Tag: communities of color
“Voices being ignored”: Regulators fail to enforce water-pollution laws in communities...
"For communities already facing severe burdens due to racism, social conditions, and/or environmental and health hazards, the inability to turn on a tap and receive clean, safe water is particularly devastating—and unjust."
Intelligence thieves: How toxic pollutants are robbing communities of color
In her new book, author and ethicist Harriet Washington unearths one of the most overlooked aspects of environmental racism.
New study shows communities of color disproportionately affected by air pollution
“What this study shows is what communities of color across the region have long understood—that they are unfairly exposed to higher levels of pollution."
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Western monarch butterfly population reaches its highest number since 2000
“It is difficult to watch monarch butterflies and their extraordinary migration teeter on the edge of collapse, but there are signs of hope.”
Covering (up) antiwar protest in US media
The national press is a no show.
To hell and back
It is time to set in motion policies that would uplift veterans instead of pouring yet more staggering sums into a military that’s only sent so many of us to hell and back in this century?
US auctions giant stretch of Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling
Coming on the heels of the Willow decision, this certainly feels like another step backwards in the fight against climate change, which this administration has said is an existential threat.”
The defeat of a school voucher program reveals the truth within the ‘school choice’...
The momentum for education savings accounts is increasing across the country, and public education advocates say they will endanger neighborhood schools.