Environment

"Today, the syndemic of environmental and racial injustice, and the novel coronavirus have brought into dramatic relief that exposure to fine particle air pollutants is making these same communities the epicenter of illness and disproportionate rates of death from Covid-19."

In the post-COVID era, as the Grantham Research Institute report concludes, “climate litigation may remain as important as ever.”

‘You cannot contaminate the global electrical circuit with millions of pulsed, modulated electronic signals without destroying all of life.’

This is the first time a federal judge has closed an operating pipeline for environmental reasons.

"EPA can no longer look the other way while states unlawfully exempt industrial polluters from vitally important air pollution control requirements.”

"Thanks to the courageous activists who stood up to them, they have failed."

“People, generations have died in South Philadelphia because of that oil refinery. The buck stops now. We will not allow another company to come in here and do what they did.”

"With the trees dying and the streams drying there is a recipe for disaster. Koalas are really on the brink of not surviving.”

Some environmental groups criticized the plan for lacking ambition and not directly targeting fossil fuel production.

This peer-reviewed study of air pollution impacts on older Americans suggests that current air qualitystandards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) do not protect public health, and that strengthening the standards could save over 140,000 American lives over a decade.