Environmental Justice

"As Waters Rise, a Community Must Decide: Do We Stay or Go?"

"Faced with more frequent flooding and worse to come, the Philadelphia environmental justice community of Eastwick is grappling with difficult questions about its future: Will levees and flood walls protect them, or should residents abandon their homes and move to higher ground?"

Source: YaleE360, 09/29/2023

"Industrial Air Pollution Battle Set to Move Beyond Smokestacks"

"Advocates and communities pushing for increased air pollution monitoring at industrial facilities are stretching the limits of long-standing emission control requirements that have largely stopped at smokestacks."

Source: Bloomberg Environment, 09/28/2023

"Houston OKs $5M To Relocate Residents Near Polluted Union Pacific Yard

"Houston officials on Wednesday approved $5 million for a fund to help relocate residents from neighborhoods located near a rail yard polluted by a cancer-linked wood preservative that has been blamed for an increase in cancer cases."

Source: AP, 09/28/2023

Report Clears Alberta Officials After Oilsands Leak Went Unreported For 9 Months

"A review commissioned by the board of directors at the Alberta Energy Regulator says there are no concerns with the way the organization handled seepage and a subsequent spill at Imperial Oil’s Kearl oilsands mine in northern Alberta."

Source: The Narwhal, 09/28/2023

WA Prisoners Struggle With Wildfire Smoke As Ventilation Upgrades Go Unfunded

"When the wildfire smoke arrives, Harry Whitman has nowhere to go. “When there’s smoke or there’s a fire, they lock you in,” Whitman said. Whitman, president of the advocacy group Black Prisoners’ Caucus, is incarcerated at Airway Heights Corrections Center."

Source: Washington State Standard, 09/27/2023

"The Human Limit: The Inequality Of Heat"

"After the third day without power, the residents of Kasia Bagan had had enough. Their city of Kolkata was in the midst of a blistering heat wave, with temperatures rising to 105 degrees, making life in the narrow lanes and in their tiny one-room homes nearly unbearable."

Source: Washington Post, 09/26/2023

"‘False Promise’: DOE’s Carbon Removal Plans Rankle Community Advocates"

"The Biden administration has championed carbon removal projects as better neighbors than the pollution-spewing industries of the past. But the Department of Energy’s first two candidates for its $3.5 billion direct air capture program have conducted an opaque early outreach process in the disadvantaged Louisiana and Texas communities where the projects would be built."

Source: E&E News, 09/26/2023

Biden Tells Pacific Islands Leaders That He Will Act On Climate

"President Joe Biden on Monday told leaders from the 18-member Pacific Islands Forum that he has heard their warnings about the impact of climate change on their region and that his administration is committed to helping them meet the challenge."

Source: AP, 09/26/2023

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