secure water."

Source: ProPublica/HCN, 10/19/2023

"DOJ Touts Broad Range of Environmental Justice Courtroom Wins"

"The Justice Department’s new environmental justice team spent its first year busily bringing cases, forging settlements, and building a national infrastructure of environmental justice-focused prosecutors, according to the group’s first-ever annual report."

Source: Bloomberg Environment, 10/18/2023

Georgia Slave Descendants Sue Over Zoning Threatenening Island Homes

"Black residents of a tiny island enclave founded by their enslaved ancestors off the Georgia coast have filed suit seeking to halt a new zoning law that they say will raise taxes and force them to sell their homes in one of the South’s last surviving Gullah-Geechee communities."

Source: AP, 10/17/2023

Texas Quietly Sets Weak Cancer Risk Standard For Industrial Air Pollution

"The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has quietly proposed maintaining a target cancer-risk level for air pollution permits that scientists and public health officials consider inadequate to protect public health, especially for communities like those east of Houston that are exposed simultaneously to many sources of industrial emissions."

Source: Inside Climate News, 10/17/2023

"No Shade, No Water, And Record Heat: More Migrants Die In U.S. Desert"

"Veteran firefighter Daniel Medrano got out of his truck somewhere in the barren outskirts of Sunland Park, New Mexico, where a vast expanse of yellow sand is dotted by stubby bushes. Under one, he found a body."

Source: Reuters, 10/16/2023

Giant Open-Pit Mine Near Two National Parks Dealt A Blow By Biden DOI

"A road critical to operating a proposed open-pit mine in a remote part of Alaska hit a new hurdle Friday when the Biden administration issued a finding that the road could threaten Alaska Native communities and their lifestyle more than previously estimated."

Source: Washington Post, 10/16/2023

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