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EPA Releases $550M for Environmental Justice Grants

EPA Releases $550M for Environmental Justice Grants

The EPA  will disburse $550 million meant to boost efforts to address environmental inequities, the agency announced Thursday. The funds will be distributed among 11 entities, including large non-profits, tribal nations, and universities, that will in turn serve as grantmakers.

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    As Protests Rage Over George Floyd’s Death, Climate Activists Embrace Racial Justice

    As Protests Rage Over George Floyd’s Death, Climate Activists Embrace Racial Justice

    By Ilana Cohen, Evelyn Nieves, Judy Fahys, Marianne Lavelle, James Bruggers When New York Communities for Change helped lead a demonstration of 500 on Monday in Brooklyn to protest George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis, the grassroots group’s activism spoke to a long-standing link between police violence against African Americans and environmental justice. Elizabeth Yeampierre, executive […]

    ‘The Dam Builders Could Not Stop My Mother’ So They Killed Her

    ‘The Dam Builders Could Not Stop My Mother’ So They Killed Her

    By Salvador Edgardo Zuniga Cáceres It has been four months since the murder of environmental and Indigenous rights activist Berta Cáceres and her killers have still not been brought to justice. Instead, the violence continues—on July 7, another activist from Berta Cáceres‘ organization was abducted and killed. Berta Cáceres in 2015.Goldman Environmental Prize / Tim […]

    Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Sustainable Development

    Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Sustainable Development

    Following hundreds of years of oppression under colonial rule and decades as a pawn in a bipolar world, Africa has been left a damaged continent. Here Kumi Naidoo explains this historical context in which a new pan-African civil society initiative is developing, of which he is the start-up director. Over the past few years the […]