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Presidents Clinton, Biden issued orders aiming to correct environmental injustice. On Monday, President Trump issued orders revoking those efforts.
Environmental justice is "the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, ...
"I Can't Breathe" were George Floyd's dying words under a White police officer's knee. They eerily echo what Black, Latino, Native American and other non-White environmental justice activists have ...
U nder the Biden administration, the environmental justice movement had a historic platform to bring clean water and air to communities that have suffered from pollution. It was a boon to the ...
He learned that Sacramento opted to create an environmental justice advisory committee, a process that he knew would also reinforce the requirements of SB 1000. But first Benavides set out to conduct ...
Environmental justice featured more prominently in the 2020 election than it did in any other presidential election in U.S. history. Now that Democratic nominee Joe Biden — who schooled his ...
Environmental justice: New EPA report asserts that climate change discriminates. Assessing the cumulative impacts of projects is something environmental activists have long called for.
Some of Trump’s allies, including some members of Congress, have targeted environmental justice programs for elimination. More than a dozen Republicans asked the House Appropriations Committee ...
Environmental justice is having a moment. The term, which encompasses the many ways by which low-income people and communities of color suffer an unequal burden from pollution, contamination, and ...
Nearly 170 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights (OEJECR) were placed on paid administrative leave on Thursday, according to ...
Environmental-justice groups and two of their strongest allies in Congress—Representatives Raúl Grijalva, the chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, and McEachin—reject the notion ...
Environmental Justice? Not if Project 2025 Has a Say. On the chopping block: Biden-era programs to ensure that clean energy, air, water, and soil are available to the people who need it the most ...