By Ambika Chawla As a child growing up in Los Angeles, Erynn Castellanos would spend hours exploring her grandmother’s backyard garden, an oasis of greenery filled with oranges, sugarcane, yerba buena, guava and herbs. “Playing with my brother and cousins in my grandmother’s backyard, climbing the trees, and trying different fruits — those experiences made […]
By Isabella Garcia On Thanksgiving Day 2019, right after Caroline Laur had finished giving thanks for her home, a neighbor at church told her that a company had submitted permit requests to build an asphalt plant in their community. The plans indicated the plant would be 250 feet from Laur’s backdoor. Laur has a premalignant […]
If you lived in a community suffering from bad air quality in 1981, chances are your neighborhood hasn’t improved much. That’s the takeaway from a new study that found despite years of progress to improve air pollution, wealthy, white Americans are breathing much cleaner air than low-income communities of color, The Guardian reported. “Disadvantaged communities […]
By Yvette Cabrera This story was originally published on Grist on July 30, 2020 Fifteen years ago, Kamala Harris — San Francisco’s District Attorney at the time — created an environmental justice unit in her office. The goal was to go after the perpetrators of environmental crimes that were hurting some of the city’s poorest […]
The Sierra Club, long known for its environmental advocacy and its support of progressive organizations, has decided that it will no longer offer blind reverence to its founder John Muir, as The Washington Post reported. Muir, considered the “wilderness prophet,” “patron saint of the American wilderness” and “father of the national parks,” also espoused racist […]
By Sarah Thomas and Nathan Heffernan Fossil fuel companies have reaped millions of dollars in benefits from a stimulus package intended to help struggling Americans and the economy. Among these is Marathon Petroleum, the largest oil refiner in the country, which has a history of air pollution violations impacting low-income and Black and Brown communities. […]
When Jasmin Graham describes her research on smalltooth sawfish, a critically endangered ray with a unique “saw” at the front of its face, she explains how “nothing else looks like this in the ocean; those species evolved to do something no other shark or ray can do.” It resonates, and people understand why diversity matters […]
President Donald Trump announced the final rollback of the “Magna Carta” of U.S. environmental laws on Wednesday, The New York Times reported. The target of Trump’s latest rollback is the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which was signed into law by Richard Nixon 50 years ago, CNBC explained. It requires the federal government to consider […]
By Eoin Higgins Over 300 groups on Monday urged Senate leadership to reject a bill currently under consideration that would incentivize communities to sell off their public water supplies to private companies for pennies on the dollar. “This bill is an egregious handout to giant water corporations which would embolden them to manipulate and fleece […]
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