environmental justice

‘Polluters Can No Longer Hide From Their Crimes’: Fossil Fuel Companies Owe $5.4 Trillion in Reparations, Study Says

‘Polluters Can No Longer Hide From Their Crimes’: Fossil Fuel Companies Owe $5.4 Trillion in Reparations, Study Says

The biggest fossil fuel companies in the world owe at least $209 billion in yearly climate reparations to communities that suffered the brunt of the calamities caused by the climate crisis, a new study has concluded. While substantial, the researchers consider theirs to be a conservative cost estimate, as it did not put a price […]

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    EPA to Fund Network of Centers to Help Marginalized Communities Access Environmental Justice Money

    EPA to Fund Network of Centers to Help Marginalized Communities Access Environmental Justice Money

    Days into his presidency, President Joe Biden signed Executive Order 14008, mandating that 40 percent of federal climate, environment and energy funding go towards disadvantaged communities that have been exposed to more than their fair share of pollution. But how will these communities actually access this money?  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Thursday […]

    ‘We Have No Other Home’: Alaska Tribes Sue to Stop Largest Pure Gold Mine

    ‘We Have No Other Home’: Alaska Tribes Sue to Stop Largest Pure Gold Mine

    If the Donlin Gold Mine is built as planned in Southwest Alaska, it would be the largest pure gold mine in the world. It would also lead to the filling of thousands of acres of wetlands, harm salmon and rainbow smelt and risk a catastrophic spill of 20 to 40 percent of the up to 568 million tons of toxic waste that could end up stored behind a 471-foot tailings dam.

    How Plastics Threaten Human Health From ‘Cradle to Grave’

    How Plastics Threaten Human Health From ‘Cradle to Grave’

    Plastics harm human health at all stages of the life cycle, a first-of-its-kind study has found.  The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health, published in the Annals of Global Health March 21, revealed the extent to which plastics harm those that interact with them, from the unique lung diseases suffered by coal miners to […]