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us/'The Cost of Plastics Is Lives': House Oversight Hearing Highlights Environmental Justice Burdens of Plastic Production
By Dana Drugmand
on
During a congressional hearing Tuesday, a plastics industry executive echoed a common refrain from the industry: “Plastic saves lives.” However, for many communities of color living in close proxi...
Hand painted posters and murals of sunflowers and skulls remembering community members lost to pollution line a chainlink fence outside the PES Refinery.
In the Shadow of Shuttered Philadelphia Refinery, Neighbors Recall Those Lost to Decades of Pollution
By Sharon Kelly
on
The nation's oldest and largest gasoline refinery was closed following an explosion and fireball which rocked the majority Black neighborhood of South Philadelphia.
The nation's oldest and largest gasoline refinery was closed following an explosion and fireball which rocked the majority Black neighborhood of South Philadelphia.
us/‘Slam Dunk’ Study Finds Trump EPA’s Move Not to Tighten Air Pollution Standards Would Prematurely Kill 140,000 Americans
By Dana Drugmand
on
A new study from public health researchers provides the strongest evidence yet that increased exposure to a type of air pollution from tailpipes and smokestacks that's known as fine particulate mat...
us/Louisiana Activists Charged with Felonies After Delivering Box of Formosa Plastic Pollution to Lobbyists
By Julie Dermansky and Sharon Kelly
on
Two Louisiana environmental activists, Anne Rolfes and Kate McIntosh, were taken in handcuffs and leg irons from a Baton Rouge police station to jail after they voluntarily surrendered themselves o...
us/After a Legal Battle, Juneteenth Ceremony Honors Enslaved Ancestors at Gravesite on Formosa Plastics Land
By Julie Dermansky
on
“I feel like our ancestors are shouting and rejoicing in heaven about what we did for them today,” Sharon Lavigne, founder of RISE St. James, a community group fighting petrochemical plant construc...
us/Black Environmentalists Are Organizing to Save the Planet From Injustice
By Guest
on
By Rachel Ramirez, Grist. This story originally appeared in Grist and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate st...
us/Trump EPA’s Refusal to Strengthen Air Quality Standards Most Likely to Harm Communities of Color, Experts Say
By Dana Drugmand
on
In April, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist, proposed maintaining, rather than strengthening, national air quality standards for soot, ...
us/Formosa Plastics Opponents Ask Louisiana Governor to Veto Bill Over Harsh Sentencing Concerns
By Julie Dermansky and Sharon Kelly
on
On Friday, June 12, Louisiana's Democratic governor John Bel Edwards is expected to sign off on a piece of legislation, House Bill 197, that would make it a more serious crime to trespass on Louisi...
us/Chevron’s #BlackLivesMatter Hypocrisy
By Guest
on
The oil giant funds both civil rights groups and police, saying “Black Lives Matter” while committing acts of environmental racism all over the world. By Amy Westervelt. This story originally appe...
us/New Orleans Activists Call out Environmental Racism Alongside Police Brutality in Week of Protests
By Julie Dermansky
on
On June 3, just hours before New Orleans police tear-gassed a group protesting racial violence, Jesse Perkins, a Black veteran, called out the many shades of racism and violence his community faces...

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us/'The Cost of Plastics Is Lives': House Oversight Hearing Highlights Environmental Justice Burdens of Plastic Production
ByDana Drugmand
on

During a congressional hearing Tuesday, a plastics industry executive echoed a common refrain from the industry: “Plastic saves lives.” However, for many communities of color living in close proxi...
Series: Fracking for Plastics
Series: Fracking for Plastics
In the Shadow of Shuttered Philadelphia Refinery, Neighbors Recall Those Lost to Decades of Pollution
BySharon Kelly
on

The nation's oldest and largest gasoline refinery was closed following an explosion and fireball which rocked the majority Black neighborhood of South Philadelphia.

The nation's oldest and largest gasoline refinery was closed following an explosion and fireball which rocked the majority Black neighborhood of South Philadelphia.
Hand painted posters and murals of sunflowers and skulls remembering community members lost to pollution line a chainlink fence outside the PES Refinery.
us/‘Slam Dunk’ Study Finds Trump EPA’s Move Not to Tighten Air Pollution Standards Would Prematurely Kill 140,000 Americans
ByDana Drugmand
on

A new study from public health researchers provides the strongest evidence yet that increased exposure to a type of air pollution from tailpipes and smokestacks that's known as fine particulate mat...
us/Louisiana Activists Charged with Felonies After Delivering Box of Formosa Plastic Pollution to Lobbyists
ByJulie Dermansky and Sharon Kelly
on

Two Louisiana environmental activists, Anne Rolfes and Kate McIntosh, were taken in handcuffs and leg irons from a Baton Rouge police station to jail after they voluntarily surrendered themselves o...
Series: Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Communities at Risk
Series: Louisiana's Cancer Alley
us/After a Legal Battle, Juneteenth Ceremony Honors Enslaved Ancestors at Gravesite on Formosa Plastics Land
ByJulie Dermansky
on

“I feel like our ancestors are shouting and rejoicing in heaven about what we did for them today,” Sharon Lavigne, founder of RISE St. James, a community group fighting petrochemical plant construc...
Series: Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Communities at Risk
Series: Louisiana's Cancer Alley
us/Black Environmentalists Are Organizing to Save the Planet From Injustice
ByGuest
on

By Rachel Ramirez, Grist. This story originally appeared in Grist and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate st...
us/Trump EPA’s Refusal to Strengthen Air Quality Standards Most Likely to Harm Communities of Color, Experts Say
ByDana Drugmand
on

In April, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist, proposed maintaining, rather than strengthening, national air quality standards for soot, ...
us/Formosa Plastics Opponents Ask Louisiana Governor to Veto Bill Over Harsh Sentencing Concerns
ByJulie Dermansky and Sharon Kelly
on

On Friday, June 12, Louisiana's Democratic governor John Bel Edwards is expected to sign off on a piece of legislation, House Bill 197, that would make it a more serious crime to trespass on Louisi...
Series: Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Communities at Risk
Series: Louisiana's Cancer Alley
us/Chevron’s #BlackLivesMatter Hypocrisy
ByGuest
on

The oil giant funds both civil rights groups and police, saying “Black Lives Matter” while committing acts of environmental racism all over the world. By Amy Westervelt. This story originally appe...
us/New Orleans Activists Call out Environmental Racism Alongside Police Brutality in Week of Protests
ByJulie Dermansky
on

On June 3, just hours before New Orleans police tear-gassed a group protesting racial violence, Jesse Perkins, a Black veteran, called out the many shades of racism and violence his community faces...

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