Tag: environmental racism
Trump’s EPA deepens environmental rollback with delays, deregulation, and industry favoritism
From coal ash delays to dicamba reapproval, Trump’s EPA faces backlash for gutting public health safeguards and empowering polluters.
Trump administration dismantles pollution protections and deletes public data as EPA...
Environmental groups sue over deletion of climate and justice tools while polluters receive fast-tracked exemptions from EPA oversight.
Federal judge blocks EPA’s enforcement of civil rights in environmental cases
"We are suffering, we are dying," said Mary Hampton of Concerned Citizens of St. John. "That's a hard thing to deal with."
EPA calls out environmental racism in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley
The Environmental Protection Agency said in a letter it sent last week to state regulators in response to civil rights complaints about air pollution in the region known as Cancer Alley.
‘Sacrifice zones’: How people of color are targets of environmental racism
A product of environmental racism, “sacrifice zones” are located near pollution hot spots and are usually communities of color.
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Iowa hospital custodian deported to Sierra Leone before judge ruled on stay request, advocates...
Fatou Traore held a 2011 order barring removal to her home country. Co-workers, her congresswoman and three bishops had asked for her release.
America’s Broken Promises, Iran’s Resolve, and the dangerous Game over the Strait of Hormuz
Iran is telling Washington that the age of expecting automatic concessions in exchange for ambiguous promises is over.
Clean energy finance passes fossil fuels for the first time, but little reaches low-income...
Oil Change International and Friends of the Earth U.S. report G20 and development bank clean energy finance averaged $52.7 billion a year from 2023 to 2025
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